The Battle Goes On

By Rob Muchnick

Yesterday, there was an election to determine the fate of the Likud Central Committtee. The results of the election were not what we had hoped for. But, to paraphrase the famous American naval captain John Paul Jones, “We have not yet begun to fight!”

Imagine if Barack Obama went in front of the United States’ Congress and said, “You guys are gonna vote on whether or not you get to stay in office without having to face a new election every two years. If you vote for my proposal, you’ll never have to have another of those pesky little re-election campaigns.” How many of us think that all of the Congressmen would vote for this proposal? Well, this is EXACTLY what Bibi “the former defender of democracy” Netanyahu did today. The Likud Central Committee was mandated by Likud by-laws to have had elections to re-elect the entire body well before today. Anyone who wanted to run for the body could have run, and every incumbent would have had to stand for re-election. But the Israeli “Supreme” Court - officially the “High Court of Justice”, but as there is no justice there, I cannot call it by its name - told Bibi that he can change the Likud by-laws RETROACTIVELY to repeal the mandated elections. The High Court of “Injustice” told Bibi that if he can change the Likud’s charter with a 2/3 vote, then it can be as if he made this change two years ago. Is this justice? Is this democracy? Is this ‘of the people, by the people, and for the people’? Excuse me, I digress, as I live in a country which actually has a Constitution with a Bill of Rights, and politicians have a harder time destroying liberties here than they do in Israel, which actually has no constitution and the leftist Supreme Court ‘justices’ actually select their own members.

Bibi put his full-court press on the Central Committee members and they came out for their master who promised them their eternal positions, and alas, Bibi won the day. And I do mean ‘eternal positions’, because even though Bibi said that his proposal would ‘only’ delay the election to this body -which put up the strongest battle against Sharon’s Expulsion from Gush Katif - by 20 months, he actually attached detailed provisions to when future elections would be held. The last time his criteria would have been met was way back in 1973, so for all intents and purposes, there will be no more Central Committee elections.

The point of Bibi’s fight today was to keep the Central Committee from shifting further rightward, as all polls showed that it would have done so after the new elections. To Bibi, this shift would be unacceptable because it would have made his planned destruction of Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem that much harder to implement. And even though every sane person (who looks at the picture through logic as opposed to with or without a biblical view) can see that the Oslo “Peace” Process has failed, and we can all see that Mahmoud Abbas is nothing more than the reincarnation of the Jew-murderer Arafat except that he wears a suit and uses a razor, Bibi perseveres on the path of pretending Abbas is a man of peace so that he can rip out the biblical heartland of Israel and set up the destruction of the Jewish state. There are those who insist that Bibi has the best interests of the state of Israel at heart, but it is getting much harder for those people to make their argument. It is clear that he is leading Israel on the path to her doom. His own Foreign Minister announced today that direct “peace talks” will restart with the people that call themselves “palestinians” in two weeks. So much for all of those Bibi supporters who told me that they loved everything Feiglin stands for but they had to support Bibi two years ago because they were sure that Bibi had “learned from his mistakes of the past”.

Netanyahu also pledges constantly to “defend Jerusalem”, as if a heart can be separated from the other internal organs of a body. However, multiple Israeli newspapers have documented this week that Bibi has made a secret agreement with Obama to halt all Jewish construction in Jerusalem, as this will make the future handover of our sacred capital city that much easier for “the Betrayer”.

But today is just one day, and this has been just one battle. We shall overcome this. We will be smart and we will be relentless. And we shall win in the end. There is no other choice