TEL AVIV.- The prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, He began the electoral campaign of his Likud party this Thursday, facing the elections legislative elections at the end of October, with a speech focused on security challenges.
He insisted that he and his party “are the only ones capable of guaranteeing Israel’s security.”
In that sense, Netanyahu listed the Israeli military operations that have been carried out in Iran, Lebanon, Syria and the Gaza Strip since 2023.
He expressed: “The mission must be completed, we must overthrow the Iranian regime and totally destroy Hezbollah and Hamas.”
He also accused his internal rivals of wanting to make “territorial concessions.” “We took territory, instead of giving it up,” he said, speaking of troops deployed in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza.
The prime minister is at the head of the most right-wing government in the history of Israel, has several open fronts and intensified colonization in the occupied West Bank with more settlements, which are considered illegal under international law.
Close elections
Opinion polls indicate that the October 27 election is likely to be close.
The bloc of Netanyahu and his far-right and ultra-Orthodox allies faces that of his main rival, the centrist Gadi Eisenkot, supported by parties of the right and left.
Netanyahu is questioned in Israel for his government’s failure to prevent the October 7, 2023 attack, led by the Palestinian group Hamas, the deadliest in the country’s history and which triggered the war in Gaza.
Reckonings
Benjamin Netanyahu also ratified this Thursday his intention to “settle scores” with those involved in the attacks of October 7, 2023. He pointed out that “no one is immune.”
He stressed that Israeli forces will “defeat the Iranian regime” and “bring down” the Lebanese Shiite militia party Hezbollah.
“We are settling scores with the murderers who killed our people, our daughters, our women and our children on October 7 (2023),” he said in a statement published by his office on social networks.
He added: “We are settling scores with those who still remain. There are not many, because we are taking care of them.”
