War cabinet observer Gadi Eisenkot slammed Prime Minister Netanyahu on Saturday evening for what he called a blind push that led to historic lows, accusing him of working day and night to divide the nation and encourage draft evasion. The statement was a direct response to Netanyahu's earlier call for a broad national unity government, as reported by Dafna Liel.
War cabinet observer and former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot on Saturday evening delivered a sharp rebuke to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, responding to Netanyahu's earlier statement about forming a broad national unity government.
Eisenkot, whose remarks were reported by Dafna Liel, said: "A prime minister who blindly led to a historic low, who works day and night for division and incitement, who invests all his energy in encouraging draft evasion — is not worthy of this nation, and certainly not fit to preach about unity." The comment directly targets Netanyahu's Saturday evening call for a broad coalition, which itself came amid a deepening political crisis over mandatory military service exemptions for ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students.
The exchange is the latest in a series of clashes between the two politicians. As The Zioneer previously reported, Eisenkot earlier this week slammed Netanyahu's public statement as providing "zero real answers to a people enduring its hardest years." The opposition war cabinet observer has positioned himself as a centrist alternative to Netanyahu, with his Yashar party aiming to capture votes from disillusioned center-right and security-minded Israelis. The conscription crisis — which has paralyzed coalition talks and sparked mass protests — remains the central flashpoint, with Eisenkot accusing the prime minister of using the broad-government proposal as a distraction from his failure to pass a conscription bill.
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