Former National Security Council head Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror told Channel 7 that scaling back operations in Lebanon is an acceptable cost for achieving the strategic goal of halting Iran's nuclear advancement, amid an ongoing internal debate over military priorities.
Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror, former head of Israel's National Security Council, said in an interview with Channel 7 that de-escalation on the Lebanon front is a justified price to pay for preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. The remarks place Amidror on the side of the debate that prioritizes the Iranian threat over full-scale operations against Hezbollah, aligning with an evolving discussion among senior Israeli figures. As The Zioneer has reported in recent weeks, former defense minister Yoav Gallant, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, and former PM Ehud Barak have offered divergent views on the Lebanon-Iran strategic trade-off. Amidror's comment was a single interview clip and has not been independently corroborated by other outlets in the current batch.
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