JERUSALEM, July 25, 2024 – In an event sponsored by the Middle East Forum-organized Israel Victory Caucus (IVC) of Israel’s parliament (the Knesset), multiple speakers argued that Israel’s security requires turning the tables on Iran by creating proxies to undermine the Islamic Republic (video).
Participants included Israeli cabinet ministers, members of Knesset (MKs) from both coalition and opposition, senior military figures, family members of the fallen and kidnapped, and other prominent decision makers and opinion shapers.
Some key points:
- Ohad Tal, MK and caucus co-chair: “Iran is using its proxies in the Middle East in order to achieve its ultimate goal, and that is to destroy the state of Israel.” It is therefore “time to invest real resources in psychological warfare” and “to use proxies against Iran just as they used these against us.”
- Evgeny Sova, MK, caucus co-chair, and deputy chair of the Knesset: “The most just war, after the worst single massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, is being dragged out as a result of a failed, anti-Zionist decision-making process in which at the end of the day the world still sees us as the ones responsible for the situation in Gaza.”
- Orit Strook, Minister for National Projects: “On October 7 we were awakened from tens of years where they tried to placate us with stories like, “peace is made with enemies” and “land for peace” - and we did everything we could not to prepare for this terrible multi-front war.”
- Gregg Roman, Middle East Forum (MEF) director: “To defeat the Iran-directed Palestinian rejection of the Jewish state requires breaking Tehran’s support for the Palestinian groups. Iran uses this support to undermine Israel. Exposing the regime’s exploitation of the Palestinian issue weakens its influence and reduces the appeal of its propaganda. Disconnecting Tehran from Ramallah and Gaza isolates Iran and weakens its proxies.”
- David Friedman, former U.S. ambassador to Israel, spoke about his plan for ending the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
One day after MEF’s Knesset event, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress advocated defeating Iran and its proxies.
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