With emphasis added, former prime minister Naftali Bennett calls for Israel to act “now” against Iran’s nuclear program, saying the Islamic Republic “made a terrible mistake” with its major missile attack this evening.
“Israel has now its greatest opportunity in 50 years, to change the face of the Middle East,” Bennett writes in an English-language post on X. “We must act *now* to destroy Iran’s nuclear program, its central energy facilities, and to fatally cripple this terrorist regime.”
“We must remove this terrible threat to our children’s future,” he continues, while saying that striking Iran could allow “the Iranian people an opportunity to rise up and shake off the regime that tyrannizes its women and daughters.”
“We have the justification. We have the tools. Now that Hezbollah and Hamas are paralyzed, Iran stands exposed.”
“There are times when history knocks at our door, and we must open it,” he concludes. “This opportunity must not be missed.”