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March 12, 2024

Time Is Not on Israel’s Side

The message to Benny Gantz from the U.S. and the UK: finish the job.

While Hamas’s interests may be served by dragging out the war, Israel’s would be served by hastening its end—not through a ceasefire, but through victory. That, argues Seth Mandel, is the lesson Benny Gantz, the leader of Israel’s National Unity party and a member of the post-October 7 unity government, should take away from his recent visit to London and Washington. The favored candidate to replace Prime Minister Netanyahu in the event of an election, Gantz seems to have believed he could garner more sympathy for Israel than Netanyahu. Instead, he got lectures from Kamala Harris as well as from the British foreign minister David Cameron and prime minister Rishi Sunak. Mandel writes:

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