Israeli - SECURITY

National pride, an army geared to win and faith in G-d.

Israel's enemies will give nothing and receive nothing. Enemies must be defeated.

National pride in all diplomatic interactions.

Application of Israeli sovereignty on all land in Israel's hands.

Non-Jews who do not accept Israeli sovereignty should be encouraged to emigrate from Israel.

The goals of the army will be defined as liberation of the Land of Israel, defense of all areas currently in our hands and responsibility for the security of every Jew.

The ethical code of the Israeli army will be modified to conform with these goals and with Jewish ethics.

A military prepared to fight to achieve its goals deters the enemy from aggression.

Security for Israel and its inhabitants is a direct result of strengthened family values and education. If a Jew hasn't learned the real significance of the Land of Israel and if he is not loyal to his homeland, the message that he unwittingly broadcasts to his enemies is that his Land is free for the taking. Israel's lack of Jewish values and Jewish identity is the cause of our severe security problem. Oslo and the Road Map offer a solution -- to base Israel's security and very existence on justifying the claims of our enemies. These solutions have brought nothing but terror and death. What we need is the complete opposite; instead of justifying our enemies, we must immediately reverse the Oslo process. We must proclaim Jewish sovereignty over all the parts of the Land of Israel in our hands (as written in the Likud constitution) and regard the civilian populace that promotes terror as an enemy in every way.

The Temple Mount Has Already Been Ceded

We are in the midst of a strategic process to cede the Temple Mount. In the past, negotiations were first announced amidst handshakes and fanfare on a lawn in Washington, while the Right demonstrated. The current process is just the opposite: PM Netanyahu has already reached agreements in principle and now he is going to create the facts on the ground and get the public accustomed to the new reality.

The most potent landmines in the past negotiations were Jerusalem in general and the Temple Mount, in particular. Even with Ehud Barak, who was willing to give everything away, the deal fell through over the Temple Mount. That is why the opposite method is being employed in the current negotiations: First, Israel cedes the Temple Mount and Jerusalem while declaring that we are doing no such thing. But the facts on the ground show that we are – in front of our eyes. At a certain stage, the PM will have to admit the truth. The explanation will be, ‘Just as no Jew steps foot in the Eastern neighborhoods of Jerusalem, so no Jew will step foot on the Temple Mount.’ This is a process in which the government is peeling layer after layer of Israeli sovereignty from the Temple Mount.

All the Israeli governments since 1967 have ceded the Temple Mount, step by step. On Netanyahu’s watch, this phenomenon has accelerated and in my evaluation is coordinated within the framework of a plan: not a capitulation here and there, but an overall plan.


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Who is the Sovereign in Israel?

Nov. 6, '13


Today, after 17 years of investigation and trials, former (and future) Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was acquitted by a unanimous court decision. Lieberman’s story forces us to face a serious question: Who is the sovereign in the State of Israel? The people, by means of their elected officials? Or bureaucrats, who appointed themselves?

I have decided to visit the elected mayor of Nazareth, Mr. Shimon Gefso, who is currently under house arrest for corruption charges. I know – they will accuse me of chasing after the votes of the Likud Central Committee; they will try to make me look guilty of corruption. But I am going.

I am not chasing after anybody. I will gain nothing from Gefso. Personally, I believe that he is innocent and that this is a classic “Dreyfus” case. But the real question has nothing to do with the guilt or innocence of the newly re-elected mayor of Nazareth. Just as with Lieberman, the question is who is sovereign in this State? We, the people, by means of the people whom we have elected? Or a band of bureaucrats that has appointed itself as lords of the land?

The lords of the land attempted to prevent the residents of Nazareth from voting for Gefso. But the people of Nazareth (Heaven help us) disobeyed the lords of the land and elected him, nevertheless. Now they are teaching the sovereign – the people – a humiliating lesson. In a media-saturated operation, they have chosen to arrest Gefso just days after the election. They even had the audacity to demand a court order to distance him from city hall for 30 days; in other words, precisely the critical days in which he is supposed to get his municipal coalition together and begin working in earnest. As far as they are concerned, Nazareth can go to the dogs. The main thing is that they have the last word and that they will remain the sovereign and not the voters.

These lords must understand that the people have had their say at the ballot box. They must allow Gefso to fulfill the wishes of the public. In my opinion, all investigations and indictments against elected officials should be postponed until their term is over. I can say this now, because I wrote the same thing in an article about one of the politicians for whom I have nothing but contempt: the post-Amonah Ehud Olmert. This is what I wrote in May 2008:

Judicial Tyranny
I don’t think that it is proper to investigate a prime minister while he is in office. Not that I have anything good to say about Olmert. I know that he is corrupt and I have absolutely no good wishes for the prime minister responsible for Amona. But on principle, I think that there is a serious flaw in the fact that he is being investigated while he is in office.

What has actually taken place here is that a very small group of judicial officials – a group that was not elected by the public and whose motives are completely unknown – suddenly decides to investigate the man whom the public has elected to lead the country. In other words, a collection of technocrats has more power than the public. They can depose or change the officials elected by the public as they see fit.

I do not know why they have sunk their fangs into Olmert and his unexplained wealth, but that is not important. What is important is that the power to choose leaders has been removed from the public and placed firmly under the control of “the rule of law gang,” as former Justice Minister Chaim Ramon so aptly described them.

An elected prime minister or government minister should have immunity from police investigations for suspected offenses committed before his election. Unusual cases should be brought before the Knesset, where a special majority would have to authorize an investigation. When the official in question finishes his term of office, the investigation would proceed. The media should be allowed to continue to report on findings pertaining to the case, and the public should be allowed to decide whether or not to vote for the official once again.
If we do not insist on proper judicial conduct now, we will surely pay for it later, when the “rule of law gang” will depose yet another – probably rightist - government.
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The lords of the land could have waited a half a year or so to go after Gefso. After all, they have waited for years until now. Why arrest him a week after the elections?

I have no idea what Shimon Gefso did or did not do. But one thing is completely clear to me. Nothing that Gefso did can be more corrupt than a legal advisor or a retired judge who robs the public coffers to the tune of NIS86,000 per month for his pension. There are currently 300 people from the legal system who star at the top of the pyramid of those who have dug their hands deeply into the public’s pocket and live the good life as a result of this essential corruption.

I am tired of all these stories. I was elected to the Knesset by the public, the sovereign. No bureaucrat or police officer will intimidate me. I will take my ethical credit and the public trust that I enjoy as Deputy Speaker of the Knesset to Shimon Gefso’s home to declare: The People are the sovereign – not self-appointed bureaucrats. Harass organized crime, drug dealers and those guilty of extortion. That is what you are being paid for. Remember that you are public servants – not the public’s lords.
 

Moshe Feiglin: Israel Must Defend Itself with no Interference

It's not much of a surprise that the US administration has turned its back on Israel - both in its negotiations with Iran and in pressuring Israel on the 'Palestinian' issue. The following is just a partial list of prominent 'friends of Israel' in the Obama administration, who are very close to the policy makers.

Arif Alikhan – Assistant Secretary for Policy Development for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Mohammed Elibiary – Homeland Security Adviser.

Rashad Hussain – Special Envoy to the (OIC) Organization of the Islamic Conference.

Salam al-Marayati – Obama Adviser, founder of Muslim Public Affairs Council and its current executive director.

Imam Mohamed Magid – Obama's Sharia Czar, Islamic Society of North America.

Eboo Patel – Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships.

We can also mention US Ambassador to the UN, Samatha Power, former Special Adviser to Pres. Obama, who openly called for the establishment of a large international force to protect the Palestinians from Israel.

In truth, who exactly is part of the Obama administration is less important than where we in Israel are holding. I have warned time and again that the erroneous policy of passing the responsibility for the Iranian nuclear program from Israel to the rest of the world will eventually lead to a nuclear Iran. What do we expect of America? For years we have been telling them that Iran is their problem. "OK," the US is now saying to us. "You convinced us. It is our problem. So please sit still and let us take care of our problem our way."