Defence minister Yoav Gallant and military chief Benny Gantz have challenged prime minister to come up with decisive strategy for ending war
With his emergency war cabinet on the brink of disintegrating over what opponents view as his dithering prosecution of Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip, Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been challenged to make some stark choices by his two main partners in running the military campaign.
More broadly, they have called on him to stop appeasing his hardline political allies at the expense of any semblance of national consensus, even as he continues to send Israeli soldiers into battle.
“Gantz’s problem is that he can’t alone produce a war and postwar strategy, pressure Netanyahu to come up with one or create enough pressure to bring down the current Israeli government,” said Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Some critics saw Gantz’s move as too hesitant, calling into question his credentials as an electable alternative to Netanyahu.
Gantz left the parliamentary opposition in October out of a sense of national responsibility, he said at the time, and joined the war cabinet as one of its three principal members, along with Netanyahu and Gallant.
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