Eisenkot slams Netanyahu's unity government call as 'political spin,' says negotiations scheduled

Yashar chairman, MK Gadi Eisenkot, said on Saturday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu call for a unity government is "a political spin," and that he "knows full well that such a meeting has already been scheduled."

"It is set for tomorrow, between the negotiating teams of Yashar and Likud," Eisenkot said. "My fellow Israelis, this is just the latest ruse: Netanyahu calls for negotiations - even though they have already been arranged - and claims to desire unity, yet he simultaneously desecrates a formal state proceeding in the Knesset, sowing division and incitement as if there were no tomorrow."

He also said that "such a trick won't work on him," adding that Netanyahu "knows that the conditions for joining an emergency government under my leadership include accepting the principles I have outlined and parting ways with the extremists."