A senior government official today (Tuesday) criticized the statement by the new IDF spokesman, Efi Dufferin, which was published after the air force attack on Sana'a, Yemen.
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The IDF statement said that "the operation was approved by the Air Force Commander and the Chief of Staff" - but the political source claimed that this was a mistake, and that decisions on operations of this type are made at a different level.
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""The IDF spokesman was confused again," political commentator Amit Segal quoted the senior official as saying. "The one who approves military operations is the Prime Minister and the political echelon, not the Chief of Staff and the Air Force Commander.".
This is the second incident in less than a day in which the IDF spokesman is "confused.".
Last night, Dufferin contradicted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's words, when he said that the ultimate goal of the operation in the Gaza Strip is the return of the kidnapped.
Dufferin said: "We believe that the action we are taking is the best method to implement the strategy determined by the political echelon. The goals of the war are the return of the hostages and the overthrow of the Hamas regime.".
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir responded to him last night: "IDF spokesman, you are again confused by thinking that the army is above the political echelon. In a democracy, it works differently: the political echelon decides, and the army executes. The highest and first goal is to overthrow Hamas, and only through it can we safely return the kidnapped. Failure to achieve this goal first and foremost will, God forbid, lead to many more murders and kidnappings in the future. This is what the political echelon has decided - even if you don't like it.".
