{"id":146708,"date":"2026-06-05T14:06:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T14:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/146708\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T14:06:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T14:06:29","slug":"barak-slams-netanyahus-lebanon-strategy-utter-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/146708\/","title":{"rendered":"Barak Slams Netanyahu\u2019s Lebanon Strategy: \u2019Utter Failure\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Barak<\/a><\/p>\n

Islam Times – Former “Israeli” Prime Minister Ehud Barak sharply criticized the “Israeli” occupation entity\u2019s Lebanon policy, calling it an \u201cutter failure\u201d and accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of prioritizing political survival over national security.In a searing op-ed for Haaretz, Barak painted a grim picture of the ongoing war, stating that the “Israeli” occupation forces [IOF] are \u201cfighting with their hands tied\u201d to maintain a security “buffer zone” and warning that the failure to counter drone threats years after they first emerged constitutes a \u201cshameful failure”.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe army is fighting with its hands tied to maintain a security belt that keeps anti-tank missiles away from targeting settlements and makes it difficult for drones to move; the failure to find a solution to confront them, years after they appeared, is a shameful failure,\u201d Barak wrote.<\/p>\n

He noted that developing solutions to these threats \u201cwill take many long weeks, and even then, they will be costly and partial.\u201d<\/p>\n

The nearly daily toll, he added, \u201cwhich is permitted for publication, and the constant danger to soldiers in the field, are causing feelings of deep frustration among field commanders and the public.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barak directly challenged Netanyahu\u2019s previous claims of victory, writing, \u201cA year and a half has passed since the ceasefire that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced, after which he said he had set Hezbollah back decades\u2026 What hollow arrogance.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Barak, all the so-called \u201cachievements\u201d, including the terrorist pager attack, the targeting of martyr Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and other commanders, and strikes on the Radwan Force, missile systems, and their operators, \u201chave evaporated as if they never were.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under the leadership of Sheikh Naim Qassem, \u201cwho was marketed to the public as a helpless man,\u201d Barak argued, Hezbollah remains \u201calive and kicking,” striking the Israeli military and northern settlements and showing no sign of collapse or willingness to disarm.<\/p>\n

\u201cSummarizing the situation in Lebanon from the prime minister\u2019s perspective in one word: failure. In two words: absolute failure,\u201d Barak wrote.<\/p>\n

Barak further warned against \u201cdangerous illusions\u201d, specifically the linkage between \u201celiminating Hezbollah once and for all\u201d and \u201cremoving constraints in Lebanon,\u201d stating that destroying Hezbollah would require a full occupation of Lebanon, \u201cwhich is utterly impractical.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe illusion that military pressure will eliminate Hezbollah and that only loss of territory will convince it to lay down its arms, leading to a policy of leveling land in villages and towns as in Gaza, is foolishness,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

In a striking passage, Barak argued that destroying villages \u201crestores legitimacy to what Hezbollah insists on, that it is the only force protecting Lebanon from Israel. In doing so, we are helping Hezbollah in its struggle against the Lebanese government and its domestic opponents. We are helping it, not harming it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barak accused Netanyahu of having \u201crepeatedly failed opportunities for political paths on the Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria fronts\u201d due to \u201cconsiderations of Netanyahu\u2019s political and personal survival.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that settlers \u201chave been abandoned by a fossilized government, which repeatedly succumbs to Haredi extortion and gives priority to settlement in the West Bank,\u201d noting that northern settlers understand that the 13 billion shekels promised to them \u201cis nothing but ink on paper.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barak concluded his article with a blunt assessment, \u201cThere is no chance of progress until Netanyahu is removed from his chair.\u201d \n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Islam Times – Former “Israeli” Prime Minister Ehud Barak sharply criticized the “Israeli” occupation entity\u2019s Lebanon policy, calling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[47597,27044,3758,592,47596,2415,14433,16836,47598,47599,32365,30149,598,2412,3887,93,4100,1284,876,31352,13359,591,7660,8741,5975,4106,47600,443,20924,20919,1157,47601,596,599],"class_list":["post-146708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lebanon","tag-utter","tag-accusing","tag-an","tag-and","tag-barak","tag-benjamin","tag-calling","tag-criticized","tag-ehud","tag-entitys","tag-failure","tag-former","tag-islam","tag-israeli","tag-it","tag-lebanon","tag-minister","tag-national","tag-netanyahu","tag-netanyahus","tag-occupation","tag-of","tag-over","tag-policy","tag-political","tag-prime","tag-prioritizing","tag-security","tag-sharply","tag-slams","tag-strategy","tag-survival","tag-the","tag-times"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116697890415939215","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}