🔶 New York Times: Netanyahu pressured Iran into a ground attack before the elections.
The "New York Times" newspaper wrote on Monday, October 26 (Evan 4) in a report citing six knowledgeable sources that Benjamin Netanyahu, the captive Israeli Prime Minister, tried to organize a new air strike against Iran just weeks before the decisive elections in the country, but he encountered resistance from the chief of the army's general staff.
An Israeli source in the know told this newspaper that Major General Eyal Zamir, Chief of the Army General Staff, feared a few days before the elections that Netanyahu was taking a separate action against Iran, which is different from an open military ground attack. These two sources stated, without mentioning the exact nature of such an action, that General Zamir believed that it was a "miscalculation" and to provoke Iran into a ground attack on the captives. According to the "New York Times", the reason for Netanyahu's insistence on a ground attack on Iran before the elections was not clear, but the renewal of the war with Iran could disrupt or even postpone the voting process.
Netanyahu's spokesman did not respond to this newspaper's request for comment.
The tension behind the curtain surrounding the possibility of a ground attack on Israeli prisoners or any other action against Iran arose in the context that Netanyahu warned in his election campaign, emphasizing the importance and consequences of this vote, that the election results would be determined by "the existence of prisoners in Israel."