The Israeli attack in Iran has drawn both criticism and applause at home from across the political spectrum
Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir, who criticized Israel’s restrained response to the Iranian attack in April, wrote a more positive post on his X account this time, saying that the strike “was a good beginning in order to target Iran’s strategic assets, which needs to be the next phase.” He added, “We have a historic duty to remove the Iranian threat.”
The attack was also praised by opposition leader Yair Golan, head of the Israeli Labor Party, for “harming Iran’s defensive and offensive capabilities without dragging us into a war of attrition.”
However, the strike was criticized for not inflicting serious damage to either Iranian economics by striking oil reserves or to Iran’s nuclear program.