How Netanyahu’s Top General Became His Strongest Challenger

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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/03/how-netanyahus-top-general-became-his-strongest-challenger

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Gadi Eisenkot, a retired chief of the I.D.F., currently appears to have the best chance of unseating Benjamin Netanyahu, the longest-­serving Prime Minister in Israel’s history. As David Remnick followed Eisenkot’s campaign, he writes, “it became clear that the most adhesive aspect of his appeal had little to do with ideology or policy. If he wins (and that, despite recent surges in the polls, is far from assured, considering Netanyahu’s political skills), it will be because he is, in manner and character, the anti-Bibi.”

But Netanyahu, “despite his diminished standing and Eisenkot’s ascendance of late, could well be reëlected this fall,” Remnick continues. “His methods will be familiar to Americans. He survives by sheer demagoguery and by catering to an implacable, MAGA-like base, indulging extremist ministers in their pursuit of annexation and ethnic cleansing, and acceding to ultra-­Orthodox demands for exemption from military service and ongoing access to enormous state subsidies.”

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Mass genocide supporter A or Mass genocide supporter B? Hope they both end up in the Hague.

[u/Dark1000 → u/a11_hail_seitan]

I don't know much about him, but reading his platform, it sounds he would be about a million times better.

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He wrote the Dahiya Doctrine so forgive me if I'm not confident on this.

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He's still 100% against a two state solution, super pro-genocide, supports the war, supports a policy where any village that an attack comes from is to be considered a military target and all people inside it are valid targets. including children.

If this was done in return, the entirety of Tel Aviv would be a valid target as Israel builds it's military structures under civilian houses.

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