Netanyahu brands Eisenkot 'too cautious,' touts Rafah, Philadelphi and Lebanon wins
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened a direct election-trail attack on his rising challenger Gadi Eisenkot, branding the former IDF chief of staff as 'too politically cautious' to have ordered the operations that reshaped the battlefields against Hamas and Hezbollah. Netanyahu argued that under an Eisenkot government Israel would not have entered Rafah, seized the Philadelphi Corridor, eliminated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, executed the 2024 pager operation, or destroyed 90 percent of Hezbollah's missile stockpile, leaving 'all of Radwan Force's terror tunnels right here on the border.' Eisenkot countered that Netanyahu 'blindly' led Israel to a 'historic low,' lies, and 'evades responsibility.' Polls put Eisenkot's Yashar party as the main right-leaning challenger to Likud.