This is a difficult post to write. Tuesday’s primary vote was accompanied by expectations that a faith-based candidate would finally win out and lead Likud, or that the vote count would reach to the mid-30s %. This author is digesting the results of the primary, with great digestive difficulty.
But, it seems apparent that the typical Likud member, emblematic of the typical Israeli, still lacks the equipment, the erudition to see beyond the brain-washing, the dumbing-down, political-orientation and is incapable of stepping outside of his current lifestyle, stepping outside of his insatiable lust for convenience and privilege to battle for change from rot, corruption and protexia. Major, radical surgery is required on Israel’s leftist bureaucratic institutions, educational systems and governance which is out of control, anti-Jewish, anti-Torah. Jews must once again care for each other and unify for the collective security and good of the nation.
The lop-sided victory by Netanyahu serves to reinforce among the masses that graft, self-enrichment, self-aggrandisement, manipulation, selective law enforcement and “justice” as well as power-lust at the expense of one’s fellow Jew are acceptable, as long as they’re done to the other guy.
Bibi is at least as big a scoundrel as Olmert, Barak, Peres, Peretz, Ramon or Mean Me’ir Sheetrit. Will it have to take a major catastrophe, Heaven Forbid, a major Arab onslaught to sufficiently expose the truth in a way that Israelis will no longer abide?
Or will Israelis be sooo beaten-down by the rotten system of governance and so self-doubting that, as Olmert asserts; they’ll be too tired to respond, to react. too tired to care, too tired to win? MB
Feiglin Encouraged by Results Despite Primary Defeat, by Gil Hoffman (Jerusalem Post)
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Despite losing the Likud primary to Binyamin Netanyahu by a hefty margin, Moshe Feiglin said that he was encouraged by the results.
Feiglin told Army Radio that “some quarter of Likud members say they want a leadership that believes in this people and this land. They understand that this country has no chance (at the moment).”
According to the final count, Netanyahu won 73.2 percent of the votes, while Feiglin got 23.4% and Danon 3.4%.
Despite Netanyahu’s fears of a record low turnout, some 40 percent of the Likud’s 95,000 members cast ballots at the approximately 300 polling stations across the country. The turnout was similar to the 42% who voted in the 2005 primary between Netanyahu and MK Silvan Shalom and greater than the 34% who cast their ballots in the 1999 race between future prime ministers Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert and MK Meir Sheetrit.
Feiglin said that the turnout reflected the will of the movement and the will of the entire population. “It cannot be claimed that 40 percent is not a general representation of Likud members. In my opinion, it also represents the population of Israel. The general public is fed up.”
Feiglin remained optimistic about his chances of winning the next party leadership race. “I hope that in the next primary I will succeed in winning the Likud leadership,” he said.