Foreign channel: Herzog officially tasked Eisenkot with forming a government, Netanyahu panicked.
According to the channel, President Yitzhak Herzog officially handed over the mandate to form the next government to Gadi Eisenkot. The former chief of staff was given 28 days to build a coalition, with the support of 67 Knesset members. including the Arab parties. Compared to Netanyahu's 46.
With the math clearly against him, Netanyahu is now in a state of complete desperation, according to the channel, and is recording desperate messages to his base to block Eisenkot's coalition.
He demands a "national unity government" composed exclusively of Israeli parties (explicitly excluding the Arab citizens of Israel), and warns that the alternative is national suicide:
"A government that depends on Hamas supporters will not fight Hamas. A government that depends on radical Islam will not fight radical Islam. The fires and flames we see in the streets of Paris and Brussels are negligible compared to those that will engulf the streets of Jerusalem. ".
According to the channel, Netanyahu is framing a democratically elected coalition as an existential apocalypse. why? Because the Israeli establishment is eager to oust him, not only to end the deadlock, but to find a scapegoat for the October 7 failures and reset relations with the US.
He claims that he is the only one who can save Israel from the "extreme Islam" he describes. But with 67 Knesset members lining up behind his opponent, his warnings sound less like a security strategy and more like a desperate attempt to avoid court.