The head of the opposition, Yair Lapid, at the annual international conference of the Institute for National Security Studies inss/Ronan Topelberg - the Institute for National Security Studies INSS
"The negotiations on the kidnap deal are not over.
The talks are continuing and have not exploded," US Ambassador to Israel Jack Lowe said today (Thursday) in INNS.
Minister Gadi Eisenkot, Commissioner Kobi Shabtai, former Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman, opposition leader Yair Lapid also spoke at the conference, which was held at the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv to mark the Iron Swords War.
Former Minister Tzipi Livni and Chief Reserve Officer, Brigadier General Benny Ben Ari.
US Ambassador Jack continued and addressed the issue of the abductees, "The break will increase the likelihood of a diplomatic solution in the North, of normalization with Saudi Arabia.
The hostage crisis must come to an end.
With each passing day it is harder to be optimistic.
The president is committed and pressing.
We are doing everything to keep the talks going.
The goal of an agreement until Ramadan is important."
Lou also referred to the day after the war: "There will have to be a task force to restore order to Gaza.
There must be an understanding that Hamas does not take command.
If the issue of the abductees is not resolved, I don't know how to put the rest of the puzzle together."
"A difficult campaign was imposed on us."
Minister Eisenkot/image processing, Yonatan Zindel/Flash 90
A member of the War Cabinet, Minister Izenkot, said at the conference that, "Victory over Hamas is the IDF and the security system's realization of the goals of the war and the improvement of Israel's strategic situation over time.
to return the abductees, destroy the military and governmental capabilities of Hamas and return the settlements to a safe environment.
It will take a long time.
I assume that in the short time, months, the first stage, the trees, will be reached in the fighting.
But the campaign will continue in our generation if I want to be optimistic and not talk about future generations."
"Unfortunately, we started thinking about the day after three-four months late.
The writing and the demand was in the first weeks, with the understanding that part of the victory over Hamas is building an alternative to the government.
The significance of imposing military rule in the Strip is very heavy, which will draw the IDF and the State of Israel into a black hole. We will not do it and it is better that we do not do it. Hamas will have to be replaced in the interim phase by three or four actors - an American umbrella with international regional capacity, Egyptian dominance and Israeli involvement."
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"The significance of imposing military rule on Gaza is very heavy."
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"Unequivocally, the task of returning the kidnapped Shabbat is the first in the order of priority. Without the return of the kidnapped Shabbat, there will not be a picture of victory but a long and lasting damage to the national resilience. This is a strategic necessity. We would not want to starve two million residents. Without a continuous and stable humanitarian response, the State of Israel will not be able to realize the The goals of the fighting, our good friends tell us that. Also the United States, which has mobilized in an unusual way."
"Hezbollah took advantage of the reality and the Iranians are running from behind. The campaign is broad. A difficult campaign was forced upon us. It is clear to me that the campaign in the north should end in one of two possibilities: that Hezbollah's cumulative loss balance will bring them to the realization of 1701. Nasrallah knows us well enough to know that what happens in the south will characterize what that is happening in Lebanon. We need to continue to exert an ever-increasing force in order to clarify the balance of losses and try to reach an arrangement in the near future that will change the reality that will be to the north of the litany, that the UN receives a bite-sized mandate, that the Lebanese army deploys instead of Hezbollah.
I would like to mention that in 2018-2019 Hezbollah was close to a move similar to that of Hamas.
There were three tunnel routes that penetrated Metula and Shlomi, with the intention of penetrating the Galilee.
We located and thwarted it.
There should be a significant change in our perception of security.
If it doesn't help, there will be no choice but to use force with the intensity and timing we decide on."
"The great failure of October 7 is strategic, not tactical."
Opposition leader Yair Lapid/Official website, Israel Institute for Defense Studies
"Israel needs to forge a regional alliance that includes the moderate Sunni countries in the face of the Iranian threat - that will manage the Gaza Strip," stated opposition leader Yair Lapid today, when asked about the "day after" in the Gaza Strip. "We are talking about four or five years from now because Gaza is not standing On its own," Lapid assessed at the annual conference of the Institute for National Security Studies. "There won't be a Palestinian state in the coming years either, but a political process needs to start.
The Palestinian Authority can be part of the solution, but it needs to prove to us that it is not part of the threat.
The authority failed in trying to create a positive leadership, this will probably have to happen with a different leadership.
It would be correct to conduct a policy towards Gaza and the West Bank together."
"There was something improbable in the reaction of some of the public to October 7 who said that there must not be a Palestinian state, but the fact that they say they are afraid of creating the possibility of building the next October 7 is clear," added Lapid. The solution He is parting," Lapid claimed.
"The great failure of October 7 is strategic, not tactical. Neither the suitcases of money nor workers. They tried to manage the conflict without solving it, it failed completely," continued Lapid, noting five months into the war.
"On October 7, the two great theories of Israeli society failed: that the left, who should be given more, will sign a piece of paper and then the conflict will end, and in a much more serious way, the idea that the conflict can be managed without resolving it failed."
"For a deal and to remove Ben Gabir from the cabinet, I was ready to enter. But there is nothing to talk about."
Opposition leader Yair Lapid/photo processing, Reuven Castro
"I told the prime minister in private and in public - take out the extremists and for a kidnapping deal we will come in and give you a safety net," he said.
"In my eyes, it's a horrible idea, that after October 7 he will have a coalition of a hundred Knesset members that will give him legitimacy. For a deal and to remove Ben Gabir from the cabinet, I would be ready. But there is nothing to talk about, he is only interested in his political survival."
He also added that the conclusions of the commission of inquiry into the Miron disaster are "a reminder that it is necessary as soon as possible for all members of the government to demand a commission of inquiry for October 7. The report that came out deals with children who died and the ruling party decides to turn this also into a right-left war. They accused me of bringing close associates to the committee, as if they They don't know that only the top of it. It's all about poisoning the air."
"Right now we have one cabinet that decided to bring trucks into Gaza and the second cabinet sent protesters to Kerem Shalom and then the first cabinet coordinated with the Americans the delivery of aid to Gaza to bypass the interference of the great cabinet. We are in a completely crazy event of a government that has no policy."
"We were of the opinion that with intensification we do not go to war."
Head of the Shin Bet Nadav Argaman / Shin Bet
Former Shin Bet chief Nadav Argman took the stage after the torch and opened his remarks with a reminder that Iran has become a nuclear threshold state: "We are surrounded by its metastases from all sides - Hezbollah in the north, militias in Iraq and Syria, Hutim in Yemen, and Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza and the West Bank.
This is a result of the lack of a political strategy in Israel.
This is the result of the combined strategies of Israel against the Palestinian Authority and Hamas against the Palestinian Authority."
"The first problem - was the perception that the State of Israel is buying peace even at a very high price for the future.
Israel has become addicted to silence.
Qatari money served the same purpose," explained Argamani. "Some will say in order to give an advantage in dealing with the Iranian nuclear issue, some will say that due to the lack of a strategy, I think the problem begins with the lack of understanding of what Hamas is as a terrorist organization, what its motivations and capabilities are.
If we had harmed the organization's leadership from then until today, we could have changed reality.
We did not do the deed even though we could have harmed the Hamas movement more than once and twice.
We could have changed reality at a much lower cost than today"
"The second problem is that Israel treated Hezbollah and Hamas as states and not terrorist organizations.
In both places we knew about the intensification and we were of the opinion that with intensification we do not go to war.
Today the situation is intolerable and will cost us much more than if we had hurt them before.
Yahya Sinwar lives because the State of Israel decided not to go on an adventure in the Gaza Strip.
I don't know what the prime minister's considerations are, I brought it up more than once and twice, Ronan brought it up after me.
The strategy that Israel has chosen for itself is to crash into walls and then say there is a problem.
We were dragged.
If we had launched a surprise attack against Hamas, we would have been in a completely different reality."
"Israel bought peace even at a very high price for the future."
Head of the Shin Bet Nadav Argaman/Flash 90, Hadas Proosh/Flash 90
"What is called 'the conception' has taken over the mind. This is an event that neuroscientists should deal with. Anyone who thinks that Hamas is deterred sees a picture and analyzes it in a certain way," argued Argamani.
"Unfortunately, there were those in the system who thought that Hamas was deterred. In my eyes, he never was, according to the intelligence I saw, like Hezbollah was not. It was clear to me that Hamas was not deterred," he added.
"Our operational worldview had to be under the assumption that the world would be surprised."
Argamani sided with Lapid's words, "The Palestinian Authority is not a body that encourages terrorism, with which we will have to do business. It has many problems, but this is the factor that needs to be done in order for it to take the reins in Gaza," he said.
"I am still optimistic. The people of Israel deserve to be in a different place and for that to happen we need to replace the disastrous government. There is no other choice. It is the main failure that prevents us from creating a different future in Gaza, which prevents us from creating a coalition led by Americans and with Sunni participation against Iran."
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