Gadi Eisenkot responded to former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's pledge to designate Qatar an enemy state, saying the decision must be serious and not an election campaign statement, according to Amit Segal (N12).
Eisenkot's remarks add to the ongoing debate among Israeli officials over Qatar's classification. Bennett has repeatedly called for designating Qatar an enemy state, most recently at the INSS conference, where he described Qatar as 'a cancer that sends metastases to the West and even to the Prime Minister's office.' Eisenkot previously stated that Qatar is not defined as an enemy state, though it engages in harmful activity toward Israel similar to Turkey. In his latest response, Eisenkot cautioned against treating the declaration as a political tool, urging a thorough and serious process rather than an election-season pledge.
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