Bibi:
I write this to you on the eve of a fateful internal vote of the Likud party. A vote that as Moshe Feiglin correctly predicted months ago, will determine the fate of both Jerusalem and Yesha. Bibi, you have been fighting this vote tooth and nail because you know that if the Likud Central Committee votes to finally have Central Committee elections, elections that you have postponed again and again against the Likud charter, the strength of the nationalist bloc, the true soul of the Likud headed by Manhigut Yehudit and Moshe Feiglin, will increase dramatically.
And yet, in a sense Bibi, you have already lost. Yes, it's over, Bibi. Regardless of the outcome tomorrow, you are in a lose-lose situation. If the referendum to retroactively modify the Likud charter (wonder if they ever tried that with the Magna Carta) and postpone the vote for two years is successful, then the Likud will no doubt be flooded with leftists and your cronies/thugs, former Likud/Kadima rejects etc. to dilute the nationalist/Manhigut bloc. In addition to tearing the Likud apart and in all probability resulting in the formation of a new nationalist Likud, your government coalition will fall resulting in new elections. If you lose the referendum Bibi, it is quite probable that your ego and attempt at political survival will demand that you will follow the Sharon trajectory and leave Likud to form "Likud Left" or "Likud Lite" or another Kadima clone, a party whose sole raison d'etre was to facilitate the forced evacuation of Gush Katif.
The parallels are ominous Bibi as your secret dealings with and groveling to the unholy trinity of Obama/Biden/Clinton have once again exposed you for the Likud poseur that you are, and for your desire to use a hijacked nationalist party/platform to surrender parts of Israel. As I have said before, you are a man without a molecule of Likud DNA in your body. Your desire to rule from the center-left and appease the US in carving up Israel was evident right after the Likud primaries last year when in collusion with a corrupt Supreme Court, Feiglin was summarily and illegally demoted off the Likud ticket allowing Avigdor Leiberman, Katzeleh, Michael Ben-Ari, Aryeh Eldad and others to get a whiff of political relevancy, but not enough to stop you from their parochial, sectoral, and impotent positions outside the Likud.
The bottom line? Feiglin is right again. Right about how the battle for the soul of the nation is inside the Likud and that the other rightist parties are irrelevant. Right that you Bibi, had seeds of greatness in you but without faith, you cannot be the leader that Israel needs. Right that the religious nationalists fall for the same trap again and again looking for the secular messiah to lead them, while they themselves are too afraid to lead because of what the "goyim" might think. It is sad/pathetic that rather than helping determine the fate of the vote tomorrow, Ben-Ari, Katzeleh, Eldad, and their ill-advised followers, good people all, will sit utterly powerless to act on behalf the nation they love.
So, as I hate long goodbyes, I will say goodbye to you now Bibi because no matter what happens tomorrow, you have lost. If you lose the referendum you lose faster and if you win, you lose a bit slower but ultimately you lose. You will be consigned to the dustbin of political history just as Sharon has been and follow his arc of disgrace in trying to both steal a critical election with thuggery, trickery, and Chicago-style politics (ala guess who??) and then hand parts of Israel to thieves and murderers. It is sad to see what you have become because you could have been so much more. You actually had some people believing that you had changed and would be a real leader the second time around. You were a great finance minister and ambassador but you are not and never will be, a leader. It is clear you will never rise to the level of your formerly great potential. I wish you and your followers a healthy but speedy exit from the Israeli political scene. To paraphrase Marlon Brando, you could've been a contender, a somebody. Sadly, you chose the path of the pretender.
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