Eisenkot blasts Netanyahu for senior appointments made as ‘reward for loyalty’

Former IDF chief of staff and “Yashar! With Eisenkot” chairman Gadi Eisenkot slams Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a lengthy X post, accusing him of making senior appointments on the basis of loyalty.

Eisenkot slams several events involving Netanyahu over the past week, including his request for a pardon in his criminal trial, his promotion of a law regulating military draft exemptions for ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students, and his intention to lead a panel deciding the mandate of a probe of the failures of October 7.

“And if all this is not enough — senior officials are appointed by the ‘Commander in Chief,’ in what appears to be a reward for loyalty and siding with his path, at the expense of experience, professionalism, and national considerations,” he writes, in an apparent reference to his decision to tap his military secretary, Maj. Gen. Roman Gofman, as the next Mossad director.

“He is afraid of a state commission of inquiry to investigate his responsibility over October 7. He is afraid of an equal conscription law that will benefit Israel’s servicemen. He is afraid of his legal process, even though he has constantly claimed otherwise, and most of all, he is afraid of elections in which the people will judge his actions that led to the October 7 massacre and the way the military campaign was conducted,” Eisenkot writes.