[News] Retired Israeli General Brik: 'Israel has reached point of no return'

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  Retired Israeli General Brik: 'Israel has reached point of no return'

Al Mayadeen English
October 8, 2025
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Retired Israeli General Yitzhak Brik warns that "Israel" is now the 
“biggest loser” from the failure to reach a ceasefire agreement, as its 
military objectives remain unfulfilled.

  * Retired Israeli General Brik says Israel has reached point of no
    return.
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    Israeli settlers attend a memorial service marking two years since
    the October 7, 2023, in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, just outside of the
    besieged Gaza Strip, in southern occupied Palestine, on October 7,
    2025. (/AP/)

Retired Israeli Major General Yitzhak Brik warned that "Israel" has 
reached a “singular point”, a political, social, and security crisis 
marking a “point of no return” in its war on the Gaza Strip.

Writing in an op-ed for Israeli newspaper /Maariv/ on October 5, Brik 
said "Israel" is now the “biggest loser” from the failure to reach a 
ceasefire agreement, as its military objectives remain unfulfilled and 
its regional position continues to deteriorate after 2 years of war.

“If no agreement is signed, the consequences for Israel will be severe. 
The captives will not return home, many more soldiers will be killed and 
wounded if fighting continues, and Hamas will not be defeated,” Brik wrote.


    Brik: Hamas feels confident, 'Israel's' threats lost credibility

According to Brik, Hamas’ response to United States President Donald 
Trump’s ceasefire plan reflects the group’s confidence in its strength 
and its tunnel network.

“Hamas feels strong enough and is not afraid of Israeli threats,” Brik 
said, adding that the movement no longer takes seriously Israeli 
warnings from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or Security Minister 
Israel Katz.


      Claims of destorying majority of tunnels are false

Brik argued that two years of fighting have taught Hamas the limits of 
the occupation army and the emptiness of political promises. Israeli 
claims of destroying 60% of Hamas’ tunnels 
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/hamas-built-underground-war-machine-for-survival--washpo>, 
he wrote, are false.

“In reality, less than 20% were destroyed.”

He added that Israeli figures on casualties among Palestinian Resistance 
fighters were also inflated, “not 20,000 killed, but fewer than 10,000," 
and that new recruits have replaced those losses, bringing Hamas’ 
current force back to around 30,000 fighters.

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talks 
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    'Israel has achieved none of its war aims'

Brik said the war has cost "Israel" hundreds of troops killed and 
thousands wounded, while failing to free captives or restore deterrence.

“We have been fighting for two years and have achieved none of our war 
objectives,” he wrote.

“The prime minister continues to deceive the public with slogans like 
‘We changed the Middle East for the better,’ while in reality, it is 
changing for the worse—against Israel,” the retired general asserted.

He also accused senior Israeli officials, including Foreign Minister 
Gideon Sa'ar, of misleading the Israeli public by claiming that Trump’s 
demand for an immediate ceasefire and negotiations 
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/indirect-talks-for-a-ceasefire-in-gaza-begin-in-sharm-el-she> 
was anticipated and planned.

Brik said the Israeli leadership’s lack of credibility has brought the 
entity to a state of strategic paralysis, warning that "Israel’s" 
collapse now extends beyond the battlefield to the economy, academia, 
international relations, medicine, and education.

*Read more: Al-Aqsa Flood two years on, a tale of victory 
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/al-aqsa-flood-two-years-on--a-tale-of-victory>*


    Regional dynamics turning against 'Israel'

Warning that an emerging US–Qatar–Turkiye axis poses a severe threat to 
"Israel’s" long-term security, Brik said that “the noose of threats 
surrounding Israel is tightening, while we are not building any military 
capability to face it.”

He cited Trump’s new defense pact with Qatar, which guarantees US 
protection in case of attack, and Washington’s signals about possibly 
reinstating Turkiye into the F-35 fighter jet 
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/erdogan-presses-trump-on-f-35--f-16-jet-sales-at-white-house> 
program.

He argued that "Israel’s" continued intransigence is leading to 
diplomatic isolation and the erosion of its regional ties.

“Hamas will achieve what it never dreamed of achieving—disconnecting 
Israel from the world, from Arab states that signed peace with it, and 
from any path to future normalization.”

*Read more: Gaza resistance announces major operations against Israeli 
forces 
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/gaza-resistance-announces-major-operations-against-israeli-f>*


    'A ceasefire can save Israel'

Brik urged an immediate ceasefire agreement and political change, 
arguing that only negotiations “with compromises on both sides” can save 
"Israel" from total collapse.

He praised Trump’s decision, made hours after Hamas’ response, to order 
an immediate halt to Israeli bombardments and push for talks, saying 
that the decision “should have been made months ago” and could have 
spared "Israel’s" heavy losses.

“The success of the negotiations depends on close American supervision,” 
Brik wrote, warning that Netanyahu could again try to sabotage talks 
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as he had in the past.

“If the negotiations fail, Hamas will soon refuse any future compromise, 
knowing that time is on its side and Israel is weakening on all fronts.”

*Read more: How Trump cornered Netanyahu into Gaza ceasefire plan: FT 
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/how-trump-cornered-netanyahu-into-gaza-ceasefire-plan--ft>*

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