Their trustworthiness: Netanyahu's credibility with the Israeli public has been battered by his long-running corruption trial, his political tactics, his refusal to take responsibility for the failures that led to October 7 and accusations of duplicity in his handling of the Iran war.

Eisenkot is seen as a straight shooter, even among many of his opponents.
Zoom in: The failure to prevent the October 7 attacks spurred Eisenkot to challenge Netanyahu.

Eisenkot, who joined N'etanyahu's emergency cabinet shortly after the attacks, lost his son during the war. He later lost two of his nephews in the war.

Zoom out: Netanyahu has cultivated a vast network of donors, lobbyists and supporters in American power corridors for the past half-century. Bibi is a household name in America " for better and worse.

Eisenkot, on the other hand, is almost anonymous in Washington. Very few people know him personally, even within Jewish organizations.

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"The numbers: Eisenkot is leading Netanyahu by 8 to 10 points in most pre-election polls.

While Netanyahu is toxic among at least half of the voters, polls show Eisenkot enjoys high likability across the board.

Netanyahu's efforts to publicly vilify him have been so far unsuccessful.

The big picture:

Eisenkot ran on a center-right platform. He did not make any sweeping foreign policy pronouncements and took pains to steer clear of any public positions that would allow Netanyahu to paint him as weak. Bibi tried to do it, anyway.

Eisenkot has expressed opposition to a Palestinian state under current conditions. He has committed to taking strong steps to crack down on Jewish terrorism against Palestinians in the West Bank.

He also pledged to end Hamas' control of Gaza within 18 months of taking office, either through diplomacy or military force.

Eisenkot supported the war against Iran and strikes on its nuclear facilities. But he opposed Netanyahu's attempt to use military power to force regime change, calling it unrealistic.

Eisenkot supports continuing economic pressure on Iran and building a regional alliance with the Arab world to curb Iranian influence."

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#25

How fortunate for you. Many children are successful, more are not and mostly because they haven't the opportunities or have had worse difficulties.

But hey, as long as your kids made it, every kid should make it and no kid should ever ha#25 ve a helping hand because of disease, discrimination, race, gender, or education possibilities... right, Billy Joe Bob?

#23

The political figures I analogized to are popular modern liberals/progressives for their distinctive times.

That was the analogy, not whether someone died or not and should be made out as a Hero or not because of it; they are alike in that their political philosophy, not in their martyrdom.

Boomers did have the advantage of an economy stoked by the success of defeating Fascism around the world in WWII by the Greatest and the Silent Gens, who to their credit joined in street protests against the moneyed Elite in cities all over the country.

We also grew up with a simple seemingly idyllic lifestyle of fresh food and mostly safe neighborhoods and schools (per the 70's thread).

But we also grew up with the Cold War; visions of nuclear explosions on B&W tvs, school Atomic Bomb Drills; sitting in hallways with hands over heads during the Cold War, as if that would help! (see Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, circa 1964).

The Korean War, the Vietnam War (aka 'Police Action'), and "I am NOT a Crook!" Richard Nixon's pre-Trump Election Rigging.

Heroes (we actually had heroes!) like JFK, MLK, RFK assassinated in the streets.

Which would be like seeing Obama and Bernie and AOC shot dead today.

Not to mention our own college kids murdered by nervous Natl Guards while protesting the War.

But we had other Heroes; Walter Cronkite and Bill Moyers who didn't give a flying F what politicians thought about them. John Glenn et al who braved the Final Frontier. (OK, and Star Trek, lol)

My first college English assignment was to write an essay on Modern Heroes, if there still were any. My subject was one of the survivors, Muhammad Ali, who was eventually offered a Deal to fight exhibitions for the troops if he'd only sign up. He gave up his best years to join, and lead, the Protest instead.

Unfortunately, it was the moneyed Elite who called the shots and elected Reagan, the Tea Party, Nutty Newty, and now Project25.

Of course, it's the whole Gen, who mostly opposed all that, who gets the blame now for what those same moneyed Elite are still doing now.... despite that most of the modern Gens also oppose them.

Well, except maybe in the last election, but many groups; Gens, racial groups, and even farmers and ranchers and truck drivers have now seen enough of these current Nixons their and Elitist backers.