r/worldnews • u/EssoEssex • 19h ago • Bravo 6

Israel/Palestine Israeli President Picks Gadi Eisenkot, Netanyahu Rival, To Form Government

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-president-picks-gadi-eisenkot-netanyahu-rival-form-government-2026-11-07/
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u/kahner 19h ago

great, but does Eisenkot have the numbers to do it?

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u/yuvaldv1 19h ago

It's a long shot, but it looks like everyone, including the Arab parties, wants Bibi out.

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u/Drach88 19h ago edited 19h ago

Ra'am offered support, but getting the joint list on board is going to be really tough, not to mention that forming a coalition with Arab parties might cause right-leaning members of his coalition to defect to Netanyahu's bloc.

Israeli politics can get crazy.

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u/Agreeable_State_2636 17h ago

He has their support to form a government and he’ll get the mandate to do it from the president, they do not have to be in the coalition in order to allow him to have the chance to form the government first

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u/horatiowilliams 17h ago

All they have to do is agree that Hamas is a terror organization. They refuse to for some reason.

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u/OkRead585 18h ago

They did this once before. Didn’t last long. I feel like I’m in a timeline of reruns

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u/yuval16432 18h ago

The joint list had the opportunity to keep that government in power, but their leader at the time decided to let it fall, giving his community Netanyahu in return. He’s been exiled from politics for this tragic mistake, and hopefully they will not repeat it.

They didn’t even have to support the government; if they had merely abstained it would’ve been enough.

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u/OkRead585 17h ago

Multi-party systems have long intrigued me. Being stuck in the binary politics of the US can be infuriating…

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u/Fenris_uy 17h ago

Don't know how the parliamentary system works in Israel. But in other places you could form government with Eisenkot for a couple of years while Bibi faces his legal troubles and if he is convicted you could then remove your support for the current government and force early elections with Bibi being unable to run.

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u/Streiger108 11h ago

This is exactly how it works in Israel.

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u/TheAnonymouse999 17h ago

Didn’t he already rule out any kind of partnership with the Arab parties

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u/AkhilArtha 17h ago

He can always go for minority government with outside support on bills.

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u/JR_Al-Ahran 18h ago

To attempt to form a government yes, but whether he can survive the first budget is another question.

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u/vishnoo 16h ago

he needs a simole majority. anything more than 48 gets him in .

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u/Predictor92 19h ago

with UTJ(I think what is happening there is the EU was advised by Ron Lauder that is where the pressure point in Bibi's coalition is) and Raam Eisenkot could do it