Opinion: Nothing For Liberals To Cheer In Israel’s Netanyahu-Eisenkot Poll Deadlock

All they can hope for, if Eisenkot prevails, is a crackdown on violent settlers and keeping hardline Smotrich and Ben-Gvir out of the government

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First, they wrote off Benjamin Netanyahu. Next, they cheered for his electoral opponent Gadi Eisenkot. Then they realised Eisenkot was not a dove and probably even more hawkish than Bibi on national security.

And now, with prospects of a hung Knesset because no bloc has reached the 61-seat majority mark, they hope that 19 seats won by Arab-led parties will decide the fate of the next government.

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But ‘liberals’ may yet again be disappointed. Because neither Netanyahu nor Eisenkot wants to touch the Arab parties after the October 7 massacre and be seen as going soft on Palestine, and in particular, Hamas.

Netanyahu’s right-wing religious bloc has 53 seats comprising Likud, ultra-orthodox parties Shas and United Torah Judaism, and religious nationalist factions like........

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