Eisenkot rejects Netanyahu's unity govt call as 'tricks'

Israeli PM-designate Gadi Eisenkot dismissed Benjamin Netanyahu's renewed push for a national unity government, calling it political trickery. Netanyahu urged forming a Jewish-party coalition to counter Iran's nuclear threat, but Eisenkot, currently negotiating a minority government, said Netanyahu 'knows he lost' and reiterated conditions: excluding far-right figures like Ben Gvir and backing Matan Kahana as Knesset speaker.