brigadier general Ofer Winter Closes accounts and today (Tuesday) harshly attacked the IDF and the defense establishment. In an article he wrote for “Ether Kitsot” he claimed that “the defense establishment’s diagnosis of the strategic problem facing the State of Israel in the war is wrong. The way it chose to handle the problem and the operational moves the IDF has made so far, not only did not solve the problem, but brought Israel to a much worse situation than the one it was in when the war broke out.”
“Sinwar, receives the global status of a kind of modern Saladin, from the very fact that Israel is negotiating with him for an agreement that will return the men and women he kidnapped. In the eyes of the Arabs, the Israelis, despite all their symbols of power, suffered a humiliating blow. They used all the support” All the fighting, but they failed to bring Hamas to a situation where it asks for a ceasefire, and certainly not for its destruction,” added Brigadier General Winter. “The Israelis provide the Gazans and Hamas with generous humanitarian supplies, putting legal restrictions on themselves and therefore are unable to exercise their true power,” he added.
Documentation of IDF forces in the Rafah region of the Gaza Strip – Iron Swords (Photo: IDF Spokesperson)
Also, Winter will monitor the conduct of the security system in the other sectors as well. “Lebanon is not deterred and deepens its attacks against Israel. Iran fired directly at Israel, which according to the Iranians, ‘only continues to threaten’. In the international arena – Israel is the one that is isolated.”
“It is in no way enough to hit the Hamas brigades with heavy blows, nor to dismantle its military capabilities. Gaza must become an example and a joke in the mouth of the entire world, and Hamas must be eradicated – without any military or leadership governmental ability at all,” clarified Winter. “The outcome of the campaign in Gaza has a direct impact on all the moves in the various sectors. If we are living things, we must achieve a clear and overwhelming decision in Gaza. Only in this way will the leg of deterrence currently lacking in Israel’s national security be restored,” he wrote.
