On May 29, the Israeli Defense Forces kicked off a large-scale, two- week exercise to include simulated “strategic” strikes deep in enemy territory in an all-out war scenario, and the Navy carrying out mock offensive and defensive actions, a military source told the Times of Israel.
On Sunday, June 4, the Israeli security cabinet joined that exercise to simulate decision-making by the political echelon during a potential multi-front war. “We are confident we can handle any threat on our own,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the outset of the meeting, in an apparent reference to the United States’ efforts to reach a diplomatic solution with Iran with regard to its nuclear program. “The reality in our region is changing rapidly. We are not stagnating. We are adjusting our war doctrine and our options of action in accordance with these changes, in accordance with our goals which do not change,” Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu said further that Israel was “committed to acting against the Iranian nuclear program, against missile attacks on the State of Israel and against the possibility of the convergence of the arenas, what we call a multi-front campaign.”
