Former IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot and former PM Naftali Bennett separately accused Prime Minister Netanyahu of lying about Iran's nuclear progress, following Netanyahu's claim that he entered Iran twice to prevent annihilation by atomic bombs already in Iranian hands. The remarks, reported from the Herzliya Conference at Reichman University, escalate a domestic political clash over the government's Iran narrative.
Former IDF Chief of Staff and National Unity chairman Gadi Eisenkot, speaking Wednesday at the Herzliya Conference at Reichman University, accused Prime Minister Netanyahu of 'inventing reality' with claims that Iran already possessed nuclear bombs and that he entered Iran twice to prevent annihilation. Eisenkot, interviewed by N12's Dana Weiss, also revealed that coalition MKs approached him a month after the war began to discuss a constructive no-confidence motion that would put him at the head of a short-term emergency government. Separately, former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett also rejected Netanyahu's account, telling the conference that the claim about Iranian nuclear bombs in hand is 'a lie, it's not true. He's engineering the story.' The attacks deepen the political rift over the government's public framing of the Iran threat, which Netanyahu has described as an existential danger he helped remove through Israeli and US action. As The Zioneer reported earlier this morning, Eisenkot had already called Netanyahu's assertion 'delusional' in initial remarks. The Herzliya Conference remarks add detail, including the revelation of the coalition's confidential approach to him in the war's aftermath.
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