Straw Candidate

Chairman of the World Likud, Danny Danon, has also entered the Likud primaries race. After MK Silvan Shalom quit the race last week, MKs who support Netanyahu told The Jerusalem Post they hoped "a straw candidate" would enter the race, so he would not have to face Feiglin one-on-one.

It seems that Netanyahu prefers to hide behind the back of a straw candidate rather than to take on Moshe Feiglin in a serious and honorable manner.

Danon is considered a hard liner on national issues. He claims that his candidacy will allow Likudniks displeased with Bibi to vote for someone other than Feiglin, who, in his opinion, is too radical and places too much emphasis on G-d and Judaism.

We actually agree with Danon. While he is nothing more than a slightly more nationalistic version of Bibi, there is a genuine difference between him

and Moshe Feiglin.

Danon and Netanyahu stand for the same thing -- nationalism/pragmatism without G-d. Moshe Feiglin stands for bringing G-d back into the Israeli equation. We have already seen all of Israel's nationalist/pragmatic leaders collapse under pressure. Danon, clearly less talented than Netanyahu, is not a better prospect than any of the others.

Moshe Feiglin is the ONLY candidate offering Israel true, Jewish leadership that will successfully deal with Israel's problems specifically because G-d is in the picture. And actually, taking G-d into account is the most pragmatic thing

for Jews to do!

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