If Netanyahu loses the upcoming Israeli election, a new government could get a small bump in U.S. public opinion polls. But without a major policy shift, it would be only temporary
For the past two months, Gadi Eisenkot has been consistently polling within reach of Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of Israel’s October 27 election. The retired IDF chief of staff has built his campaign on a simple contrast: Netanyahu’s theatrics versus Eisenkot’s plainspoken restraint, Netanyahu’s decadence and corruption versus the former general’s sacrifice as a grieving father whose son was killed fighting in Gaza.