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Liberman: Netanyahu government ‘incapable’ of victory over Iran or Hezbollah
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is “incapable” of achieving Israel victory over Iran or Hezbollah, asserts Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman.
Israel is “two-and-a-half years into the war and still all the fronts against Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah are open,” the opposition party leader tells reporters ahead of his party’s weekly faction meeting in the Knesset. Referring to the Hamas-led onslaught, he says, “The October 7 government is taking us back to the starting point.”
“Where is the ‘absolute victory’ against Hamas? We are seeing the same ‘absolute victory’ these days in the north as well. We must clearly redefine the goals of the war: overthrowing the regime in Iran and eliminating Hezbollah. This government is simply incapable of doing this,” he says.
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