Opposition Leader Yair Lapid says disputes between the prime minister and the IDF chief of staff must remain behind closed doors, after Hebrew media reported last night that IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir opposes Benjamin Netanyahu’s push to occupy Gaza.
“I also had arguments with the IDF chief of staff, as foreign minister, and as prime minister. Some of them were not simple. Only one thing was clear to us: they need to stay behind closed doors,” Lapid writes on X.
“IDF soldiers don’t need to think that a divided and conflicted leadership is leading them, that the political echelon does not respect their commander, that they are selling them out for a headline,” he writes.
Lapid also says there is an “operational price” for the leaks of the arguments, charging that the IDF chief of staff will prevent himself from saying everything he thinks if he knows they will make it to the press.
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