Israeli opposition officials have dismissed prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s newly unveiled “security doctrine” out of hand, calling it a collection of empty slogans and blasting him for seeking to use the document to divert attention from his regime’s failures just nine days before general elections.

Remarking following the release of the material on Sunday, Gadi Eisenkot, head of the Yashar Party and a former Israeli army chief of staff, said the document exposed the absence of any credible strategic foundation for the regime’s security, while Yesh Atid chief Yair Lapid described it as superficial and bizarre.

The document outlines 10 self-described principles for the regime’s security, advocating further aggression, regional “buffer zones,” and a more offense-oriented military.

It credits the regime’s unwarranted aggression against Iran for “thwarting an imminent existential nuclear threat,” rehashing the allegation Tel Aviv has been using consistently, but in the absence of any proof to provoke the United States into joining it in wars against the Islamic Republic.

Additionally, the material considers the regime’s aggression against Gaza, Lebanon, and Yemen to have been effective in “weakening” regional resistance movements.

Eisenkot denounced Netanyahu for electoral manipulation, noting that the material had been issued just “nine days before the elections.”

He also reminded that the Netanyahu regime was responsible for “the most serious failure and disaster in Israel’s history.” He was referring to its unprecedented defeat in the face of the historic Operation al-Aqsa Flood, during which Gaza-based resistance fighters stormed the occupied territories and captured hundreds of Zionist settlers.

Eisenkot, meanwhile, railed against Netanyahu for having opened the gates of unyielding retaliation onto the regime. He noted that the regime’s regional campaigns of aggression that followed the al-Aqsa Flood have triggered far-and-wide reprisal that has turned “all fronts ablaze.”

The document, he added, “is nothing more than two blank pages containing slogans that have no connection to any genuine security doctrine.” “Above all, it exposes the complete emptiness of the strategic foundation Netanyahu has left Israel with, as well as his disregard for the security of illegal settlers, Eisenkot said.

The premier is again trying to manipulate the settlers’ opinion and stir up fears to divert attention from the lies characterizing his election campaign, the opposition figure concluded.

‘Looks like AI work’

Lapid also questioned the document’s credibility, saying, “Even by Netanyahu’s current standards, marked by exhaustion and detachment from reality, this document appears superficial and bizarre, as though it were written using a free version of an AI chatbot.”

“It is difficult to regard two pages of headlines as a ‘security doctrine.’ In its entirety, the document is nothing more than an attempt to deal with the failures and disasters for which Netanyahu himself bears responsibility.”