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Sunday, October 20, 2013

Video: Moshe Feiglin: The Riddle

For those of you who are wondering who Moshe Feiglin is, here's a video (in English or Hebrew with English subtitles) that will tell you all about him.

You might be surprised.

Let's go to the videotape (Hat Tip: NY Nana).

Labels: Manhigut Yehudit, Moshe Feiglin, Oslo accords

Friday, November 23, 2012

Has Feiglin's time come?

I mentioned in earlier posts that the Likud primary is taking place on Sunday. I don't think anyone in the mainstream media wants to come out and say it, but the tone of this article indicates that many believe that Moshe Feiglin's time in the Likud Knesset delegation has finally come.

Polls will open at 9 a.m. and close at 10 p.m. in 132 sites across the country to enable the Likud’s 123,351 members to choose among the 97 candidates for less than 30 realistic slots on the party’s joint list with Yisrael Beytenu.

Netanyahu would like top slots on the list to go to Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz, Minister-without-Portfolio Bennie Begin and former minister Tzachi Hanegbi.

His associates said it is important to him that room be found on the crowded list for Intelligence Agencies Minister Dan Meridor, Home Front Defense Minister Avi Dichter, and economist Shlomo Maoz.

None of Netanyahu’s candidates are expected to be supported by groups of Judea and Samaria residents who have flocked to the party in recent years. Internal groups in the party vowed to block supporters of a Palestinian state from the list.

The hawks in the Likud support the party’s sole minister who lives in Judea and Samaria, Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein, as well as ministers Gideon Sa’ar and Gilad Erdan and MKs Danny Danon, Tzipi Hotovely, Yariv Levin and Vice Premier Silvan Shalom.

But much of the Likud’s list is expected to be decided in political deals made by power-brokers in the party like MK Haim Katz, Transportation Minister Israel Katz, and supporters of party activist Moshe Feiglin. Party sources said that unlike past elections, Netanyahu is not working hard behind the scenes to prevent Feiglin from getting elected.

I am a member of the Likud. I have gotten phone calls so far from four different campaigns: Zev Elkin, Sylvan Shalom, Gila Gamliel, and Moshe Feiglin's Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish leadership). As many of you know, I am a supporter of Manhigut Yehudit (although I didn't tell the callers that).

If the past is any indication, if I want to get anything done on Sunday, I had better shut the phones off :-)

Labels: Binyamin Netanyahu, Likud party, Manhigut Yehudit, Moshe Feiglin

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

How to vote in the Likud primary

If you're a member of the Likud (I am), you can find out how to vote in next week's Likud primary by going here (it's in English).

Labels: Binyamin Netanyahu, Likud party, Manhigut Yehudit, Moshe Feiglin

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

They're not laughing anymore

I haven't read the whole thing yet, but here's an interview with Likud leadership candidate Moshe Feiglin, who might - just might - upset Prime Minister Netanyahu in next week's Likud primary. Part 1 is here and part 2 is here.

And yes, I recommend that you vote for Moshe Feiglin in next week's Likud primary. He's entirely l'Shem Shamayim (for the sake of Heaven).

Labels: Binyamin Netanyahu, Likud party, Manhigut Yehudit, Moshe Feiglin

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Watch a live webcast of the only English language debate of the Likud campaign NOW

As many of you know, the Likud will be voting for a new central committee on January 31. Tonight, the only English language debate of the campaign is taking place in Beit Shemesh.

The debate features:

* DANIEL TAUBER, Executive Director of Likud Anglos

* EMMANUEL NAVON, Candidate for the Likud Knesset list

* SHMUEL SACKETT, International Director of Manhigut Yehudit [pictured above so you all know whom I am supporting].

It is moderated by Gil Hoffman of the Jerusalem Post.

You can watch a live webcast of the debate by going here from the time this post is posted until 10:15 pm Israel time (3:15 pm US Eastern). I don't know yet whether there will be a video replay.

Labels: Likud party, Manhigut Yehudit, Moshe Feiglin, Shmuel Sackett

Tuesday, January 03, 2012

A storm is brewing

A storm is brewing here in Israel. What's it about?

Let's go to the videotape.

I urge all those who are able to do so to donate to Moshe Feiglin's campaign. And I urge all those who are eligible to come out and vote for him on January 31.

Labels: Binyamin Netanyahu, Likud party, Manhigut Yehudit, Moshe Feiglin

Feiglin's brilliant commercial

I apologize in advance that this is only going to be presented in Hebrew, because it's priceless. I will try to explain it as much as possible, but if anyone from Manhigut is reading this (you know you are), please try to subtitle the videos for readers abroad.

As many of you know, the Likud is having internal elections at the end of the month and Moshe Feiglin is running against Binyamin Netanyahu. What I'm about to show you is an advertisement for the campaign kickoff event tomorrow night (which I cannot make) and what you're about to hear is a Feiglin commercial. The commercial is based upon an ad that has been flooding the radio here for months (if not several years) in which someone calls for an insurance quote and gets a number that is well above the quote they got from a direct (without an agent) insurance company.

In the commercial, which was played Monday morning on Army Radio and drew compliments from Leftist broadcaster (okay, I probably don't have to say Leftist when it comes to Army Radio - they all are) Razi Barkai, someone asks about getting Supreme Court justices who represent the public, and gets asked if they will settle for having current Supreme Court Chief Justice Dorit Beinish replaced by one of the other justices. They say no, and then get told that if they really want Supreme Court Justices who represent the public will, they will have to vote for Feiglin (you will recall that Prime Minister Netanyahu tried to defend the current judicial selection process).

Let's go to the videotape.

Hmmm.

For a bonus, here's the campaign 'jingle.'

Let's go to the videotape.

Labels: Manhigut Yehudit, Moshe Feiglin

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Press Release: Moshe Feiglin Looks Forward to Crucial Head-to-Head Election versus Benjamin Netanyahu on January 31st

I received this press release by email:

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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The Moshe Feiglin Campaign website is www.MFLikud.com

Disclaimer: Donations to the Moshe Feiglin Campaign are not tax-deductible. Manhigut Yehudit neither endorses nor financially supports any candidate or political party.

Moshe Feiglin is running for Chairman of the Likud party. He strives to

Restore Jewish Values, Pride and Integrity to the State of Israel.

Am Yisrael Chai.

Hmmm.

Yes, the Burg claim is real.

Unfortunately, the video replays itself endlessly so at some point you will have to turn it off (if I get a new link for it, I will substitute that link).

Let's go to the videotape. There's more after the video.

I support Feiglin. As many of you know, I think quite highly of him. But an analysis that says that if Feiglin wins the Likud, he becomes Prime Minister, is way too simplistic.

If Feiglin wins the Likud, Netanyahu will do a Sharon and leave, and like when Sharon founded Kadima, it will have an effect on the political system in Israel and on the relative sizes of at least the Likud and Netanyahu's party. Some Likudniks - clearly not all and maybe not even most - will follow Netanyahu.

Of course, Kadima is now dying (projections show them doing poorly in a future election), and the same could happen to a breakaway party founded by Netanyahu. Eventually. But for now, it is possible that Netanyahu could found his own party and win an election even if Feiglin wins the Likud.

Labels: Binyamin Netanyahu, Likud party, Manhigut Yehudit, Moshe Feiglin

Friday, November 25, 2011

He whose name must not be spoken

A while back, Prime Minister Netanyahu engineered a change in how his party's central committee is selected in order to entrench the current regime, which favors him. Now, once again, Netanyahu is in danger of losing control of the Likud to 'the Right.' And once again, he is going to try some dirty tricks.

More than 100,000 Likud members will be eligible to vote on January 31 to elect members of the party’s influential central committee. In the first three months after that race, the committee is permitted to change the party’s constitution with a simple majority, rather than the two-thirds majority required most of the time.

Netanyahu has done everything possible to delay the vote, which was supposed to take place shortly after the 2009 general election. He went to several courts, including the Supreme Court, to get the vote postponed.

Hawks in the party used the time to register as many Likud members as possible in Judea and Samaria in an effort to shift the party to the Right. Meanwhile, Netanyahu barely signed up any new members who would be loyal to him.

Only three weeks ago did Likud MKs warn Netanyahu that he could lose control over the party if he did not take immediate action. He began legal proceedings to change the method of selecting central committee members, which would require a court order to delay the January 31 vote again.

Netanyahu wants to change a party rule that sets the number of central committee members from Judea and Samaria based on how many people in the region voted for Likud in the last election. The rule was set when most of the settlers voted for parties further to the Right, but in the last election, they voted overwhelmingly for the Likud.

The result of the rule is that the Likud branch in Samaria could end up having several times as many members as the branch in nearby Afula, for instance. Between the members from Judea and Samaria and other hawks among the Likud’s founders and from the Jerusalem branch, the party’s institutions could become much more right-wing from January 31 onward.

“Bibi has a real problem here,” a Likud activist said. “Because he fell asleep and didn’t deal with the situation, the central committee could make things very hard on him. He is losing control over the party.”

Were Netanyahu more successful in getting loyalists into the central committee, he might have used the key three months after the January 31 election to try to pass a proposal enabling him to reserve slots for candidates he would choose for the next election.

He might have used that right to reserve slots for Defense Minister Ehud Barak and members of his Independence Party.

In what could make things even harder for Netanyahu, hawkish MK Danny Danon is expected to run for the chairmanship of the Likud convention, which is what the central committee is called for its key three months following its election. Danon has vowed to prevent from Barak and his allies from joining Likud.

For the record, Barak claims he doesn't want to join the Likud. Well, we (yes, I'm a card-carrying member of the Likud) don't want him either.

Maybe Bibi should have talked to the 'bad guy' at the top of this post three years ago. Because it sounds like all is going according to the plan of he whose name must not be spoken.

Heh.

Labels: Binyamin Netanyahu, Likud Central Committee, Likud party, Manhigut Yehudit, Moshe Feiglin