Eizenkot and Golan blast Netanyahu’s statement on Iran

Yisrael! chairman Gadi Eizenkot sharply criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks, saying it would have been better if he had admitted, “I erred, and I raised false goals I was not prepared to achieve.” Eizenkot argued that Netanyahu would have earned “much more credit and respect from the people” had he acknowledged that he had delivered empty words and staged psychological maneuvers.

Democrats chairman Yair Golan also responded to Netanyahu’s statement in a post on X. Golan wrote that if Netanyahu had devoted most of his life to fighting the Iranian threat and, by his own account, Israel had come “a short distance from annihilation,” then he had failed “in the mission of his life.” Golan ended his post with, “We appreciate the honesty.”

The comments were made in response to Netanyahu’s public statement, but the article does not specify further details about the original remarks. Both opposition figures framed their criticism around Netanyahu’s handling of the Iranian threat and his responsibility for the messaging he used.