December 28, 2011...
On
January 31, 2012, the Likud Party will be holding its election for Party
Chairman. The winner of this primary will be the candidate who will run
for Prime Minister of Israel from the Likud at the next general election.
If the challenger - Moshe Feiglin - defeats current Prime Minister
Netanyahu, the government coalition will most likely fall and the general
election will be held within a few months.
As
all current polls show overwhelmingly that the Likud will win the next
election, in essence, this vote is to determine who will be the next Prime
Minister of the State of Israel.
There
are only two candidates vying for this position - Moshe Feiglin and
Benjamin Netanyahu, and they have wildly differing
viewpoints.
Mr.
Feiglin, President of Manhigut Yehudit - the largest faction of the Likud
party - wishes to create a strong, proud Jewish State by ending the
fraudulent Oslo Process, ending the taking of all foreign aid, and
re-attaching Israelis to their Jewish roots.
Feiglin,
who won 24% of the vote at the last election, and about whom former
Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg said last week is the 'most important
man today in Israeli political discourse', wishes for Israel to be a
Light Unto the Nations, as opposed to
Mr. Netanyahu’s stated desire to find Israel's Place
Among the Nations. Mr. Feiglin feels that when
Israel’s decisions are made taking into account that Israel should be run
according to Jewish values – as opposed to being run according to secular,
socialist or globalist values – then Israel will make better decisions and
will be on course toward a brighter future.
On
the other hand, Mr. Netanyahu is actively trying to create a Jew-free
state of ‘palestine’ inside the biblical heartland of Israel. He pursues
this policy even though earlier in his career he stated that the
‘palestinians’ already had a state called Jordan and that they had no
right to have another one at Israel’s expense. At that time, Mr. Netanyahu
also agreed with Newt Gingrich’s recent comments about the ‘palestinians’
being a modern invention created solely to oppose the state of
Israel.
The
false peace of Oslo has brought nothing but death, destruction and the
loss of belief in our own cause to Israel and to Jews worldwide. Israeli
withdrawals and statements like the recent one from Mr. Netanyahu that he
will "be creative when it comes to [dividing] Jerusalem" only serve to
raise the confidence of anti-Semites and terrorists around the globe. It
is time for Israel to reverse course before it fades
away.
In little more than
a month, on January 31, nothing less than the fate of the state of Israel
may be decided.
Moshe Feiglin is
the president of Manhigut Yehudit and a candidate for Chairman of the
Likud party. He led the Zo Artzeinu non-violent civil
disobedience struggle against the Oslo Accords.
Moshe graduated from Or Etzion yeshiva, served as a
captain in an IDF combat unit, and is the author of the
books Where There Are No Men and War of Dreams. Moshe and his
family live in Karnei Shomron, Israel.
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