JERUSALEM—Avigdor Liberman was one of the only Israeli leaders who saw Oct. 7 coming. Now, the hawkish former defense minister turned opposition lawmaker insists Israel is fighting the wrong war, wasting its time pounding Iranian proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah rather than confronting Iran itself.
In the post-Oct. 7 world, Liberman has credibility. Shortly after the brutal massacre that shook Israelis from a decade of delusion about Hamas’s intentions and capabilities, Israeli media published excerpts from a secret document that Liberman produced as defense minister in 2016.
He warned in the memo to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Hamas planned to send “a significant number of well-trained forces” to capture…
