Israeli opposition leader rails against ‘multi-front war without strategy’
Al Jazeera
Yair Lapid says military ‘is stretched to the limit and beyond’ as Israeli forces wage attacks on Iran and Lebanon.
Israel’s main opposition leader Yair Lapid has warned that the war with Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon is taking too high a toll and accused the government of steering the country towards a “security disaster”.
The military “is stretched to the limit and beyond”, Lapid said late on Thursday in a video address, echoing a warning delivered a day earlier by military chief Eyal Zamir, according to leaked remarks from a security cabinet meeting.
“The government is sending the army into a multi-front war without a strategy, without the necessary means, and with far too few soldiers,” said Lapid, who is seen as a centrist figure in Israeli politics.
He has frequently criticised the government’s handling of war while still supporting Israel’s military campaigns in Gaza, Iran, Lebanon and elsewhere. Last month, he said he agreed with Israeli expansion as far as Iraq, and that his territorial takeover views for Israel are based on Zionist and biblical foundations.
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