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Commentary;
Benjamin Netanyahu, the current leader of the Likud party, and candidate for Likud leadership in Tuesday’s primary, is attempting to employ bogus scare tactics against his main competition, perhaps only competition, Manhigut Yehudit’s Moshe Feiglin.
But check out how Moshe Feiglin responds to Netanyahu’s outrageously bogus and chutzpadik charges and strategy in these videos.
Remember, this is the same Bibi who garnered but 19 Knesset seats in losing big to Ehud Barak in the 1999 election which led to Barak’s in-the-dead-of-night withdrawal under fire from South Lebanon which laid the seeds for last summer’s capture of IDF soldiers and the Lebanon conflict with Hezbollah. This is the same Bibi who did still worse in garnering 12 Knesset seats while being pummelled in the March, 2006 elections by Ehud Olmert who tied the Lebanon conflict to convergence as northern Israel suffered bombardment of hundreds of Katyushas and thus suffered the devastating, strategic and discrediting loss of the Lebanon conflict and resultant infringements upon Jewish sovereignty and self-defense by 3rd party military forces.
This is the Bibi who handed over 80% of Hebron, the Bibi whose infamous handshake with Yassir Arafat at Wye is the very paradigm of appeasement. This is the Bibi who was manipulated and conned by Bill Clinton and came home from Wye empty-handed, without Jonathan Pollard. This is the Bibi who voted for expulsion of the Jews from Gush Katif and the 4 Shomron towns.
Can the B’nei Yisrael accept more of the same? MB
Netanyahu Says Olmert Wants Feiglin to Win, by Gil Hoffman (Jerusalem Post)
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Incumbent Likud chairman Binyamin Netanyahu attacked his competition in Tuesday’s Likud primary for the first time on Wednesday night, telling supporters in Kiryat Motzkin that the heads of Kadima and Labor want Moshe Feiglin to win the race.
Netanyahu had refrained until now from criticizing Feiglin and acknowledging third candidate Danny Danon. He has focused most of his public statements on criticizing his expected competition in the next general election, Labor chairman Ehud Barak and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
“If Olmert or Barak were asked who you should vote for, they would say ‘vote Feiglin or stay home,'” Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu’s campaign has become more worried recently that with an extremely low turnout, Zo Artzeinu co-founder Feiglin could end up winning more than 40 percent of the vote. A significant achievement for Feiglin could allow Barak and Kadima to portray the Likud as extremist.
But Feiglin’s associates said that if Netanyahu was so afraid of Feiglin staining the Likud, he should leave the attacks on him to other parties and not add to them. They said that if Feiglin was the Likud’s biggest burden, it would not make sense that Netanyahu brought the party only 12 mandates when Feiglin wasn’t on its list for the Knesset.
“There is no doubt that Netanyahu is under pressure and he makes mistakes when he gets hysterical,” Feiglin’s spokesman said. “Netanyahu should be embracing Feiglin instead of enhancing his demonic image. This attack will come back at Netanyahu like a boomerang when Feiglin gets a surprising percentage of the vote.”
An internal Likud court was expected to decide on Friday whether to block Feiglin from running in the race. The petition to the court, which was the fifth in two weeks, was filed by supporters of Netanyahu, but his campaign denied any connection to them.
Danon, who has been given no more than 3% in the polls, acknowledged on Thursday that he would not win the race.
“I did not run in order to beat Bibi but in order to raise important ideological issues,” Danon said.