Yesh Atid chairman Gadi Eisenkot responded to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement, writing that “it would have been better for him to say ‘I was wrong, I set vain goals that I was not prepared to achieve.’ This would have given Netanyahu much more credit and respect from the people if he had admitted that he declared empty words and conducted consciousness campaigns.” Democrats chairman Yair Golan also addressed the statement and wrote on X: “Netanyahu, if you dedicated most of your life to fighting the Iranian threat and according to you we came a short distance from annihilation, then you failed in your life’s mission. We appreciate the honesty.”
