🇮🇱Netanyahu Blasts Defense Minister For 'Anti-Israel' Comments
The Israeli Prime Minister responded to comments by Defense Minister Gallant critical of Netanyahu's calls for 'absolute victory'
The Office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated the call for “absolute victory” against Hamas following critical remarks regarding such a strategy by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, the Times of Israel reported on 12 August.
Defense Minister Gallant took a jab at Prime Minister Netanyahu during a Knesset committee discussion about Israel’s response to the ongoing fighting against Hezbollah along the northern border with Lebanon.
“I hear all the heroes with the war drums, the ‘absolute victory’ and this gibberish,” he said during a meeting of Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
Gallant made the statement after he was asked why Israel has not initiated a full-scale war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, adding, “The conditions today for war in Lebanon are unlike those at the beginning of the war [last October].”
A short time later, the Prime Minister’s Office releated a statement titled: “Gallant is bound by ‘absolute victory,’ too.”
