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Gadi Eisenkot is the bereaved general trying to outmaneuver Netanyahu

Eisenkot's bloc is projected at forty-seven seats against fifty-four for Netanyahu's, and he says he will never join a unity government with him; the coalition math is unforgiving.

On air: Gloria Vance and Hank Ledger on Meet the Pressure
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  1. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorNetanyahu's bloc is projected at fifty-four seats, and Gadi Eisenkot's bloc has forty-seven, in a Knesset where sixty-one wins.

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo neither one has a majority.

  3. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorNeither. Eisenkot, a former general, told TIME he will not serve in a unity government with Netanyahu under any circumstances.

  4. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorOn Thursday he accused Netanyahu of an organized campaign to delegitimize the results.

  5. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAnd Netanyahu's side of that?

  6. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorEisenkot has campaigned on a formal state commission of inquiry into October seventh, which Netanyahu has reportedly blocked, according to Anadolu.

  7. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorA man who blocks the inquiry is now asking the country for the votes.

  8. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorEisenkot says he'll act calmly and with determination. Fifty-four plus forty-seven is a hundred and one, and nobody's allowed to sit together.

  9. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorA rare case where the arithmetic is the only one refusing to take a side.

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