Eisenkot Campaign Manager Criticizes Bennett, Lapid in Deleted Tweet
Translated & summarized from Now 14 by baba
Ronen Menelis, campaign manager for Gadi Eisenkot, posted and then deleted a critical tweet targeting Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid. Menelis suggested the two politicians were focused on internal competition instead of the goal of replacing Prime Minister Netanyahu. The tweet was posted amid ongoing competition within the left-wing bloc for votes and political standing.
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- Ronen Menelis, Gadi Eisenkot's campaign manager, criticized Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid in a deleted tweet.
- Menelis suggested Bennett and Lapid were focused on internal competition, not replacing Netanyahu.
- The tweet was posted on social media platform X and later removed.
- The incident occurred amidst competition within the left-wing bloc for voter support.
- Menelis included a screenshot suggesting Bennett's camp believed they could surpass Eisenkot in polls.
Ronen Menelis, campaign manager for Gadi Eisenkot, posted a critical tweet on the social media platform X targeting Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, which he later deleted. The tweet alluded to internal struggles within the left-wing bloc, suggesting Bennett and Lapid were focused on their competition rather than the shared goal of replacing Prime Minister Netanyahu's government.
Menelis wrote, "Crazy, I almost started to believe their goal was to beat Bibi. Eyes on the prize until the (bloc's) victory," accompanying his post with a screenshot from a Walla news report. The screenshot indicated that Bennett's camp believed they could have surpassed Eisenkot in polls if the election were three weeks later.
The tweet emerged amid ongoing competition among parties in the left-wing bloc for voter support and political standing as the election approaches. Despite public declarations of a common objective to unseat the Netanyahu government, the internal rivalries are reportedly creating tension within the bloc.
