Yair Golan is an Israeli politician who leads the Democrats, a left-of-centre coalition formed last year. He was a major general and deputy chief of staff of the Israel Defence Forces.
It is 17 months since the Hamas attack on October 7. In your assessment, has Israel achieved its objectives vis-à-vis Gaza and Hamas? What could it have done differently?
Almost everything could have been done differently. Militarily, the war has gone on for too long. The fighting in Gaza could have been more effective and quicker. The land phase of the war in the north started too late. But with all that, Israel has made great achievements concerning the geopolitical spectrum of the Middle East.
