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Quite a few people have told me over this campaign that they can’t perceive of Moshe Feiglin and Manhigut Yehudit winning this or any Likud primary.
There are comments like; He’s too unknown, He has no legislative background or experience, Manhigut Yehudit is too small a movement, he could never win national election — that Likud would end up with less seats in Knesset than now, even single-digit numbers.
But, guess what people; victory seems waiting for us on Primary Day. It’s like “the Tugger“ used to say; “Ya Gotta Believe!”
Very much in my mind over the past two weeks has been the date 2 May, 2004.
One may recall that date as infamous; when Tali Hatuel and her 4 daughters were brutally murdered in their car as they traveled near the Kissufim Crossing at the entrance to the Gush Katif.
But there is more to this horrendous tragedy than the terrible event itself. The Hatuels, like many other people from Gush Katif who were setting out for locations all over Israel, were campaigning against the expulsion of Jews. For 2 May, 2004 was the day of the Likud Referendum on Sharon’s planned expulsion of Jews from Gush Katif and from the 4 Shomron towns.
A bit of history; On or about 30 March, 2004 Sharon presented the proposal Likud party members’ Referendum vote on the planned expulsion to a Likud Convention. The convention approved the proposal for the vote.
Sharon was soo confident of victory that he stated the following;
The opponents of the expulsion campaigned aggressively, both by phone and via face-to-face, home-to-home campaigning between the end of March and Referendum day.
When the vote was held on 4 May, opponents emerged victorious garnering some 59.5% of the some 96,000 Likud party members who voted, 39.7 percent of all eligible Likud party members.
Herein lies a basic reason for tremendous optimism about a Feiglin, Manhigut Yehudit victory in the coming Likud primary for party leadership.
Now, as then, lovers of Eretz Yisrael and their fellow Jews have quickly mobilized to get out the core Manhigut Yehudit membership vote and have utilized the same strategies used to win the Referendum vote a little over 3 years ago.
Despite repeated attempts to de-legitimize Moshe Feiglin, recent polls have shown Moshe’s strength at between 25% – 30% with 11 days before Primary day. This may sound daunting, but one should click on the post below as well as to read this email received today from Manhigut Yehudit co-chairman Shmuel Sackett;
Feiglin Leads on Likud Web Site Poll
From: Shmuel Sackett [mailto: Shmuel@manhigut.org]
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 5:47 AM
To: friends@jewishisrael.org
Subject: Let me explain the pollsToday’s poll taken by Reshet Bet Radio (Israel’s #1 radio station) shows Bibi at 70%, Feiglin at 29% and Dannon at 1%.
Let me tell you why we are jumping for joy:
1) 2 weeks ago the polls showed Moshe at 13% and now at 29%. If this trend continues Feiglin WINS!!!
2) The Israeli polls do NOT show the “undecided”. This is why they are always wrong. The 70-29-1 breakdown is only from people who KNOW WHO THEY ARE VOTING FOR!!! The poll does not tell you that 48% are still UNDECIDED!!!
3) Voter turnout is supposed to be low. This will hurt Bibi as his people will stay home in greater numbers than Feiglin people.
4) We are saving most of our money for the last 7 days of the campaign which is coming soon. During these past 2 weeks we have been only “semi” aggressive. The last week will see us coming out running on all cylinders. Yet, even though we just started – Feiglin jumped from 13% to 29%.
Dearest friends – we can WIN!!!
-Shmuel
Let’s return to the last reason given by the doubters, by those who oppose Moshe Feiglin’s candidacy. They believe that “he doesn’t have a chance against Ehud Barak.”
But let’s look back in time; a year and a half ago and 8 years ago.
A year and a half ago, Bibi’s loss to Ehud Olmert was soo devastating that Likud was left with but 12 Knesset seats. And in 1999, when Bibi was decimated in the popular vote by Barak, the Likud garnered but 19 Knesset seats.
Further, Bibi’s politics are not far off from Barak’s once one sheds all of the bogus smoke and mirrors.
Moshe Feiglin stands for a return to Jewish national principles and values, not the political band-aids, expediencies, leftist agendas and elitism of his opponents. And for those who say that Moshe has no political experience. this fact is a big plus; Moshe is untarnished, unblemished and squeeky clean — Nobody Owns Him.
Catch the feeling and the spirit expressed in Moshe Feiglin’s campaign jingle.
For context on this post, click here. MB