Ma'ariv: Netanyahu Worried About Feiglin's Growing Power in Likud

Opposition to the Bibi's proposal to nullify the Likud bylaw that requires new members to wait 16 months before being allowed to vote is growing daily. Every Likud member who does not have something very specific to gain from this tactic, which will effectively re-instate vote buying in the Likud, the manipulative and artificial inflation of the number of voters, is disgusted by Netanyahu's attempt artificially inflate the Likud electorate in his favor, also known as vote buying. Everyone still remembers the days of the Likud under Sharon. They know where tricks like these have led the Likud and (almost) nobody wants to go back there.

Netanyahu apparently realized that he cannot simply revert to vote-buying and that the media would not remain silent. So he came up with a brilliant spin:

Ma'ariv:"Binyamin Netanyahu worried about the growing strength of Feiglin and the settlers inside the framework of Likud"
Click here to read an English translation of the Ma'ariv article. Please note that the article was "suggested" to the paper by Netanyahu, himself.

Bibi will present his vote-buying as the best way to fight the Feiglinites: "Netanyahu prepares to battle a takeover in his party." That way, Bibi gets the kid-glove treatment from the press.

"If the Feiglinites succeed," the prominent source of the news item lectured the journalist, "they will gain enormous influence over Israeli society." In other words, because of those pesky Jews who took Manhigut Yehudit seriously and registered for the Likud, Netanyahu will not manage to establish a Palestinian state. That is why we have to fight against the Feiglin Phenomenon.

Does anybody still doubt the importance of registering for the Likud? Two possible scenarios will greet new members of the Likud: If Netanyahu gets his way and nullifies the 16 month waiting period, then the new member can immediately vote against Netanyahu's plans to establish a Palestinian state and expel Jews from their homes. In other words, the new member will be the counterpoint to the Arab clans and workers' unions who will be registered en masse - for a price.

The second possibility is that Netanyahu will see that the Feiglinites have registered thousands of new members and will understand what MK Yariv Levin explained in the Ma'ariv article: that nullifying the sixteen month waiting period will work against him. If that happens, the status quo will remain intact and the new member will have to wait 16 months to vote against Bibi. But even so, the influence of the new members who register through Manhigut Yehudit will be decisive. The Likud MKs are extremely interested in what happens in Manhigut Yehudit. They can sense the major political power that we have amassed. They all learned the lesson of the previous primaries: MKs who fought against the Land of Israel and voted in favor of the Expulsion were subsequently not endorsed by Manhigut Yehudit - and were pushed to the bottom of the Likud Knesset roster.

It may turn out that the next primaries for leadership of the Likud (not for the Knesset roster) will be in more than 16 months. In that case, the new members will also be able to vote for the first faith-based leader of the Likud.

Membership in the Likud is your ticket to the arena in which the real battle for the Land of Israel and the Nation of Israel is being waged. Don't miss the opportunity to be there! Register for the Likud now!

Now I'm a Believer

And Hashem your G-d will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will do good for you, and multiply you above your fathers. And Hashem your G-d will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspirng, to love Hashem your G-d with all your heart and with all your soul so that you may live.
And Hashem your G-d will put all these curses upon your enemies, and on them that hate you, that persecuted you.
And you shall return and hearken to the voice of Hashem, and do all His commandments which I command you this day.
(From this week's Torah portion, Netzavim, Deuteronomy 30:5-8)

G-d has already drawn up the story board. First, we are brought back to the land that we inherited from our forefathers. Within a short time we enjoy abundance. We have hi-tech, highways, skyscrapers and supermarkets filled with everything imaginable. True, we manage to create the largest gap between wealth and poverty in the developed world. We waste money on walls and fences instead of investing in education; we give our money to terrorists instead of investing in the poor; we give oil to the Egyptians and water to the Jordanians. Nevertheless, G-d's promise in these verses to shower us with good has been fulfilled over and above what we would have dared dream.

Following the abundance, G-d promises that we will draw near to Him. The verse says that G-d will circumcise our hearts. The barrier of estrangement will crumble and every day another cultural icon will discover his Father in Heaven. Suddenly, Judaism will be "in". This is also taking place before our very eyes.

Now we are looking forward to the speedy fulfillment of the next two stages: How Ahmadinijad, Obama, Haniya, Mubarak and the entire gallery of enemies of Israel in Europe and throughout the world will be recipients of the curses that they planned for Israel. At that point, complete return to G-d will be the order of the day: And you shall return and hearken to the voice of Hashem, and do all His commandments which I command you this day.

Shabbat Shalom,

Moshe Feiglin

Vote Buying Back in Likud?:

By Moshe Feiglin

Israel's media focused this week on two former government ministers who went to jail for corruption. These former ministers were convicted of stealing money, certainly a serious crime. But at the very same time, the media has been ignoring a far more serious crime-in-the-making.

Prime Minister Netanyahu is attempting to steal the Likud in two stages. First, he is gearing up to nullify the Likud requirement that new members must wait 16 months before being allowed to vote in internal party elections. Without having to wait 16 months, he can register tens of thousands of new members for the Likud - entire Arab villages and worker's unions - people who do not identify at all with the party's constitution - and then instruct them to vote for his henchmen in the upcoming Likud Central Committee elections. These new voters can tip the scales in Bibi's favor on any issue that he desires. In particular, he can count on them to tip the Likud scales in favor of surrendering Judea and Samaria to our enemies. This will allow Bibi to hand over the Land of Israel to our enemies in an entirely "democratic" manner. After all, he will have received the approval of the Likud's governing body.

Just a few years ago, the Likud was notorious for vote buying. But then, with hard background work by Manhigut Yehudit, the Likud passed a rule requiring new members to wait 16 months before being allowed to cast their votes in primaries. Why 16 months? So that the new member would have to pay his annual dues twice - from his own pocket.

Unlike Manhigut Yehudit, which registers new voters on a strictly ideological basis, Netanyahu's people are using other methods to convince new members to register for the Likud. Ariel Sharon and his son Omri had used vote buying to expand the Likud membership base from approximately 100,000 to approximately 300,000 in almost no time. Entire Arab clans from Jaffa suddenly became ardent Likudniks. The Arabs of Lod inexplicably became enamored with Jabotinsky's ideology. Government employees mysteriously discovered that they were Likud members - without their knowledge, or even worse, against their will.

The Arab clans and union heads didn't register their people out of sudden ideological fervor. They did it because it was worth their while. Very worth their while. The new members did not pay the membership dues from their pockets. The tax payer did.

The damage to Israel's democracy was immense. If this type of illegal manipulation could occur in Israel's ruling party, what was left of the democratic process? After the institution of the 16 month waiting period initiated by Manhigut Yehudit, the Likud once again represented the national camp. Sharon understood that he had lost his power base, defected from the Likud and established the Kadimah party.

The cleansing of the Likud became a feather in the Likud cap. Time and again Netanyahu and other Likud leaders pointed proudly to the fact that proper laws of governance had once again been instituted in their party. "We have no more vote buying," Netanyahu declared, and the rest of the ministers proclaimed the achievement throughout Israel. "True," they admitted, "we had some unpleasant phenomena, but we have learned our lesson, cleaned our stables and today we are the cleanest and most honest party in Israel."

But all the laws of good governance mean nothing when it comes time to carry out the Left's policies. Somehow, the will to rid Israel of its Land will always drive the Likud leadership to corruption. Netanyahu knows that if the Likud will truly represent the will of its constituency, it will not allow him to carry out his intended betrayal of the Land of Israel and its voters. So he has to buy votes and dilute the strong concentration of ideological voters in the party.

There is certainly an easy step that everybody can take to counter Bibi's vote-buying efforts, save our land from corrupt politicians and keep it in our hands. Now is the time to register for the Likud! More and more people are doing it. This is the best way to convince Bibi that by nullifying the 16 month waiting period he has everything to lose.

Do you really want to stop the bulldozers before they reach Ofra and Beit El? Register for the Likud, register you friends and family and continue to reach out to everyone who has not yet registered.

Be Happy

By Moshe Feiglin

And you shall rejoice in all the good that Hashem, your G-d has given you and your household, you and the Levi and the convert in your midst.
(From this week's Torah portion, Ki Tavo, Deuteronomy 26:11)

You got everything on a silver platter. You received a young state that triumphed over seven Arab armies and instilled fear in the hostile world around it. After that, you wondrously received Jerusalem and Biblical Israel. You received the Sinai and the oil fields in a victory that military experts defined as a "miracle of miracles." You received the Golan Heights and Mount Hermon. You received a burgeoning economy. Your enemies were destroyed. The terror organizations fled to Tunis in despair. Their leader was denied entry into the U.S. and many other western countries. You were internationally admired. All that you had to do was to rejoice in all the good that G-d had given you.

But you were not happy. All of these wonderful gifts forced you to face the truth of your national existence in the Land of Israel. The Temple Mount - where the rebuilt Temple should be standing - frightened you and you scurried out of there and desperately handed it over to your enemy, once again. You called Biblical Israel "territories" and since then you have done absolutely everything to get your enemy to take them back from you. You took the murderers who want to see all of you dead, who murdered your sons and daughters in cold blood, the terrorists that your Father in Heaven had given into your hands - and turned them into statesmen - so that you would have a recipient for the Biblical lands that you were trying so hard to be rid of. You turned your brothers who returned to Biblical Israel and made it flourish with their blood, sweat and tears into enemies of the nation. You expelled some and destroyed their homes, and still scheme to do the same to those who remain.

And now, the entire world (even America, your great ally) does not recognize your right to exist at all. And why should it, if you yourself are afraid of existing?

Instead of projecting the image of the victorious David triumphing over seven Arab armies, you have become the heavy Goliath, not even capable of liberating one captured soldier being held a few kilometers from your border. You have surrounded yourself with an entanglement of fences, walls and watchmen. The world scorns you. Israeli citizens abroad hide their true identity. There are neighborhoods in your capital, Jerusalem, where a Jew will not dare enter. The same is true for parts of Jaffa, Acco and Natzeret. You now buy the oil that you drilled in Sinai for top dollar. You have given the abundant water supply granted you by G-d - for free - to the Arabs living in Jordan, part of Israel's inheritance.

All that you had to do was to rejoice in what G-d had given you - and to rejoice in who you are. That is all.