On video: Matan Vilnai: The IDF is under attack from the political echelon, there is no greater act of treason than this 03.21.24/without
Against the background of the possibility of an Israeli response after the attack on Saturday night, the question arises as to how it will be carried out, and whether the decision will be coordinated with the United States and the other coalition members that helped stop the launch of the missiles. Major General (res.) Matan Vilnai, former Deputy Minister of Defense and Deputy Chief of Staff and Chairman of the Commanders' Movement for Israel's Security, explained on 103FM what his opinion is on the matter.
"Should Israel react at any cost?", the pair of presenters wondered, and Vilnai answered emphatically: "Definitely no, absolutely not. We need to choose the right time, we need to notice that first of all our strategy fails time and time again. We thought we were deterring Hamas, we were wrong, we are deterring Iran? We were wrong. We need to re-examine this strategy," he declared.
Vilnai went on to emphasize that "the government is responsible for the strategy. I want common sense, to define what our goals are, a strategy. The government evades it all the time, relies all the time on the army. The army acted that night in an extraordinary way, salute them. We must always go to the basics, Wall plan, Prime Minister Rabin in the nineties, after the Gulf War, makes this statement - the plan is reflected in the Motzash. The second thing is the outline of Biden and the regional space, the cooperation with moderate Arab countries, the peace with Jordan, which this government is doing everything to destroy.
" that the most important issue currently facing Israel in the war in Gaza is our abductees. Hamas is not being destroyed, they are hurting it badly, breaking its military power, its governmental power, the army did it effectively."
In conclusion, he clarified: "The army acted excellently, the army failed on October 7th, it admits that it failed, it will investigate it, study the This, the leadership of the chief of staff is worthy in every respect that he does. The army has proven itself very well in the fighting in Gaza, there is no doubt about it at all. But I would have entered Rafah from the beginning."