No Withdrawal, No Guarantees, No Eisenkot: The Only Path Forward

Avi Abelow | META

Gadi Eisenkot. Screengrab via Youtube.

The election is over. Now we must return to reality.

Our reality is not coalition mathematics or whatever domestic issue the political and media establishment decides Israelis should obsess over this week.

Our reality is that we are surrounded, and infiltrated, by jihadi enemies who openly want to destroy us, and this war is not finished.

Look north in Syria.

Ahmed al-Sharaa, Al-Julani, the leader of the jihadi forces in Syria is planning an Oct. 7 invasion from Syria.

They just produced a video visualizing a future invasion into Israel’s Golan Heights. This is not theory.

This is happening alongside anti-Israel demonstrations, weapons training and jihadi rhetoric in southern Syria.

We have seen this movie before.

Before October 7, Israel’s security establishment repeatedly convinced itself that our enemies could be contained, deterred and managed.

Then October 7 taught us the catastrophic price of October 6 thinking.

That is why Israel can never pull out IDF forces from southern Syria and once again place Israeli families behind international guarantees and promises, the policy supported by Eizenkot. We must maintain the strategic territory necessary to prevent jihadi forces from building an October 7-style invasion force on our border. Protecting the Golan requires Israel remains in our ancestral lands in southern Syria permanently.

And this brings us directly to the question of Israel’s next government.

The Likud is the largest party and there will understandably be enormous pressure for center-left parties to join a coalition with Netanyahu. As only a tiny minority of Israeli Jews support Eizenkot creating a coalition with the anti-Israel Arab parties.

But Gadi Eizenkot cannot be the answer to join a Netanyahu coalition.

Matti Tuchfeld, political correspondent for Israel’s Channel 14, issued a stark warning about precisely this possibility.

Tuchfeld recalled that while Eizenkot sat in the war cabinet, he continually pushed to end the war for a horrible hostage deal that Hamas never even agreed to, he opposed conquering Rafah and the Philadelphi Corridor, and his push to end the war was before Israel eliminated Sinwar, before Israel entered Lebanon and before Israel attacked Iran.

According to Tuchfeld, Eizenkot was pushing to end the war while simultaneously briefing that Netanyahu was continuing the war for political considerations and joining the campaign accusing Netanyahu of abandoning the hostages.

Then Eizenkot left the government, in the middle of an existential war!

And Tuchfeld’s warning today is that despite all of this, political circumstances could still lead Netanyahu into cooperation with Eizenkot.

His conclusion: “That is dangerous.”

He is right.

Because this is not about whether Eizenkot is a patriot or whether he served Israel honorably in the IDF for decades. It is about strategy.

Had Israel followed Eizenkot’s war strategy, Israel would not have eliminated Sinwar, would not conquered Rafah or the Philadelphi Corridor, would not have destroyed Hezbollah and would not have destroyed Iran’s nuclear facilities.

And Eizenkot has already articulated the same failed approach regarding Syria: ultimately removing Israeli forces and relying on international guarantees.

International guarantees?

After October 7?

With jihadis across the border openly dreaming of reaching the Golan?

That is October 6 thinking. Israel cannot afford it again.

We are confronting jihadist threats from Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and beyond, while the confrontation with the Islamic Republic of Iran remains unfinished.

Israel still has a war to win.

Netanyahu therefore needs a broader government if possible, but one capable of continuing the military strategy necessary to defeat these threats, not stopping it halfway.

Hopefully Naftali Bennett, Avigdor Liberman or responsible individuals from other parties can find a way to join a Netanyahu ledgovernment based upon that overriding national responsibility: protecting Israel, defeating our enemies and finishing the war.

Eizenkot’s track record shows why he cannot be trusted with shaping Israel’s security policy in the next government: when Israel needs the freedom to eliminate threats before they become catastrophes, his approach restrains Israel and returns us to reliance on international guarantees that have repeatedly failed to protect us.

This is bigger than personalities. It is bigger than coalition politics.

The question is whether Israel continues dismantling the threats surrounding us, or returns to withdrawals, international guarantees, deterrence and managing jihadi enemies committed to our destruction.

We tried that doctrine.

October 7 was the result.

Our enemies are still telling us exactly what they want to do to us.

This time Israel must believe them and ensure they never get the opportunity.

It is time to refocus on defeating our jihadi enemies and protecting our lives. God is pushing us to reclaim and liberate our ancestral homeland, as we are destined to do. As there is no other option to protect our lives.

Am Yisrael Chai!!!

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