By Maya Bengal
Israel Radio's "Reshet Bet"
12 Iyar/ 26 April '10
The man is teaching Bibi the facts of life. He is playing the democratic game. He wants elections for the party institutions in their proper time. It is Bibi who does not want them and who is exerting tremendous efforts to postpone them. He is afraid to reveal what he knows: The radical right wing of the Likud will get even stronger.
They called them "parasites," "leeches," and "provocations" but the time has come to admit the truth: Moshe Feiglin and the "Feiglinites" are the Likud. They are not a foreign influence. Twelve years have passed since Feiglin joined the Likud and since then, he has become more and more powerful. MK's woo him, the Likud Central Committee members stream to him, everyone wants to bask in his shade.
The attempts by Binyamin Netanyahu to expel him from the movement, to weaken him, to scare others with his name – have resoundingly failed. Ladies and gentlemen, Feiglin is a Likudnik. "Manhigut Yehudit" is alive and kicking in the Likud. This man has succeeded in garnering 23% support in the primaries for leadership of the movement in 2006. 23%! With such an impressive result it is clear that the man is in the Likud to stay.
So Feiglin is not robbing the Likud, he is conquering it. The positions that Feiglin represents – like "Jerusalem for eternity" and "not one inch" are no longer extreme. They are in the consensus. Here's the proof – Gilad Ardan, Silvan Shalom and Bogey Ya'alon also think that the Palestinians are not partners and that there is nothing to talk about and they will certainly strongly oppose the evacuation of settlements.
This man is teaching Bibi the facts of life. He is playing the democratic game. He wants elections for the party institutions in their proper time. It is Bibi who does not want them and who is exerting tremendous efforts to postpone them. He is afraid to reveal what he knows: The radical right wing of the Likud will get even stronger. Just imagine if the prime minister of Israel would want to continue his Knesset term for four more years and would propose legislation to cancel the general elections. What would we do then? We would climb the barricades and not rest until we would force elections – because democracy, even if it is not convenient for the head of the movement, cannot be surrendered. Or, as Churchill said: It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
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i have to agree with you, Sir. I believe Netanyahu is showing weakness to our "partners in peace." Here in the U.S. we hear conflicting reports about whether there is a "de facto" freeze in E. Jerusalem right now. If there is, then Bibi is playing with fire. He is capitulating before the parties even sit down to talks. Why not ask the PA to show some gesture of peace -- like removing their charter that calls for our destruction as a people, every last Jew.
ReplyDeleteObama humiliated and embarrassed Bibi in the White House a few weeks back. Why did he come with a flow chart trying to prostrate himself in front of Obama, justifying his non-role in the announcement of 1600 apartments being built in E. Jerusalem. He made himself look foolish and submissive, and Obama basically spat on him. Why did he send someone to the Nuclear Summit in D.C. so soon after these disrespectful behavior. So the Arab nations could ask for our disarmament?
Israel needs a leader that has faith and unshakeable determination to do what is right for the Jewish homeland. Dividing Israel would be the first step towards the demise of the Jewish state, both spiritually and politically. By now we all understand that the foreign policy shift away from Israel is extremely dangerous, and right now it would be best not to sit down with the PA. With the U.S. policy as it is under Obama, the Arab nations are emboldened to act against Israel. Netanyahu should disengage from talking to the PA, announcing they are not a legitimate or responsible peace partner, he should tell the U.S. that we want our relationship to continue but please stay out of the negotiations-- Israel doe not need a third party to deal with the Arabs. Also, he can tell the West Bank Arabs to confederate with Jordan, since they are citizens of Jordan. As for Gaza, Israel should declare it a state (an armed one) and treat them accordingly. The fact that they do not declare statehood is for their benefit, then they can cry foul all the time. By U.N. standards, they are a state. They have a government (Hamas), an army and international funding to buy all the weapons they desire.
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