Moshe Feiglin

Moshe Feiglin has a few positive points to his favor.

(1. An original mind, he is the only politician who addresses the underlying reason for the poisonous malaise that envelopes this country. He understands that once you cut your ties with Jewish history (a classic example is the "Israeli" Nobel Prize winner Shimon Peres), you destroy the justice of your claim to Eretz Yisrael and your right to be here at all. This is the philosophic dilemma which confronts the left and causes them serious ethical problems. Deep down - actually not so deep down - they do not believe we have the right to be in "Palestine" at all. So perhaps if we make enough concessions to the "Palestianians, the real owners of this country" and de-Judaize Israel completely, maybe, maybe, maybe, the "Palestinians" will come to love us and they'll forgive us for stealing their land. Our leftist brethren really think that by the way.

Of course, as Bismark said, "he who would buy off his enemies with concessions will find that he never will be rich enough." Our problem is that we do not see those who would kill us as enemies at all; our potential murderers are merely "the other". Feiglin understands the major difference.

(2. Feiglin understands that the population is Israel is not "20% religious and 80% secular" as the leftest media constantly tells us. The vast majority of this country are "traditional" and not "secular". Every poll confirms this. And unlike the media stars and the vast majority of newspaper editors and columnists, they have not lost their ties to Jewish religion, culture, and history. (It is no mystery why, as the three major newspapers vear ever more leftwards, they continually drop readers by the hundreds of thousands.)

(3. The pool of Likud voters represent the only non-"sectarian" party in Israel. The other paries are as sectarian as Agudah, Shas, and the Mafdal. Meretz represnts Ashkenazi leftist intellectual and their"wannabees"; Kadima basically represents the well-healed dwellers of the skyscrapers and villas in Gush Dan and those unfortunates still brainwashed by the media; Labor represents the powerful Va'adei Ovdim (port workers, electric co. etc.) and Histradut flunkies. etc. The list goes on. On the other hand, unlike any other party, the Likud voters really are drawn from every class and group in Israel; it really is a microcosm of Israel i society.

(4. Small parties play no serious role in today's Israel political system and they are easily bought and sold. Look at Shas, Agudah, and Yisrael Beiteinu; they have no real influence and for the crumbs they receive, they shamelessly maintain the Olmert regime. On the other hand, there are some spectacular people (Dr Aryeh Eldad for one) who are neutralized because they are members of miniscule parties that are totally irrevelant. Feiglin is the only one in the "nationalist camp" who understands that the real battle must be fought within the larger parties; intelligently he chose the Likud.

I wish there was a labor equivalent.

I do not know if Feiglin is the man to become chairman of the Likud and possibly Prime Minister - some of his propaganda is very naive - but at least he understands the larger picture which puts him in a class by himself.

For these reasons, I feel that Moshe Feiglin deserves consideration.

Catriel Sugarman