WhatsappBombshell!
Of all people, a senior Biden administration official just exposed Gadi Eisenkot’s election narrative for what it is, highlighting why nobody should consider voting for any center-left party that would make him Prime Minister.
And Israeli voters, and every Jew who truly cares about Israel, must pay attention. Because the truth matters…
Brett McGurk was President Joe Biden’s top Middle East official and one of the Americans most deeply involved in the hostage negotiations throughout the Gaza war. He was in the rooms. He spoke with the Israelis, Qataris, Egyptians and Hamas. He dealt with the negotiations for 15 months.
And now, in a remarkable interview with Dan Senor, McGurk has given us an inside account of those negotiations.
The problem for Eisenkot?
McGurk’s account collides head-on with the story Eisenkot is selling Israeli voters.
And remember: McGurk is hardly some Netanyahu campaign surrogate. He served Joe Biden. His administration repeatedly pressured Netanyahu and publicly clashed with Israel over the conduct of the war.
Which makes what he is saying so important.
Eisenkot, as the whole deep-state political left campaign throughout the war, is saying that Netanyahu killed the hostage deals. McGurk tells a very different story.
Eisenkot is now campaigning on the claim that Netanyahu repeatedly allowed political considerations, especially pressure from Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, to prevent hostage agreements.
It is a devastating accusation.
There is just one problem.
According to the man representing the Biden administration inside those negotiations, that is not what happened.
Take the first hostage agreement.
Eisenkot portrays Netanyahu as essentially allowing politics to derail its continuation.
McGurk explains that Hamas stopped releasing the young women it was obligated to release according to the deal and wanted Israel to move on to another category of hostages.
That was not some minor technical disagreement.
Israel believed additional young women were alive.
Agreeing to skip over them would effectively have meant abandoning them.
Israel refused.
Hamas violated the deal.
And here is an important detail Eisenkot apparently hopes Israelis have forgotten:
Gadi Eisenkot himself was sitting in the War Cabinet. He knows the truth yet is lying about it!
Then came the later negotiations.
Again, Eisenkot’s campaign narrative portrays Netanyahu as the obstacle.
Again, McGurk’s firsthand testimony tells a very different story.
Israel accepted frameworks involving extraordinarily painful concessions.
Hamas repeatedly refused.
When President Biden publicly presented a proposal on May 31, 2024, Netanyahu had accepted the framework.
What happened next?
Hamas didn’t agree to it.
The negotiations dragged on.
According to McGurk’s account, Hamas repeatedly introduced new demands and complications while Iran was encouraging Hamas not to compromise.
And there is an even more extraordinary example.
McGurk describes meeting Netanyahu in December 2024.
Netanyahu told the Americans that if Hamas provided the agreed list of 33 hostages, he would accept the deal.
The obstacle?
Hamas.
McGurk says Hamas would not provide the required list.
Think about that.
For years, throughout the war, Israelis have been bombarded by our own mainstream media and political left politicians with the accusation that Netanyahu simply did not want a hostage agreement. That he was “killing the hostages”, that he “wanted them dead”. Those were their actual words fed to the Israeli public day after day. They even wrote a book about it bashing Netanyahu as doing everything to abandon the hostages in Gaza.
Now one of Biden’s own senior officials, the man actually involved in negotiating those agreements, is publicly acknowledging that Netanyahu always said yes and that it Hamas that prevented the deals from moving forward.
And then there is the issue Eisenkot gets most dangerously wrong: military pressure.
For years, Israel’s old security establishment sold us the same failed worldview:
Restraint.
Containment.
International guarantees.
Dependence on foreign actors.
Avoid escalation.
Keep things quiet.
October 7 should have buried that conception forever.
Yet listen to Eisenkot today and you hear echoes of the same thinking. Eizenkot shared with the Israeli public his planned policies in the Nadav Perry podcast.
Who will disarm Hamas? An international force and then tangy thousand trained Gazans, trained in Egypt!
Who will disarm Hezbollah? Strengthen the Lebanese Army under international auspices.
Iran? Don’t talk about bringing down the regime. That won’t happen. Rather, get international supervision and an agreement over uranium.
Again and again: Eizenkot believes in having others solve our security problems, through international arrangements. No victory. No defeat of a jihadi enemy. No trusting our own security and defense establishment to provide to secure our nation.
And on top of that, in an earlier interview he supported the idea of allowing 150,000 Gazans into Israel to work.
Not only does he fail to provide a security doctrine that will protect us and prevent future invasions/massacres, he fails to acknowledge the jihadi enemy we are up against and instead let them back into our homes for work!
Eizenkot is a disaster for Israeli security, never learning the lessons from Oct. 7.
Our future must be in our hands.
And McGurk’s account of the hostage negotiations reinforces precisely that lesson.
Military pressure and hostage negotiations were not opposites.
IDF Military pressure helped create the conditions for the hostage deals.
Hamas did not become more reasonable because Israel became weaker.
The equation changed as Hamas lost options, Sinwar was eliminated and Israel demonstrated that it would continue fighting.
That distinction is fundamental.
Because Eisenkot presents himself as the responsible security alternative to Netanyahu, yet he is anything but.
Leadership is not merely having been a former general.
Leadership means understanding your enemy.
Leadership means learning from catastrophic mistakes.
Leadership means having the strength to withstand enormous pressure when Israel’s survival requires it.
And leadership means telling voters the truth, even when the historical record is inconvenient for your election campaign.
Israeli voters should ask themselves a simple question.
Why does Eisenkot’s version differ so dramatically from the account of the Biden official who was actually inside the negotiations?
McGurk has no obvious political reason to rescue Netanyahu.
Quite the opposite. The Biden administration frequently pressured Netanyahu, and McGurk himself acknowledges serious disagreements with him.
Yet when McGurk recounts what actually happened inside the negotiating rooms, we repeatedly encounter a reality far more complicated, and far less flattering to Eisenkot’s campaign narrative.
Hamas obstructed deals.
Hamas manipulated hostage categories.
Hamas refused terms.
Hamas exploited international pressure on Israel.
And military pressure repeatedly mattered.
That makes Eisenkot’s retrospective rewriting especially troubling.
That makes the whole deep state political left campaign blaming Netanyahu evil.
Because this is not merely an argument about history.
Gadi Eisenkot is asking Israelis to make him prime minister.
Eisenkot is not as the strong security leader Israelis are being sold, but as an appeaser and divider, a general turned politician willing to turn extraordinarily complicated wartime decisions into simplistic accusations against Netanyahu while minimizing the central role played by Hamas.
That is not leadership material.
And perhaps the greatest irony is who is helping expose it.
Not Netanyahu.
Not Smotrich.
Not Ben-Gvir.
Not Channel 14.
Brett McGurk, a senior official from the Biden administration.
Who could have imagined that a Biden official would provide Israeli voters with some of the strongest evidence they need to convince Israeli voters that Eizenkot as Prime Minister is a danger to our lives.
Israelis should listen to both interviews.
Listen to Eisenkot.
Then listen to the man who was actually inside the negotiations.
Compare the stories yourself.
Because Israel’s coming election is not merely about personalities.
It is about whether we return to the mentality of October 6, dependence, appeasement, restraint, ignoring our evil jihadi enemy called “palestinians”, and faith in international guarantees, or continue the painful transformation toward an Israel that understands one basic truth:
Nobody will defend the Jewish people better than the Jewish people.
Our security must be in our hands.
Our soldiers must be empowered to win.
Our enemies must understand that attacking Jews carries an unbearable price.
And our leaders must have the strength to pursue Israel’s interests even when Washington, Europe, the media and our own establishment demand otherwise.
October 7 was the price of a failed conception.
We cannot elect that failed worldview back into power.
I pray enough Israelis wake up to the lies being fed to them by the political left and amplified by the mainstream media before they vote.
The good news is that Israelis are waking up. Maybe not as quickly as we would like, but the awakening is happening.
Strengthen your faith. Help me at the Pulse of Israel share these truths and wake up as many Jews and Israelis as possible.
We are waking up. We are getting stronger. And with God’s help, we will win.
Am Yisrael Chai!!!
PS – McGurk’s full Oct. 4 episode is available through Call Me Back with Dan Senor, which is particularly useful as the page includes a full transcript as well. One can also listen to the full interview of Eisenkot uttering these lies and dangerous policies in the Oct. 4 episode with Nadav Perry.
