From 'Dialna' to Likud: Eisenkot's connection still unconvincing | Adv. Michael Kleiner

Adv. Michael Kleiner argues that the attempt to present Gadi Eisenkot as a candidate with ethnic authenticity to attract Likud voters is laughable, and that five weeks before the elections, no decisive message has been formulated in either the coalition or the opposition.

Adv. Michael Kleiner, in an opinion column in Maariv, attacks the attempt to retroactively attribute ethnic authenticity to Yashar party leader Gadi Eisenkot in order to attract Likud voters. Kleiner claims that Eisenkot, who has hidden behind a German surname all his life, will not convince voters even if he learns to say 'Dialna'. Five weeks before the elections, Kleiner states that no decisive message has been formulated in either the coalition or the opposition. The opposition relies on the old message 'Anyone but Bibi', which seems to have exhausted itself. The coalition, he says, has failed to present its achievements under the heading 'You were right in a big way'. Kleiner compares the government's achievements to those of the Six-Day War, while noting the difficult starting conditions of the October 7 war. He also refers to the protests against Netanyahu, which he describes as disproportionate, and compares the Hungarian model to the situation in Israel.