Former IDF chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Benny Gantz, spoke Monday at a Sapir College conference entitled, "From Operation Protective Edge to the Third Intifada."
"Operation Protective Edge was done at the right time and place," Gantz asserted. "The Gaza belt stood firmly against all the challenges posed to it. But Israeli society - I can say with a certain amount of criticism - the howls were much louder than the reality."