As Israeli forces continue to fight Iran and its axis of resistance on multiple fronts, a letter this week from Secretaries of Defense and State Lloyd Austin and Antony Blinken starkly warned that if Israel did not increase humanitarian aid to Gaza in 30 days, it risked a devastating suspension of U.S. weapons supplies. Behind the letter is a growing concern that Israel has adopted the so-called “Generals’ Plan,” a controversial strategy proposed by a group of retired Israeli generals to give hundreds of thousands of civilians a strict deadline to evacuate northern Gaza before the IDF lays siege to the area to starve out and destroy the remaining elements of Hamas.
JINSA hosted a discussion with Major General (ret.) Giora Eiland, the intellectual architect of the “Generals’ Plan” to hear exactly what the proposal does (and does not) entail and how it relates to Israel’s renewed operations in northern Gaza. Eiland served as national security advisor to former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The discussion was moderated by JINSA’s Randi & Charles Wax Senior Fellow John Hannah.