It's easy to see which party is expected to get the most votes in the next Israeli Elections, because that's the party seen most in these sorts of headlines:
_____ Is Joining/Running in the Primaries of the Likud
We have Benny Begin, Danny Seaman, Effie Eitam, Uzi Landau and the deadline isn't even close.
None of these people would make the Likud more attractive to me. Sorry, to say so. Benny and Uzi and Effie, too, are considered honest, but they're not great politicians. They're missing charisma and people skills.
Uzi loves to compromise and be "loved." We saw that in the previous elections. He doesn't have the "drive" needed. I was going to say "killer instinct," because it's not "pc."
Benny, when I last saw him running for offices, was depressing. He didn't inspire, or let's say that he only saw the black.
I heard Effie Eitam speak, and he wasn't much brighter, except when he spoke of religion.
We have Benny Begin, Danny Seaman, Effie Eitam, Uzi Landau and the deadline isn't even close.
None of these people would make the Likud more attractive to me. Sorry, to say so. Benny and Uzi and Effie, too, are considered honest, but they're not great politicians. They're missing charisma and people skills.
Uzi loves to compromise and be "loved." We saw that in the previous elections. He doesn't have the "drive" needed. I was going to say "killer instinct," because it's not "pc."
Benny, when I last saw him running for offices, was depressing. He didn't inspire, or let's say that he only saw the black.
I heard Effie Eitam speak, and he wasn't much brighter, except when he spoke of religion.
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Shalom!
Effie Eitam is "mamlachti", and I think that that's basically how he would describe himself. It should not come as a surprise that he's trying to join the Likud - and not like Feiglin is.
Unfortunately the "musical chairs" analogy you used in another post is quite accurate.
Hadassa
Thanks, Hadassa, I'd love to post an article by you explaining "mamlachti" to my readers. Many people don't understand, and it's not just the Hebrew.
I think it means a "blind loyalty to the State of Israel.
Seriously, I'd love an article.
Shalom!
Sorry, I did mean to define it. "Mamlachti" literally means "statist": the state is right, no matter what. "Blind loyalty to the state" is a good definition.
People who describe themselves as statist are proud of it. People who describe others as statist use it as a derogatory term because the government is not always in the right and should not be considered holy or almost holy. The LAND of Israel is always holy. Unfortunately the state and/or current government can be the exact opposite.
Language note: A "melech" is a king. A "mamlacha" is a kingdom. "Mamlachti" is blind devotion to the "mamlacha", which today is a government, not a kingdom.
More later.
Hadassa
Thanks
The Germans who used "obeying orders" to kill Jews are an example and the IDF soldiers who removed innocent Jews from their homes during Disengagement are also examples, right?
And there will be people who don't want to admit the similarities.
Shalom!
That's right. The similarities are in the mindset. We should not confuse the severity of the acts because it diminishes the impact of both. As evil as the expulsion forces were and are nothing compares to concentration camps and gas chambers.
I will never forget seeing the rows of black uniformed Jewish soldiers encircling the synagogue of K'far Darom. I had a clear view from a second story window. They looked like SS Stormtroopers. And the IDF had the gall to put little embroidered Israeli flags on the front of every uniform. It was just such an incredible sight. There were a few Holocaust survivors in Gush Katif. I can't imagine what they thought.
One of my former (and future, we'll be back!) neighbors is the daughter of two Holocaust survivors. Her father doesn't like to make comparisons, but he did say that the last time so many synagogues were destroyed at one time was Kristallnacht (sp.?).
Unfortunately there were many rabbis who ignored their rabbi, Rav Shapira ztz"l, and told their students not to refuse orders. Even according to the IDF Code of Ethics they should have refused orders.
Eventually truth will win, but it's going to be painful until then.
Hadassa
The longer it takes for the truth to come out and be recognized the more it will hurt.
Thanks so much for writing.
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