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Eisenkot’s hardline views
Gadi Eisenkot, the former Israeli chief of staff and leader of the Yashar party, is competing with Benjamin Netanyahu to form a government. Sixty-seven members of parliament recommended that he be tasked with forming one, compared with 46 for Netanyahu, but Eisenkot needs a coalition that can command the confidence of at least 61 members. His positions reflect a hard-line security stance: he rejects the establishment of an independent Palestinian state and insists on Israeli security control between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. He also calls for dismantling Hamas’s military capabilities and ending its rule in Gaza. His name has been associated with the “Dahiya Doctrine,” which entails the use of extensive destructive force. He supports settlement expansion in the West Bank, while opposing its formal annexation and criticizing settler violence. The article therefore does not present him as a straightforward moderate alternative. His differences with Netanyahu center on how to manage the conflict, certain settlement policies and alliances—not on accepting a two-state solution.
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