Israel’s far-right minister says it is a “historic obligation” to eliminate the Iranian threat

Gantz left Netanyahu’s government in June over the lack of a post-war plan for Gaza, where the Israeli army has been engaged in a sweeping military campaign against Hamas militants since their attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.

Another opposition leader, Yair Lapid, also praised the attack but said the “decision not to attack strategic and economic targets in Iran was wrong.”

“We could have made Iran pay a much higher price,” he said.

For weeks, the country’s former prime minister, Naftali Bennett, used airways and social media to call for a decisive strike to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities, but remained silent in the immediate aftermath of the attack.

“We have the justification. We have the tools. With Hezbollah and Hamas paralyzed, Iran is exposed,” Bennett wrote a day after the October 1 barrage through Tehran.