Otzma Yehudit can pressure Netanyahu since the rest of his coalition is relatively on board with giving them some of what they want, it’s not something that’s a deal breaker for them. And Netanyahu will not willingly give up power so if he can get their confidence by throwing them a bone while the rest of his coalition shrugs or applauds then whatever.

That would not be the case for an Eisenkot government. Ex. The Democrats align with right wing Yisrael Beiteinu mainly on wanting to reduce Haredi privileges/influence and on being against Netanyahu. So part of the reason they’re working together immediately blows up in an Eisenkot government as that case has it as a given that Netanyahu is out of power and goes to trial, making the stability of the anti-Netanyahu coalition much more precarious. Then if on top of that The Democrats try to pass legislation amenable to Arabs, that’s working directly against Yisrael Beiteinu’s ideological aims. The latter party very vocally maintains that it doesn’t even want to sit with Ra’am, let alone sitting with the Joint List and even further to actually implementing policy that the Joint List desires, so chances are very high that they would blow up the coalition and then put Israel back to new elections. For example, a coalition was assembled that saw Netanyahu kicked out of power in 2021 and included the Arab party Ra’am. It was dissolved a mere year and a half later because of irreconcilable disputes on the matter of the regular extension of emergency regulations that allows Israel to extend legal protections to settlers. In the aftermath the Zionist parties that sat with Ra’am were severely punished by their voters which allowed Netanyahu to sweep back into power.

That’s all to say, if an Eisenkot government were to come into power, it would be extremely unstable and likely not very interested in litigating the issues most likely to blow up its own coalition, even under pressure.

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