Ahead of party launch, ex-general Winter assails lack of decisiveness in war, urges mass emigration from Gaza

Hawkish former IDF general Ofer Winter, who is gearing up to launch a new party next week aimed at right-wingers disappointed with the current government, airs a video statement slamming the current war as indecisive and urging a change in Israel’s security policy.

“For three years, there has been a war here that, alongside big achievements, hasn’t yielded a decisive result on any front,” he says, urging a change from “reactiveness and rounds [of conflict] to initiative, decisiveness and victory.”

“You can’t send soldiers to a three-year war without ending it with victory,” he argues, decrying the endless reserve duty many have been called up for.

“There won’t be a decisive result without massive emigration by the Gazans. I will do everything in my power to insist on this. This is a historic opportunity that will maybe never repeat itself,” he contends.

He argues that the strategic and security conception that enabled Hamas’s October 7, 2023, onslaught “is still here, and we must stop this way of thinking right now.”

“So I believe we can achieve a decisive result — not over one another, but over the enemy,” he concludes.