Palestinian political parties inside Israel have extended their support to former army chief Gadi Eisenkot in a bid to dismantle Netanyahu's governing coalition. However, Eisenkot authored the destructive Dahiya Doctrine and previously helped steer military operations in Gaza between October 2023 and June 2024. Observers warn that bolstering Eisenkot merely preserves the state's existing leadership structures while perpetuating historic divide-and-rule policies deployed against Palestinians since 1917.
Key points
Backing Eisenkot aligns Palestinian parties with a former general committed to excluding…: Backing Eisenkot aligns Palestinian parties with a former general committed to excluding Arab representatives from governing coalitions.
Both Benjamin Netanyahu and Gadi Eisenkot share policy goals centered on maintaining Jewi…: Both Benjamin Netanyahu and Gadi Eisenkot share policy goals centered on maintaining Jewish supremacy throughout Israel and occupied lands.
Assisting Zionist leadership risks reinforcing long-standing historical practices designe…: Assisting Zionist leadership risks reinforcing long-standing historical practices designed to divide Palestinian populations across fragmented legal categories.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Gadi Eisenkot, leader of the "opposition" Yashar party, have both been principal perpetrators of Israel's genocide of Gaza's Palestinians.
Eisenkot, a former army chief and author of Israel's genocidal "Dahiya Doctrine" of mass destruction targeting civilians, served in Netanyahu's emergency "war cabinet" from October 2023 to June 2024.
Both are equally committed to Jewish supremacy in Israel and the 1967 occupied territories and to excluding so-called "Arab" parties from any coalition government.
It is therefore unclear why any segment of the Palestinian people, let alone those who are citizens of Israel and who have suffered the longest at the hands of their Zionist conquerors, would express a preference for either of these genocidal choices.
All the political parties representing Palestinian citizens of Israel have nonetheless offered their services to Eisenkot in order to end Netanyahu's rule.
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