Lapid: ‘Israel can’t conduct a war if a majority of the public doesn’t stand behind it’

3 August 2025, 7:50 am

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Opposition Leader Yair Lapid on the plenum floor of the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 23, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid says that the majority of the Israeli public no longer supports the war in Gaza, and therefore, it must end.

“There has always been one necessary condition for Israel’s wars: a majority. The State of Israel can’t conduct a war if a majority of the public doesn’t stand behind it, does not believe in its goals, and does not trust the leadership,” he writes on X.

“Not one of these conditions exists now. The time has come for the end of the war and to bring back the hostages,” he writes.