Israel's Eisenkot vows unity as Netanyahu paints him as soft on Iran
Israeli election contender Gadi Eisenkot on Sunday vowed to unite the country as he held his final major rally before the vote, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to tar his main rival as soft on Iran. Netanyahu has campaigned heavily on his security credentials, but Eisenkot has cast him as unfit to lead and pledged a state commission of inquiry into the failings that led to Hamas's…
During his final major rally before the vote on Sunday, Israeli election contender Gadi Eisenkot vowed to unite the country. Eisenkot cast Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as unfit to lead and pledged to establish a state commission of inquiry into the failures regarding Hamas.
Netanyahu has campaigned on his security credentials and shared an AI image of an Iranian nuclear bomb exploding in Tel Aviv. According to the Jerusalem Post, Eisenkot responded to the image by calling Netanyahu “hysterical” and accusing him of using “lies and scare tactics.”
Arutz Sheva - Israel National News reports that figures close to Netanyahu and senior security officials believe military strikes might weaken the Iranian regime but would not be enough to cause its collapse.
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