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Yair Golan: Netanyahu solely to blame for Hamas’s ability to rebuild itself in Gaza
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"
The Democrats chief Yair Golan accuses Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of having “mismanaged” the war in Gaza, asserting that “it could have been won more effectively and much faster.”
Addressing a conference organized by the Institute for National Security Studies, Golan says that “the same government that failed on October 7 has also failed in its management of the war and continues to fail by not translating military achievements into a political resolution.”
“Wars are not won through military action alone, a war is a national effort that must be concluded with a political, diplomatic, and civil process that provides a solution. The fact that Hamas was able to rebuild itself in Gaza is solely Netanyahu’s fault. We did not invest a single moment of effort in preventing this, and as a result, we now find ourselves in this disgraceful situation,” he asserts.
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