Hebrew → English transcript

Every war must have objectives, goals that are attainable,

that you have the means and the staying power to carry out,

and a political picture of what you want at the end. That thing was missing.

But is it a reasonable goal,

a practical one, to say we will not end this war without 450 kilograms

of uranium enriched to 60% leaving Iran, by force or through diplomacy?

Look, I pray every day for the possibility that I am wrong. I do not believe that,

but all right. But in my assessment,

in my assessment,

there is no real military way to remove those 450 kilograms.

By the way, even when Netanyahu

declared that

we had removed for generations the threat of annihilation by a nuclear bomb,

I appeared the next day,

I think also on Channel 13 and on several TV channels, and I said, look,

this is not correct, it is not the truth.

Israel is not capable of delaying the Iranians by more than a few weeks,

and the United States is not capable of delaying them by more than a few months.

Therefore I say this: Unfortunately, I do not see a practical way,

no one knows where…

The Iranians chose a strategy that has long been well known,

but for some reason it has not received systematic treatment in any situation

assessment. Can the Strait of Hormuz be opened? And America

has not won a single war, it has won almost every battle,

it has not won a single war in the last 60 years. We need to think

about all of this, and I very much hope I am wrong. I am very afraid that

we are in a… a… bit of a fog. - Let’s talk about…

we are after two and a half years, Hamas is still

there after they promised us six times that we are a step away from total victory.

Hezbollah is still there after they told us that we had thrown it back decades,

and the Iranian nuclear program and the missiles are

still there after they made it clear to us that the existential threat was removed.

Now what is the problem? That there is no truth and trust. We also cannot…

we do not know

all the details here, including those of us who were deep inside these things.

We do not know what really is.

But they do not speak truthfully to us.

Not that they should tell us all the secrets, That they won’t blatantly

lie to our faces, and we can take part in the discussion more seriously.