According to the Guardian newspaper, Barak said: “The… Israel “It has an urgent, even necessary, need to respond, and I believe that no sovereign nation on Earth can fail to respond.”
The former Prime Minister, who also served as Defense Minister, Foreign Minister and Chief of Army Staff, said: “A model Israeli response It can be seen in retaliatory airstrikes carried out against Houthi-controlled oil facilities, power plants and docks in the Yemeni port of Hodeidah.
He added: “I think we may see something like this. It could be a massive attack, and it could be repeated more than once.”
US President Joe Biden said on Thursday that there are discussions in Washington about a possible Israeli attack on… Oil sector Iran, but did not provide any details or clarify whether the United States would support such an attack.
Barak added that there are also suggestions in Israel that it is necessary to exploit this opportunity to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities, but he indicated that this would not significantly delay the Iranian program.
When Barak served as Minister of Defense from 2007 to 2013, during the era of both Ehud Olmert Benjamin Netanyahu was among the strongest supporters of bombing Iranian nuclear facilities, and he failed to convince Presidents George Bush and then Barack Obama to contribute American military force to the campaign.
On Wednesday, Biden followed Obama’s lead in expressing his opposition to any Israeli strikes against Iranian nuclear sites.
Now Barak himself acknowledges that Iran’s nuclear program is so advanced that no bombing campaign could significantly hamper it.
While Barak believes that the major Israeli military response to… Iranian military attack Tuesday night is now inevitable and justified, it confirms that the drift into a regional war could have been avoided much earlier, if only… Benjamin Netanyahu He is open to a plan promoted by the United States to mobilize Arab support for a Palestinian government to replace Hamas after the war in Gaza.
