Media Personality Eliraz Sade: Netanyahu Wins Debate Without Attending

Media personality Eliraz Sade believes that National Unity Party Chairman Gadi Eisenkot made a strategic error by inviting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to a televised debate. Sade stated on his X account that Eisenkot's invitation caused people to consider Netanyahu's strengths in such a confrontation, effectively meaning "Netanyahu wins the debate without arriving." Sade also criticized Eisenkot's advisors and campaigners, comparing their approach to offering every child chocolate ice cream simply because it is ice cream and they are children, without considering individual preferences. Eisenkot had formally invited Netanyahu to a debate to be broadcast live on all Israeli media channels ahead of the upcoming elections. The Likud party responded dismissively, questioning if Eisenkot would be accompanied by Mansour Abbas and Yair Golan. Yonatan Urich added that calling for a debate three weeks before elections indicated panic. In September, Sade had previously caused a stir on social media regarding Netanyahu's UN speech, urging the Prime Minister to adopt a firm stance, abandon traditional public relations tactics, and declare who Israel had eliminated and would eliminate. He also called on Netanyahu to inform Arab nations that "we will solve Gaza through immigration because we are coming to settle there," and to declare that given the fighting in the north, "these are the new borders of Israel."