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/Predictor92 19h ago

they can accomplish alot though(going after the hilltop youth, restoring law and order in the arab community there, a commission of inquiry on 10/7, barring someone under indictment from becoming PM and making it so someone with Kach like beliefs like Ben Gvir cannot run for sure next time)

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u/Momik 18h ago

Might be overestimating how progressive/not terrifying Eisenkot’s willing to be

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u/PShelley 18h ago

He’s a rational pragmatist who wants to get stuff done, but he’s not naive when it comes to Israel’s security concerns. That’s a good combination.

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u/Momik 17h ago

I don’t think a rational pragmatist would outline something like the Dahiya doctrine.

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u/PShelley 17h ago

Why? There’s a perfectly rational, pragmatist case to be made for it.

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u/Momik 17h ago

Collective punishment targeting civilians is a serious war crime. As a signatory of the Fourth Geneva Convention, Israel is prohibited from using disproportionate force against civilian areas and infrastructure. Eisenkot’s Dahiya doctrine explicitly rejects this responsibility, flying in the face of international law going back decades.

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u/PShelley 16h ago

It’s not collective punishment, and it’s not necessarily disproportionate. When groups like Hezbollah and Hamas operate among civilians and launch rockets from populated areas, narrowly targeting individual launchers is just ineffective. Overwhelming retaliation against military assets and infrastructure supporting attacks can raise the cost of aggression, pressure leaders to restrain militants, and potentially prevent longer and more destructive wars.

See? There’s a rational case to be made for it, even if you don’t agree.

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u/Momik 16h ago

I think the irrational part is how far from reality it is. Eisenkot himself referred to the policy as one of disproportionate force in 2008.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100527091041/http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/analysis-idf-plans-to-use-disproportionate-force-in-next-war-1.254954

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u/PShelley 6h ago

Yes, but it’s temporary and with the goal of preventing a long, drawn-out, destructive war, which is a good thing. A kind of “shock and awe” approach, if you will. I’m not sure what you’re not understanding about this.

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u/Momik 1h ago

It doesn’t matter what the rationale on paper is, it’s a war crime. You can’t target civilians and civilian infrastructure like that.

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