by Shane Trejo, Big League Politics:

On September 8, 2024, Israeli opposition leader and head of the National Unity party, Benny Gantz, declared that the state of Israel should “concentrate” on directly confronting Shia militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon.

“We have enough forces to deal with Gaza and we should concentrate on what is going on in the north,” Gantz remarked. He noted that Iran and its “proxies” are “the real issue.”

“The time of the north has come and actually I think we are late on this,” he continued.

He also contended that Israel’s rapid evacuation of tens of thousands of settlers from Israel’s northern border with Lebanon was a mistake.