28 Nissan, 5770
April 12, 2010
Dear Likud Central Committee Members,
Once again, the High Court has mobilized for Netanyahu. It has accepted his appeal against the Likud constitution and the Central Committee decision to hold elections for a new Central Committee on April 28th.
As per the High Court decision, Netanyahu must hold a Central Committee vote on the change that he proposes for the Likud constitution by the end of May. His proposal states that elections for the Likud Central Committee are to be held three years after Knesset or municipal elections. (In the last 25 years, three years did not go by between elections for the Knesset or for the municipalities.)
If this proposal is adopted, it means that there will no longer be elections for the Likud Central Committee or for the Likud institutions. All of us will become members of the Central Committee of a party without a voting public that will soon be swallowed up by a new "Kadimah" - and rapidly disappear off the political map.
Have you asked yourselves why Netanyahu is proposing this change to the constitution? Have you wondered why the High Court has gone to such great lengths to help him?
As reported in Ha'aretz and Makor Rishon on Jan. 29th, highly reliable American sources assert that Netanyahu has already committed himself to a return to the pre-1967 borders - including East Jerusalem - with minor adjustments and territory exchange. Netanyahu is supposed to pass his decision into law by the end of the settlement freeze - this September. The last thing that Netanyahu and his allies in the High Court need is internal elections that will invigorate the Likud.
Netanyahu will gladly promise to hold internal Likud elections toward the end of the settlement freeze. But by then, it will be too late and there will be nothing to save. Not Jerusalem and not the Likud.
By asking for your support for his proposal, Netanyahu is actually asking you to vote in favor of the elimination of the Likud and the partition of Jerusalem!
Pay no attention to Netanyahu's declarations of loyalty to Jerusalem. They are directed only at local ears. Instead, pay close attention to his deeds. Even now, before you have voted, all building in East Jerusalem is totally frozen. The process that we are experiencing now is exactly the same process that brought us the Disengagement and that almost destroyed the Likud.
Sharon said - Netzarim and Tel Aviv will share the same fate.
Netanyahu says - Jerusalem and Tel Aviv will share the same fate.
Netanyahu's intentions are the same as Sharon's and he is using the same methods!
First, he gets elected by the votes of the Right. Next, he brings the Labor party into his coalition, veers sharply left and declares that he will establish a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. In exchange, he is handled with utmost delicacy by the High Court, with whose help he can squeeze consent for his dubious conduct of Israel's foreign affairs from the Likud - with pointed insinuations that if the Likud does not toe his line, he will abandon the party. Ultimately, when the Likud will become a lifeless political structure, Netanyahu will bring Kadimah into his coalition and the Likud will be destroyed. That is exactly what Sharon did during the Disengagement and Netanyahu is following his disastrous pattern.
If you want to save Jerusalem and the Likud, I call upon you to vote against Netanyahu's proposal!
Call your friends from the Central Committee and convince them as well. Don't give up! Too much of our precious homeland has been surrendered to the enemy by the Likud. We will not allow Netanyahu to do it again - this time in Jerusalem!
He will threaten you, he will call you extremists, he will declare his loyalty, he will have a major terrorist eliminated - he will do everything to get you to vote for his proposal.
But you will watch over Jerusalem and Jerusalem will watch over you!
"May G-d bless you from Zion and you will see the goodness of Jerusalem all the days of your life." (Psalms 128)
Moshe Feiglin
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