On this episode of “Culture Matters,” Rabbi Rafi Eis argues that Gadi Eisenkot is preparing “the greatest bait and switch in Israeli political history.” Eisenkot cannot reach 61 seats, because Avigdor Liberman refuses to sit with Mansour Abbas’s Islamist Ra’am party or Ahmad Tibi’s anti-Zionist Joint List, and Eis predicts Shas will reject any left-wing deal over the draft issue to protect its base of IDF families in the south and north. Eis calls Eisenkot’s “national emergency government” plan, a minority government of 46 seats, an attack on democracy, noting that past emergency governments before the Six-Day War and after October 7 widened an existing majority. In the second segment, Eis looks at Ross Douthat’s interview with President Trump, in which Trump said “I do hate some of my enemies and I always will.” Eis sides with Trump, saying it is unjust to forgive people who have not repented, and he uses the Book of Jonah, the messianic era as a physical world, and the concept of karet (spiritual excision) to explain Trump’s focus on his legacy in this world.