PNN – A member of Israel’s war cabinet has made important confessions about the impossibility of the complete defeat of Hamas in Gaza.
According to Pakistan News Network, Gadi Eisenkot, a member of Israel’s war cabinet, has described the idea of ​​a complete victory over Hamas as unrealistic and “storytelling” in a statement criticizing the way Benjamin Netanyahu is conducting the war.
In an interview with Channel 12 of Israel TV, Eisenkot, like “Ehud Barak”, the former prime minister of the regime, called for early elections in occupied Palestine.
He said in this interview: “Anyone who talks about the complete defeat of [Hamas] is not telling the truth. That is why we should not tell stories… Today the situation in Gaza is such that our war goals have not yet been achieved.”
According to The Times of Israel, Eysenkot’s interview was broadcast on Thursday hours after Benjamin Netanyahu promised “complete victory over Hamas” in a speech and rejected the idea of ​​leaving power before the end of the war.
While many analysts say that Israel has so far failed to achieve its war goals in Gaza, Netanyahu said yesterday: “We will eliminate the evil of Hamas.”
The Prime Minister of Israel also said: “Israel under my leadership will not give up on achieving a decisive victory against Hamas, and this cannot be doubted.”
He continued: “We will continue to fight with all our forces until we achieve our goals through military action. “Stopping the war before we achieve our goals will harm Israel for generations to come.”
The National Unity Party headed by Gadi Eisenkot agreed to join Netanyahu’s war cabinet after the October 7 attacks by Hamas against the Israeli regime.
On October 7th, the Islamic resistance movement of Palestine, Hamas, in response to more than seven decades of occupation of Palestine and nearly two decades of siege of Gaza and imprisonment and torture of thousands of Palestinians, started the operation known as “Al-Aqsa Storm”.
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This operation was one of the deadliest attacks against this regime. Hamas fighters penetrated into the occupied territories through the border fences at several points, attacked the villages and besides killing a large number of Israelis, captured a number of them.
In response to this operation, the Zionist regime launched heavy attacks against Gaza and put this area under complete siege. Despite this, as analysts say, the al-Aqsa storm operation has imposed a major security-political defeat on Israel.
The authorities of the Israeli regime have declared their military goal in this war to destroy Hamas. Meanwhile, many analysts have questioned the possibility of realizing this goal, even in occupied Palestine.
Asked if current Israeli officials were telling the truth, Eisenkot said, “No.” He then criticized Benjamin Netanyahu for not accepting responsibility for the October 7 intelligence, military and security failure.
Eisenkot said: “I am now at the stage and age to look at this leader or that leader with closed eyes. “I judge them based on their decisions and the way they lead the country.”
Eysenkot noted that failures in the chain of command “do not absolve him of responsibility.” His comments are likely referring to Netanyahu’s statement that security officials did not warn him about the impending attack by Hamas. Netanyahu also claimed that all security officials had assured him that Hamas had been contained.
Eisenkot also criticized Netanyahu for not having a plan for Gaza after the end of the war. “You have to show leadership in being able to tell people the truth and in drawing a roadmap,” he said.
He said: “The objectives of the war have not yet been achieved, while the number of soldiers who are now in the field has become more limited… We need to think about the next step.”
Eisenkot also said that early elections are needed in the coming months to reassess public confidence in the Israeli cabinet.
He stated: “It is necessary to bring the Israeli voters to the polls in the next few months to restore their trust because there is no trust now.”
Eysenkot’s request for early elections coincides with the note of “Ehud Barak”, the former prime minister of Israel, in the Ha’aretz magazine, who also made the same request.
In that note, the former prime minister of Israel also pointed to the despair and frustration of the residents of occupied Palestine and wrote: “In Israel, we are witnessing despair and the feeling that despite the achievements of the Israeli army, Hamas has not been defeated and the chances of returning the hostages are decreasing.”
Eisenkot also criticized Netanyahu and said: “The country of Israel as a democracy should ask itself after these serious events, how do we want to continue with leaders who have failed us so shamefully?”
In response to Netanyahu’s claim that holding elections in the middle of the war will harm public unity, he said: “The public’s lack of trust in his government is no less important.”
In another part of this interview, Eisenkot claimed that on October 11, Israel was on the verge of attacking Hezbollah, but he and Benny Gantz were able to convince the members of the war cabinet not to do so for now.
“I think our presence there prevented us from committing a glaring strategic error,” he said.
He stated: “If a decision was made to attack Lebanon, we would have realized Yahya Sinwar’s strategic vision of creating a regional war.”