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Friday, August 30, 2019

Bibi-Feiglin Deal, Good for...?



Let's make it clear. I was never a Moshe Feiglin fan. How many of his diehard fans will really follow him back to Likud?

If you haven't heard. Prime Minister Binyamin Bibi Netanyahu has offered Moshe Feiglin a cabinet post if he'd agree to close down his political party and not run in the upcoming elections. Since Feiglin hadn't a chance to get into the Knesset, and his funds/donors have been drying out, he took the deal.

Feiglin missed out on getting into Knesset in the elections a few months ago, and polls have been showing that he'd do worse this time. By running again, he would have wasted one or two Knesset seats. The Zehut voters will probably go to a variety of political parties, to the Likud and further Right.

On the whole, this has been a rather pathetic "election season." That's no surprise, since Israel has been in "school vacation" mode since the end of June. Sunday, September 1 schools will reopen, Gd willing, and then, since it will also be Rosh Chodesh Elul, we'll enter "before the chaggim/Holidays" mode. Elections are scheduled for before Rosh Hashanah, a time when people are shopping, cooking or planning more vacations.

"None of the above" seems to be a very popular voting choice this time around. The winning parties, don't forget that Israeli Governments are coalitions," will be the ones that manage to convince their supporters that Election Day is for voting, not vacationing. You don't have to be a top notch pundit to predict that voter turnout will be awfully low. The Redo Knesset 2019 Israeli Elections have turned more Israelis into apathetic cynics.

 Gd willing we will have a good viable, strong government when this round of voting is over.


3 comments:

Mr. Cohen said...

Israel must reduce the number of hostile
foreign news reporters who work in Israel.

News reporters who tell lies about Israel
must be: placed on trial, thrown in jail,
and permanently banned from entering Israel.

News organizations that consistently show
a hostile bias against Israel must be
permanently banned from Israel, starting
with the NYT and BBC.

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On June 1, 2006, former New York City
mayor Ed Koch
wrote an opinion piece
in the [New York] Times titled
The New York Times’ Anti-Israel Bias,”
asserting that “the British Broadcasting
Corporation [BBC] and the New York Times
consistently carry news stories and editorials
that are slanted against Israel and sympathetic
to the Palestinian Authority and Hamas.”

SOURCE: Unfreedom of the Press
(chapter 6, page 157) by Mark R. Levin,
published by Threshold Editions, year 2019, NYC,
ISBN 9781476773094 * ISBN 1476773092

Mr. Cohen said...

Winston Churchill said:

“Some people like Jews and some do not,
but no thoughtful man can doubt the fact
that they are beyond all question the most
formidable and the most remarkable race
which has ever appeared in the world.”

SOURCE 1:
Winston Churchill, 1920 February 8,
in the Illustrated Sunday Herald,
a British Sunday newspaper

SOURCE 2: Churchill and the Jews
(chapter 4, page 38) by Martin Gilbert, 2007 CE

SOURCE 3:
Churchill: Walking With Destiny
(chapter 12, page 278) by Andrew Roberts,
Viking Publishers, year 2018,
ISBN 1101980990 & ISBN 9781101980996

CHRONOLOGY:
Winston Churchill was British Prime Minister
from 1940 to 1945 CE and from 1951 to 1955 CE.

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[Winston] Churchill wrote, on 3 June 1950 CE:

“The thought, the inspiration and the culture
of the Jews has been one of the vital dominants
in the world history.

There are none of the arts or sciences which
have not been enriched by Jewish achievements.”

SOURCE: Churchill and the Jews
(chapter 26, pages 280 to 281) by Martin Gilbert,
ISBN-10: 0805088644 * ISBN-13: 978-0805088649

CHRONOLOGY:
Sir Winston Churchill was British Prime Minister
from 1940 to 1945 CE and from 1951 to 1955 CE.

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[Winston] Churchill spoke [in year 1954 CE]
of the Jewish Nobel Prizewinners, whose contribution
to humanity in many fields had been “unique and absolute.”

There were nations of hundreds of millions
of people who had been unable to produce
a single Nobel Prizewinner, “and are the beneficiaries
every day from the genius and discoveries of the Jews.”

SOURCE: Churchill and the Jews
(chapter 26, page 290) by Martin Gilbert, year 2007 CE

CHRONOLOGY:
Sir Winston Churchill was British Prime Minister
from 1940 to 1945 CE and from 1951 to 1955 CE.

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Sir Winston Churchill said [in year 1955 CE]:

“You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem;
it is they who made it famous.”

SOURCE: Churchill and the Jews
(chapter 26, page 292) by Martin Gilbert, year 2007 CE
ISBN-10: 0805088644 * ISBN-13: 978-0805088649

CHRONOLOGY:
Sir Winston Churchill was British Prime Minister
from 1940 to 1945 CE and from 1951 to 1955 CE.

Mr. Cohen said...

In March 1921, Sir Winston Churchill
said to the Arabs of Haifa:


“It is manifestly right that the scattered
Jews should have a national centre and
a national home in which they might be
reunited, and where else but in Palestine,
with which the Jews for 3,000 years have
been intimately and profoundly associated?”

SOURCE:
Churchill: Walking With Destiny
(chapter 12, page 283) by Andrew Roberts,
Viking Publishers, 2018,
ISBN 1101980990 * ISBN 9781101980996

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Sir Winston Churchill said [in year 1955 CE]:

“You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem;
it is they who made it famous.”

SOURCE: Churchill and the Jews
(chapter 26, page 292) by Martin Gilbert, year 2007 CE
ISBN-10: 0805088644 * ISBN-13: 978-0805088649

CHRONOLOGY:
Sir Winston Churchill was British Prime Minister
from 1940 to 1945 CE and from 1951 to 1955 CE.

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Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz said:

“I refuse to bend over backward to
single out Israel – or other things Jewish
– for super-scrutiny. I refuse to gloat,
as so many in academia and the media
seem to, over Israel’s shortcomings.”

SOURCE: Chutzpah
by Alan M. Dershowitz (chapter 7, page 211)
published in year 1991 by Little Brown & Co
ISBN: 9780316181372 * ISBN: 0316181374

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Joachim Prinz said:

“The Jewish people are optimists,
addicted to a passionate belief that
they cannot possibly have enemies
bent on their destruction.”

SOURCE: The Secret Jews
(chapter 2, page 53) by Joachim Prinz, year 1973,
Random House Publishers, New York City,
ISBN-10: 0853031851 ISBN-13: 978-0853031857

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What Palestinians DON'T Want YOU to Know
by Hananya Naftali:


www.youtube.com/watch?v=iof1T7WZvLc