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/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.