This is what Netanyahu is doing to Moshe Feiglin and his Jewish Leadership faction within Likud, though he is using the thinly veiled disguise of claiming to be "removing corruption" from the Party list instead coming right out and saying he's banning religious conservatives. The technicality Bibi seeks to expel Feiglin from the Likud Party for is that he was arrested and convicted for holding a sit-in to protest of Israeli Land concessions to the Palestinians back in 1997.
Said Bibi today while officially announcing his vice-PM running mate, concessionist puke Silvan Shalom:
"First, we must close ranks – there are no camps, and no factions. We are one camp, and in order to express this unity, I ask you to answer my call to choose our friend Silvan Shalom for second place in the Likud's Knesset list," Bibi told those in attendance.
"The second thing is cleaning up our movement. In recent years - and only in recent years - the Likud's name has been tainted. Criminal elements have entered our movement. Their number may be marginal, miniscule even – but the damage they have caused is great. This minority has stained the name of our movement, the name of our loyal activists, and the tens of thousands of members, who are honest people," Netanyahu said.
"As we set out on our new path, we must show these criminal elements the way out. Their place is not among us. They can go elsewhere, to another party," the Likud chairman declared.
"Therefore, in six days I will present a motion, according to which every person who has been convicted of a criminal offense that carries disgrace with it will not be allowed to run for a place in the party. Not as a Committee member, and not as a Knesset member. We are cleaning out our ranks, not just from people who have erred, but from rejected norms. And I know that I speak in your names, because we want a clean movement."
Of course, this might have something to do with the fact that Feiglin ran against him and sported a stunningly high 13 percent of the total vote within Likud, thus making him a real and viable threat to Netanyahu's desire to implement future concessions to the moslems. Still, it is remarkable that Bibi feels it is in the party's best interests to eliminate all nationalists who oppose giving Land for Peace concessions from the Likud party.
Feiglin would likely join up with the National Union headed by Benny Elon should Netanyahu succeed in expelling him and the other Jews who oppose concession.
Oh, and the idea that Bibi only wants "honest" people of "integrity" to be in Likud is quite a humorous idea coming from Bill Clinton Netanyahu, who was run out on a rail from office in 1999 for corruption and sex scandal. Oh, and also the fact that he ran as a nationalist candidate back then and then gave away Hebron to the moslems and advanced Oslo against his campaign promises really makes him a straight shooter, eh? What a laugh! Even his supporters don't trust him.
I actually hope Feiglin does leave Likud because he'll get lost in the shuffle there even if they can't kick him out, while with the National Union he could do some real good for boosting the Nationalist camp's representation in the next knesset by maximizing the rightwing vote under one party banner.
-MZ
9 comments:
Kyle, the "benchmark for "Religious" is intolerance. The more religious or "observant" a person is the more hateful of others who are different they become. This is why the Palestinians are so angry right now: the religious freaks in the settler movement and the government inflamed them into having no choice but react with violence.
Dana, are you even remotely aware of the double standard which you hold Jews to? In one breath you are blasting religious Jews for being evil and intolerent, while in the other breath you're defending the radically fervent moslems who kill Jews for sport.
Do you not see this, or don't you care about this hypocricy because of your hatred of Jews and Israel?
Kyle, in the eyes of the militant secularists they usually identify anything traditionally religious as problematic. Wearing a yarmulke, keeping kosher, and being Shabbos observant in any way is usually enough to make a secularist scream "ZEALOT!"
-MZ
methinks danahatesdana doesn't know what she speaks of. i, for one, never truly knew love or tolerance or patience or kindness or any goodness until i started a relationship with G-d.
religion is the work of man. faith comes from G-d, so i suppose we are not religious, but faithful.
madze, why do you keep letting this cretan in here - she is getting very close to ruining my day - NOT!!! don't know too many who could - one ha!
Dana what about the "religious freaks" that intentionally slaughter civilians in the name of Allah?
Might that have anything to do with the conflict?
How about the atheists that massacre the faithful in every communist shithole to ever fester upon the earth?
Is that "tolerance"?
No, the simple answer is that you are a spineless quisling and/or willing serf like every other lefty.
You attack those that pose no threat to you while defending genocidal barbarians that would like to gang rape or behead you.
Of course, I could be wrong here.
You might just be another piss-bathing piece of Islamofascist filth.
Either way, you are an obvious (and oblivious) bigot.
Your benchmark for tolerance is cowardice and stupidity.
Glad I aint you.
kuhnkat - i'm too old to join most things, except the "red hat" ladies and they all look like my mother - which is what i have strived against for the last twenty years! do you think the seals would have me? i am not nearly as soft as their superiors - ha! or were you just being your regular multi-faceted self?
rwm - nanc is glad you are not her either!
kuhnkat - what the hell do you mean by that? i have no whiskers and if i did would go pay $200 per square inch to have them removed permanently - people of native american descent are not fuzzy people, nor are we very warm!
nor the mustache, apparently. my crazy former marine neighbor says special forces would be scared of me!
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