The Israeli media focused on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement that the mini-security council had agreed to an American-brokered ceasefire with Lebanon. While politicians opposed the agreement and considered it a surrender, analysts and journalists welcomed it, and said that there were political and military circumstances that prompted signing it, with all its negatives and loopholes, as they described it.
Kan 11 political affairs correspondent, Suleiman Maswad, said, “There are not only political, but operational (military) circumstances that prompt the signing of this agreement. We are entering the winter season, and for quite some time the United States has not been supplying Israel with all the ammunition it requests. There is a broad arms export ban.”
Army Radio’s military affairs correspondent, Doron Kadush, described the agreement as “bad and that it contains drawbacks and loopholes,” but said that they in the army are demanding the agreement.
However, the Israeli correspondent explained, “There are positives in the immediate term regarding ammunition and the issue of reserve soldiers who collapse under the pressure of military service and are no longer able to bear it. In addition, there is a need to focus efforts on the Gaza Strip and recover the kidnapped.”
For his part, Channel 13 military affairs analyst, Alon Ben David, explained that the security system acknowledges that the agreement with Lebanon “is not an ideal agreement, but from the beginning the army did not claim that it would eliminate the military power of Hezbollah, because that would mean occupying all of Lebanon.” .
As for the former head of the Military Intelligence Division, Amos Malka, he said that the war in Lebanon could end in three ways. The first is: “with the proposed agreement, the second with a security belt, and the third with a war until the last breath in an attempt – as National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said – to erase “Hezbollah.”
He pointed out that the third possibility is out of the question, “because it will be a different war, and I do not think we have international support, and I do not think we have military plans for that.”
Moshe Saada, a member of the Knesset from the Likud Party, commented on the issue of the agreement with Lebanon, saying: “The situation is very complicated, and there are threats to ban the supply of weapons to us, and there are threats of UN resolutions against Israel.”
As for the head of the “Israel Our Home” party, Avigdor Lieberman, he said, “This is a short ceasefire for 5 or 6 years, until the Fourth Lebanon War breaks out,” noting that in 5 or 6 years, “they will have 40,000 aircraft in Baalbek (Hezbollah). march”.
For his part, Yair Golan, the leader of the opposition Democrats party and a former deputy chief of staff, described the agreement as “an interim agreement with a clear justification, and we arrived at it with a very exhausted army.”
It is noteworthy that the ceasefire agreement between Hezbollah and Israel entered into force at 4:00 AM today, Wednesday, Beirut time (2:00 GMT), ending the military confrontations that erupted since October 8, 2023.
