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Friday, April 12, 2024
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Friday, April 12, 2024
Ehud Barak: Israel stronger than Iran but would have a hard time winning drawn-out war
Former prime minister Ehud Barak. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
Former prime minister Ehud Barak says Israel is stronger militarily than Iran, but would have a difficult time defeating the Islamic Republic in a drawn-out war.
Barak tells Channel 12 that Israel’s first prime minister David “Ben-Gurion set clear rules: Israel must not enter all-out war without a superpower at its side; Israel must always seek shorter wars [because] we don’t have the luxury of long wars; Israel must always hold the moral high ground. Those three lessons apply to this day. Netanyahu is ignoring all of them.”
