Palestinian parties must not help Eisenkot rescue Israel from collapse

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Palestinian parties must not help Eisenkot rescue Israel from collapse Submitted by Joseph Massad on Fri, 11/13/2026 - 15:14 Eisenkot sat in Netanyahu's war cabinet and promises a…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Gadi Eisenkot, leader of the "opposition" Yashar party, have both been principal perpetrators of Israel's genocide of Gaza's Palestinians.

Eisenkot, a former army chief and author of Israel's genocidal "Dahiya Doctrine" of mass destruction targeting civilians, served in Netanyahu's emergency "war cabinet" from October 2023 to June 2024.

Both are equally committed to Jewish supremacy in Israel and the 1967 occupied territories and to excluding so-called "Arab" parties from any coalition government.

It is therefore unclear why any segment of the Palestinian people, let alone those who are citizens of Israel and who have suffered the longest at the hands of their Zionist conquerors, would express a preference for either of these genocidal choices.

All the political parties representing Palestinian citizens of Israel have nonetheless offered their services to Eisenkot in order to end Netanyahu's rule.

In so doing, they end up helping Israel weather an existential crisis, which Eisenkot himself fears will lead to the final collapse of the Jewish settler-colony as it teeters on the brink of a "point of no return" unless he forms a "national emergency" government.

Since the Zionist movement's inception and the later establishment of Israel, Zionist leaders have sought to divide and conquer the Palestinian people, thereby weakening their resistance to European Jewish settler-colonialism.

Those Zionists who mistook themselves for Marxists (in fact, they had always been no more than master-race socialists) insisted on separating the Palestinian peasantry from the Palestinian effendis, the landowning class who oppressed them.

The main wing of the Zionist Organization, meanwhile, fomented fissures between Palestinian Christians and Muslims, especially following the British occupation of Palestine, which began in late 1917.

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