Former Israeli Deputy Chief of Staff Yair Golan attacked Benjamin Netanyahu’s government because of what he described as its “lying approach” in the war on Gaza, calling for concluding an agreement with Hamas to end the war.
Golan said in an interview with Maariv newspaper, “The current lying approach means that our citizens will not return to their homes on the border,” and “it means that we will continue to live in a threatened country.”
The former military commander held the government responsible for the “lack of clarity of the war’s objectives,” considering that “Israel waging a war in which its best sons are sacrificed without military objectives is shocking.”
He believed that the problem with the current ground operation is that the political level does not clarify the goals of the war, describing Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant’s death threats to the head of the Hamas movement in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, as “stupid and unnecessary statements.”
no escape
The former Deputy Chief of Staff believed that the political leadership must tell the truth to its people and delay the elimination of Hamas for years. He considered that Hamas is the only one capable of releasing detainees, stressing that “there is no escape from reaching an agreement with Hamas, and not with any other actor.”
While he acknowledged that the current war has harmed the Palestinian movement, he stressed at the same time that the most important question is that related to what comes after the war.
Golan told Maariv newspaper that it is impossible for them to ignore that the war began with a crushing failure for Israel, even if they got rid of Sinwar.
Since last October 7, the Israeli army has been waging a devastating war on Gaza that, as of yesterday evening, Saturday, left 20,258 martyrs, 53,688 wounded – most of them children and women – massive destruction of infrastructure and an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, according to the Gaza Strip authorities and the United Nations.