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Netanyahu's opponents lack a lasting coalition glue, strategist argues

Nimrod Eliran Sabah questions whether parties united against Netanyahu can govern together, while warning against counting him out.

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איזנקוט בהלם: "לעולם אל תגידו 'לעולם לא' כשמדובר בנתניהו"

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0:37Sabah argues that removing Netanyahu is the prospective coalition partners' principal shared objective.
2:22He says political differences among the possible partners would make governing together difficult.
4:17A photograph of party leaders prompts Sabah's assessment that fear of another election is shaping their calculations.
6:18Sabah questions the coalition's viability and argues that Netanyahu's political options should not be dismissed.
7:07Menashe criticizes Eisenkot's political experience; Eisenkot does not participate in the interview.

Opposition to Benjamin Netanyahu may bring parties together, but strategic adviser Nimrod Eliran Sabah argues that it cannot resolve the differences between them. His morning-show interview examines the difficulties facing a potential government led by Gadi Eisenkot after Israel's election.

Speaking by video link to Oded Menashe on Israel's ערוץ 14 (Channel 14), Sabah characterizes the prospective partners as a bloc whose central purpose is removing Netanyahu. He questions how politicians with sharply conflicting positions could sustain a coalition, including over cooperation with Arab parties.

Eisenkot, a former Israeli military chief who leads the Yashar party, was Netanyahu's main challenger in the election. The interview follows the opening of the new Knesset, Israel's parliament, where Netanyahu called for a unity government, as we reported here.

Sabah's criticism is not directed entirely outward. He also assigns responsibility to his own political camp for its predicament, rather than blaming only its opponents. That acknowledgment sits alongside his broader argument that opposition to Netanyahu is being presented as a substitute for a shared governing program.

A photograph of party leaders at President Isaac Herzog's residence becomes the interview's central visual. Menashe asks Sabah to interpret their expressions; Sabah attributes anxiety to the politicians about another election, singling out Avigdor Lieberman. Those are Sabah's assessments, not statements of intent from the people pictured.

Near the end, Sabah invokes Netanyahu's record of political survival and cautions against treating his exclusion from power as inevitable. Menashe then criticizes Eisenkot's political experience.

Despite the upload's title describing Eisenkot as being "in shock," this is a discussion about him, not an interview with him or footage establishing that reaction. Its closing argument is Sabah's: even while other parties explore governing together, Netanyahu should not be counted out.

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