The last question asked at the end of Moshe Feiglin's last US lecture was different than all the other questions. The questioner was obviously well versed in Israeli politics:
"They say that you convince people to register for the Likud," he said to Moshe, "but that when voting day comes, your people do not vote Likud. How can you explain that?"
Moshe Feiglin's answer comes in two parts; to Israelis and to Americans.
Answer to Israelis:
We encourage all of our people to vote for the Likud. Interestingly, our loudest detractors are the very same people who registered entire communities that have nothing at all in common with the National Camp (usually Arabs). In addition, they illegally paid the registration fees for the new members and sometimes even paid them to come to vote. In other words, there is no reason to relate to the crocodile tears of those people who, with their tricks, have artificially coerced the ruling party of the National Camp into implementing the policies of the most radical Left. How can they complain about Manhigut Yehudit, which has registered the very core of the National Camp and continuously encourages the Likud to return to its traditional, nationalist ideology?
The ethical finger pointed against those who registered for the Likud but did not vote Likud leaves a lot lacking. Every business deal has two sides. When the Likud voters saw that the Likud encourages policies opposed to its written constitution, when they saw how every effort was made in the Likud to prevent Moshe Feiglin from attaining his rightful place on the Knesset list they felt that the Likud had turned its back on them and did not see any reason to continue to vote for the party.
We think that those people who did not vote Likud made a mistake. There is no democracy in Israel. That's why there are no politics in Israel. When you vote Left you get Left. And when you vote Right you get double Left. So how one votes is insignificant. The only factor with true potential to change this dictatorial situation is Moshe Feiglin's movement to create authentic Jewish leadership for Israel. In effect, Manhigut Yehudit is working to return the State of Israel to the large Jewish majority finally lending true meaning to Israel's "democracy." Since the Likud is the tool that brings about this vital process, we must vote for it and do all that we can to strengthen it regardless of the policies that it implements policies over which the "democracy" in Israel has no control.
It makes no difference how much we are attacked by various factors from within the Likud. We owe the Likud a lot. Without it, the faith based alternative would not have gotten past a few newspaper articles with no tools with which to turn them into reality. Today, after we have received one quarter of the votes of the ruling party of the National Camp, we are in a totally different place thanks to the Likud.
Answer to Americans:
The above answers do not really get to the root of the matter. Is it wrong to be a registered member of one party and to vote for another?
This question seems a bit strange. After all, one of the principles of democracy is to vote one's conscience - discreetly. There is a reason why voting takes place behind a curtain and inside sealed envelopes. The very question, "Who did you vote for?" is actually illegitimate. It would have been easy to restrict registered members of political parties from voting, and to automatically add their votes to their respective party's tally or to open separate polling places for them, where their votes are open for all to see. Clearly, though, these ideas are not democratic. So why the complaints against Manhigut Yehudit's registered members?
"What are you? A Democrat or a Republican?" Moshe answered the questioner.
"A Republican," he answered.
"And will you be voting for McCain?"
"Of course."
The audience seemed to identify with his answers.
"Now please tell me," Moshe continued to question him, "What would you do if McCain would be running on a Democratic ticket and Obama on a Republican ticket? Who would you vote for?"
"For McCain," he answered without missing a beat.
"How about the rest of you?" Moshe turned to the audience, which nodded in approval.
"Is that ethical? Is it democratic to put the interests of the nation above the interests of the party?
The audience seemed to think that the question was superfluous.
"So if that principle is so clear, why do you think that in Israel loyalty to the party takes precedence over loyalty to the nation?" Moshe brought the point home to the sounds of loud applause.
The truth is the very fact that this issue is a question in Israel is due to its 100 year old socialist mentality a mentality that blurs the borders between party and state.
Can this simple yet fundamental explanation be understood in Israel? Can it be explained in Israel that the Republican president Ronald Reagan, for example, was elected with the votes of the democrats, which is absolutely fine in America's true democracy? Can we explain in Israel that in some states in the US, members of all the parties can participate in the primaries? Can we answer the Israeli media with the same, simple answer that Moshe gave the American questioner?
Unfortunately, the answer to that question is "no." The State of Israel is still chained to its slave mentality. The principles of liberty and democracy are way off its screen. Unfortunately, the truth that convinced the American audience is still irrelevant in Israel.
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