Minister Eliyahu: "Eizenkot reduced the army – and we are paying with the lives of our children"
Minister of Heritage Amichai Eliyahu attacked Mansour Abbas and Gadi Eizenkot, rejected the establishment of a Palestinian state, and claimed that the political concessions led to a disaster: "Whoever supports this – supports the next…
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Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu directly blamed former IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot for military readiness failures, claiming his force reductions cost Israeli lives. He also attacked Mansour Abbas and rejected Palestinian statehood as enabling future massacres. This escalates internal political warfare during wartime, with a sitting minister accusing a former security chief of culpability for casualties. Watch whether other coalition members echo or distance themselves from this framing.