As Winter fuels Netanyahu’s discontent, Israel's Right faces a new dilemma

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• 01Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who, as prime minister, bears ultimate political responsibility for October 7, remains at the helm of the Likud.
• 02Gadi Eisenkot, who served as IDF chief of staff from 2015 to 2019, during years when the policy of containing Hamas became entrenched, heads Yashar.
• 03First Class Saadia Derai, was killed in Gaza; former Channel 13 journalist Netali Shem Tov, a Metula resident evacuated from her home because of Hezbollah fire; and Sigal Kraunik, whose husband, Arik, was killed defending Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7.
• 04But after the catastrophic surprise attack on October 7, with Israel’s international standing deteriorating and its wars with Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran still unresolved, experience can look less like an asset than baggage – especially when it is experience in pursuing failed policies.
• 05Channel 13 had POI below the electoral threshold; Walla gave it six seats and pushed Smotrich below the threshold; i24NEWS gave Winter eight and Smotrich four.
• 06During 2014’s Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, he got into trouble for holding unauthorized conversations with Bennett, then economy minister, about the military campaign.
• 07Bennett called him “one of the best field commanders in the IDF,” while Liberman said that if Winter had been the head of the Southern Command on October 7, that disaster would not have happened.