{"id":77213,"date":"2026-08-10T09:55:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T14:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/10\/the-media-is-infatuated-with-gadi-eisenkot-the-anti-netanyahu-why-mehdi-hasan\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T09:55:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T14:55:38","slug":"the-media-is-infatuated-with-gadi-eisenkot-the-anti-netanyahu-why-mehdi-hasan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/10\/the-media-is-infatuated-with-gadi-eisenkot-the-anti-netanyahu-why-mehdi-hasan\/","title":{"rendered":"The media is infatuated with Gadi Eisenkot, the \u2018anti-Netanyahu\u2019. Why? | Mehdi Hasan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The challenger to Netanyahu is more of the same. His record makes that abundantly clear<\/p>\n<p>Western media outlets cannot seem to get enough of Gadi Eisenkot.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s former military chief and the leader of the newly formed Yashar party has been embraced by the international press as he and his party take the lead in the polls in the run-up to October\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n<p>Mehdi Hasan is Guardian US columnist and the editor-in-chief and CEO of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/zeteo.com\/\">Zeteo<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/aug\/10\/media-gadi-eisenkot-anti-netanyahu\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The challenger to Netanyahu is more of the same. His record makes that abundantly clear Western media outlets cannot seem to get enough of Gadi Eisenkot. Israel\u2019s former military chief and the leader of the newly formed Yashar party has been embraced by the international press as he and his party take the lead in &#8230; <a title=\"The media is infatuated with Gadi Eisenkot, the \u2018anti-Netanyahu\u2019. Why? | Mehdi Hasan\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/10\/the-media-is-infatuated-with-gadi-eisenkot-the-anti-netanyahu-why-mehdi-hasan\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The media is infatuated with Gadi Eisenkot, the \u2018anti-Netanyahu\u2019. Why? | Mehdi Hasan\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}