by Moshe Feiglin, Israelnationalnews.com
It is wrong to throw rocks at IDF soldiers. We must do all that we can
to uproot this phenomenon. But the mad witch hunt that has raged this
week has nothing to do with concern for and loyalty to the IDF.
Every Friday for years, leftist demonstrators would gather near the
Arab village of Bil’ain. They would routinely throw rocks at the
soldiers there.
One Border Policeman lost his eye as a result. Other soldiers were
seriously injured.
But it did not interest the media. Nobody stuck a microphone into the
face of Amos Oz or any other leftist High Priest to ask how those
weeds had grown up in their garden. The wife of the Border Policeman
who lost his eye didn’t get any air time, the general did not
pontificate about hatred the likes of which he had never seen, the
Chief of Staff did not give interviews, Fuad did not call upon the IDF
to shoot Jewish protesters, nobody declared that the anarchists are a
terror organization and the Prime Minister did not convene an
emergency Knesset committee meeting. None of that at all.
Why not? Because the protesters in Bil’ain come from the same social
and ideological milieu as the media. Why create a scandal against
themselves? Why make people feel disgust for your own ideology?
In other words, the mad witch hunt raging now in Israel has nothing to
do with honesty. The hands holding the microphones are truly not
clean, and those who have rushed to condemn the rock throwing at IDF
soldiers played into the media’s hands and fanned the flames. We are
experiencing untamed political incitement under the guise of
patriotism.
I am willing to bet that the settlers have a much higher percentage of
sons in the army than Israel’s broadcasters and they surely are as
concerned for their welfare as are the talking heads.
It would be easy to stop the “price tag operations” if we would really
want to face the truth: The youth of Judea, Samaria and Gaza have
grown up into a reality in which the state and the army persecute them
and destroy their homes. In other words, the state and the army have
effectively turned themselves into the enemy. These youths have grown
up into a reality in which they have no human rights; a reality in
which Peace Now, the State’s Attorney and the High Court urge the IDF
and the police to attack them; a reality in which the media insult and
abuse them and the rabbis condemn them; a reality that pushes them far
into a corner where they can try to defend themselves.
This is the reality of our 14 year olds. What is Israeli society so
surprised about?
We must keep in mind that the rock attack on the soldiers took place
on the backdrop of the bulldozers on their way to destroy Ramat Gilad,
a neighborhood built on private Jewish property, authorized by former
PM Sharon as part of a master plan to build 185 housing units there.
The agricultural lands in the neighborhood have been worked for 29
years.
No Arab has ever challenged Jewish ownership of the lands. According
to the Ottoman law, which still applies today in Judea and Samaria,
everything about the neighborhood is strictly kosher. Nevertheless,
new bylaws have been put into place, relevant only to Jews to make the
neighborhood “illegal”. Barak wasted no time and sent in the
bulldozers.
It is a crime to throw rocks at soldiers. But it is even worse to
destroy Jewish homes in the Land of Israel, to drive families out of
their homes and to decimate synagogues.
A small time criminal works against the law. But a big-time criminal
works within the law. Usually, he wears a uniform.
The government can quickly enact the legislation necessary to legalize
the outposts and to restore the political commissars of the “justice
system” to their natural size. If no major crimes will be perpetrated
in the name of the law, there won’t be any small crimes either, and
peace and truth will reign once more.
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Gov’t Secretary: No More Coddling Leftists at Bilin
Recent violent incidents ascribed to right-wingers may have rattled the government enough to cause it to reappraise its attitude toward leftist and Arab violence, too.
Government Secretary Tzvi Hauser told Channel 2 that “whoever burns a mosque and damages a site that is holy to others disgraces this nation and causes it to be slandered,” Hauser said. “These things… an end must be put to them. The Prime Minister was shocked when he heard the story of the mosque.”
He said that the government intends to take a series of measures to deal with the violence. “There is meaningful budgetary assistance and there are technological means. All the necessary approvals will be granted and there is attention from the leadership. Once the Prime Minister says this is the time to clamp down on it – I believe things will move, as in other cases where the Prime Minister put his fist down.”
Hauser added that a change could also be expected in the way security forces deal with leftist and Arab violence at regular hotspots Bilin and Naalin.
“This is also an opportunity to put an end to the coddling approach at Bilin and Naalin. In the course of the last three years, nearly 100 soldiers were wounded. There are repeated disturbances there and the media needs to search its soul regarding its attitude toward that. The State of Israel needs to approach these fringe groups, mark a red line and tell them ‘this is as far as you go.’ There are anarchists on both right and left.”
Hauser said that the government’s policy on outposts was that “there is enough land in Judea and Samaria to enable Jewish settlement – not one square meter of private land needs to be taken.”
“It is important to say at this moment, too,” he added, “that there are manipulative interested parties out there that try to besmirch an entire population of settlers. Just as we will fight with an iron hand the anarchists who libel this land, we must insist that in this discourse, events will not be used in order to hurt the population that is the most severely challenged in Israel.”
The trick to an impressive menorah lighting is how you light the wickeds.
From all I can see, Feiglin should give up on his campaign of reforming Likud, and leave the garbage to stink by themselves. He would probably be more effective in trying to broaden the appeal of a right wing party; bit I think they’re too full of big egos for him to be able to do that. As it stands, he gives Likud too much credibility.
Let the second Jewish war of the Maccabees begin. Much too boring here, we need some action.
Mai Chanukah?
I cannot find this relatively fresh article, supposedly by Prof. Paul Eidelberg, anywhere on the Internet. Posted as is in my inbox:
AN UNSEEN POLYTHEISM AND “SOFT” DESPOTISM IN ISRAEL
Part I
To understand how a form of polytheism reigns in Israel, it will be helpful to discuss the absence of accountability in this country and its resulting “soft despotism.”
Accountability is a basic Jewish concept, awesome during Yom Kippur, when Torah Jews appear before the Supreme Judge of the world, the G-d of Truth and Justice, and meditate on their shortcomings.
Governments do not mediate on their shortcomings. Their leaders do no wrong: they only make mistakes, and then only for some righteous cause, like “peace.”
Of course, what must be done to obtain peace involves the question of truth, which men always seem to seek in vain. Has anyone seen truth lurking in Jerusalem, the City of Truth? Besides, who would call the Government ensconsed in Jerusalem an exemplar of Truth?
The leaders of this Government boast they are champions of democracy. One should then expect its leaders to be accountable to the people. But as we all know, they are accountable to the people only on election day. Thereafter they ignore the will or convictions of the people with impunity.
For example, in Israel’s January 2003 elections, the parties that opposed Labor’s policy of “unilateral disengagement” from Gaza won at least 70% of the votes cast in that election, which translated into 70% or 84 seats in Israel’s 120-member Knesset. Yet that same Knesset, led by Likud chairman Ariel Sharon, adopted Labor’s policy of withdrawal from Gaza by a vote of 67 to 45!
Sharon thus behaved as a charlatan; but in so doing he announced, in effect, that he was accountable to no one! That smacks of Allah or of the unlimited and irrational will of Islam’s God or theology! Israel has another kind of deity.
To whom is Israel’s Supreme Court accountable? No one. Former Supreme Court President Aharon Barak decreed that “everything is justiciable.” This is what is implied in Islam’s chant Allah Akbar—Allah is greater than any god and is not bound by any laws.
This conforms to what former Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin said of Judge Barak and his Supreme Court: they are above the law! This is perfectly consistent with Barak’s dictum that “everything is justiciable”! Hence the Court can make its own laws in blatant disregard of the legal heritage and ethics of the Jewish people. This is what is implied by those who intelligently call the court a “courtocracy.” Hence, one cannot avoid the conclusion that Judge Barak is being disingenuous when he says that democracy and Judaism are compatible, for under his imperialistic dictum, both democracy and Judaism are justiciable!
And so, in Israel, there is no accountability in this reputed democracy. And given Barak’s imperialistic dictum, there is no rule of law in this county. Indeed, Mr. Rivlin is quoted as saying that what governs Israel is a “gang of the rule of law of law”—meaning (at that time, 2005, a clique of leftwing secularists headed by Supreme Court president Aharon Barak who virtually gave Ariel Sharon—a Mapainik or closet leftist—the authority to expel of 10,000 Jews from their homes in Gush Katif and Norhern Samaria.
Prat II
Day after day I witnessed and raged in virtual silence in one futile article after anther exposing this betrayal of Israel and the tragic suffering of my Jewish brothers and sisters. What we were witnessing is a parade of politicians who place themselves above God and the Torah.
Hence, we need to hearken to the Talmudic sages of Israel who teach us that the Torah is a covenant to which G-d is a party, that God subordinates Himself to the law of which He is the creator. We must loudly reject the Latin maxim that “The Ruler is not bound by the law” and its a relic in modern Israel: “No act of legislation shall diminish the rights of the State, or impose upon it any obligation, unless explicitly stated” (Interpretation of Ordinance, section 42). We must give voice to the Jerusalem Talmud:
A human king issues a decree. He may choose to obey it; he may choose to have only others obey it. Not so the Holy One, praised be He. When He issues a decree, He is the first to obey it, as it is stated: ‘And they shall observe my observances, I am the L-rd,’ I am He Who was the first to observe the commandments of the Torah (Rosh Hashana 1:3a).
That G-d observes His own laws—this, dear friends, stands in striking contrast to the Deity worshipped by Muslims. As noted, Allah is not bound or limited by any law, not even by Reason or Justice. Listen carefully: That the God of the Jews is bound by His own laws is the ultimate source of what we call the “rule of law,” which is misleadingly associated with democracy. I say “misleading” because there are two basic types of democracy: Normative Democracy and Normless Democracy. Only Normative Democracy is compatible with the Torah and the rule of law. Consider.
Normative Democracy posits a “Higher Law” to which parliaments and kings are subordinate. In this kind of democracy all men can be held accountable for their behavior because here freedom and equality have ethical and rational constraints. Normative Democracy recognizes distinctions between good and evil, right and wrong, just and unjust. This kind of democracy does not prevail in Israel, where freedom leads to permissiveness and equality levels all moral distinctions.
What dominates the mentality of Israel’s ruling elites is Normless Democracy. In Israel, uncritical freedom and indiscriminate equality reign supreme. Here Kadima as well as Labor and Likud governments have released and armed Arab terrorists and murderers, and with hardly a protest from the religious parties. Here homosexuals and prostitutes are brought to and honored in the Knesset. Here all lifestyles are morally equal. This is why disloyal and loyal citizens enjoy equal rights in Israel. This is why Israeli prime ministers have consorted with, and treated as their equals, Arab thugs like Yasser Arafat and Abu Mazen—and have not held them accountable for the crimes they have committed against the Jewish people.
Lacking here is truth and a sense of honor and justice—as well as moral courage. Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick highlighted this in an article entitled “A coward for a prime minister.” Her intrepid article was published on June 21, 2005. She was referring to Ariel Sharon.
Sharon was not held accountable and condemned in any earthly court for his betrayal of the Jewish people when, in August 2005 (before his stroke), he expelled 10,000 Jews from their homes in Gaza and northern Samaria—a crime that has no name in Israel because of Barak’s dictum that “everything is justiciable”— conveniently forgotten when the Government released Arab terrorists and yielded land to these Jew-killers.
This is the Normless Democracy of which Israel boasts, where there is no accountability restraining the rulers. To live through this enfolding process of official mendacity and treachery in utter powerlessness, but to persist in the struggle for truth and justice is no easy task for heroic and Torah-educated youth of Israel. Indeed, they can expect to be demonized by their left-wing government and its lackeys in the media.
But these youth will err grievously if they do not offer a positive program, a program to redeem Israel from precisely which parliamentary laws make Israel what Alexis de Tocqueville called a “democratically elected despotism.”
Nobody buys you kind of crap here.
Yevsektziah. Say that, three times fast!
…, Warsaw, Auschwitz, Birkenau…
Keep them dogies rollin’! Moo! Moo!
Gosh, it’s good to hear you guys! You’re in the real world, there, right in the cattle pens! Some others here want the U. S. Cavalry to come and save the day. The trouble is, that the cavalry is there, and it has orders to put the settlers on reservations and give the towns to the Indians.
Panetta has been backpedalling, since his chat with Barak.
“I get your point… Do it late at night.”
Now he says that Iran GETTING nukes is a definite red line! (well, one that turns yellow and then green — not to mention the fact that by the time Iran declares nukes, it will be too late to do anything about it). Panetta has obviously been chastened for his wild outbursts against Israel lately, and told to only do them late at night.
I’ve got you guys in prayer. Chag sameach Chanukkah.
Yea, I told Ted last year that the MO of the Israeli Government is to discredit first those who they want to uproot. Watch for more incidents and some potential Baruch Goldstein to commit some major incident. Right now it seems they are still in the softening up mode but all the signs are there for a repeat of Katif, Yamit and Amona. I have said since Yamit that if the residents to be removed are unwilling to physically defend themselves from the IDF and other security organizations, they have already lost. Only real fear by the government of a real hot civil war might, just might deter them. If the threat is really credible it might deter them based on political cost analysis.
Yamit, we are more or less in the same page.
I provided work and training to a YAMIT outfit that did electronic assembly work for other firms. I saw what Begin, Dayan, Hanegbi did there and will never forget or forgive the “idf” role. The idf since then has turned into a political tool against Jews. Not in the least a Jewish National Defense fighting force. And since Oslo the idf is a equipment storage outfit and not a fighting force against foreign enemies.
It is proven to be only a vicious aggregate against… Jews. I live in the North and as veteran soldier saw in dismay the “idf in action” during Lebanon II… Ghastly zebel. The liers, political commanders served untrained troops for the enemy target practice. They did not even show up in support of my town, not even once while we took almost two hundred rockets from Hizbollah.
WARNING! I identified certain US built camps in Israel years ago and also follow closely the troops movements and who is given command of what. Some of the “special” US troops that left Iraq are posted now in Jordan and can be he Yesh in hours… The positioning of a vicious “meretz general” as Central Command and others as well, augure MEGA DISENGAGEMENT being coordinated by Barak, on BB’s behalf during every trip they make to the US.
Forget the pompous, bombastic speeches by BB. All prepared to mislead.
Dov Shurin – We Will Not Be Uprooted!!!
drjb says:
December 19, 2011 at 6:17 am
Another great article by Feiglin. He certainly delivers his message on a consistent and eloquent basis.
January 31 is the date for the Likud primaries to be held in conjunction with the Likud Central Committee elections. It effectively represents
Yamit, please comment.
For the past year I haven’t been following Feiglin and his minions. I have personally ejected from my consciousness the Likud of either being or representing the right. They aren’t and if they were they would have risen up and denied BB, his ability to freeze construction, the persecution of the good Jews in Y&S, and keeping Barak and 3 other ministers from Barak’s party.
I call the LIkud the silence of the Sheeple Lemmings. As long as they fear BB (and they do) more than they fear Feiglin. he has no chance. Then I asked myself what’s the point? Feiglin could have been a MK long ago with other party’s if that is his primary goal. BB has outsmarted and out maneuvered him from the first day. He has wasted years trying to prove a point and concept that was flawed from the onset.
The country has the time and the patience to wait like Begin for 33 years before he gains political power? There is a vacuum and Feiglin refuses to fill it in it’s entirety or partially. I have no belief or faith in Feiglin, even while we are mostly on the same page politically, I say so what? Me agreeing politically with Feiglin does not transfer into political support. He has a small group of die-hard supporters but has not broken out. I think he has PEAKED AND HAS NO-WHERE TO GO. While I admire tenacity there comes a point where reality must be faced and he hasn’t faced the obvious. That eliminates any support from me.
I wish him well in whatever he chooses to do after he leaves Likud; about 10 wasted years too late.
He had the opportunity back in 2007 to expose the fact that – inter alia – the Palestinian Movement was essentially a Nazi creation, and thus make the so-called “peace process” untenable.
However, he utterly failed to do so and thus Netanyahu won the leadership of Likud.
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/manhigut_email.htm
’bout three weeks ago I decided that I had enough of the duplicitous horse feathers of the likud and cut bait after many years of Central Committee and other work for that mixed salad bowl of crass opportunists at best. I followed my friend Dr. Uzi Landau.
Mr. Feiglin is far too good a Jew to be part of that crowd that produced some of the most ghastly trash in Israeli politics. He will never be given his gained positions. The combina will see to that he is not allowed.
He could make his very patriotic views be considered easily if he gets out of the miasma.
Some likud luminaries of late…
Ariel Sharon… a monumental false coin who was about to be indicted when it happened.
Omri Sharon who spend his time in jail. (His brother hid behind the 5th).
Hirsheson. Still in jail
Tzachi Hanegbi, found guilty.
Ehud Olmert. Need we add anything?
Mrs. Livni, scion to the gang of mandate thieves above and herself… I’ll leave it at that.
Not to mention the LIKUD being still led by the “disengagement” gangs.
Who are some of those? Shalom, Livnat, etc. ALL Sharon “disengagement” peons.
As to the Jewish Youth that finally marked a line to the idf political generals specializing on assaulting unarmed Jewish families since many years back. KOL HAKAVOD to those youngsters if in reality they stomped the demolition crews a bit. The truth is that many suspect it was a “yevsektziah” job.
I am a decorated in action former soldier from the IDF. Also a retired Senior-Fellow Engineer US DoD Military Avionics Programs and invited consultant to the IMoD.
The present Israeli command layer is despicable, untrustworthy, treacherous and those being its best attributes. They match the supreme courtiers at that.
It is high time for thinking people to organize a clean up crew and flush the stables clean.
It’s drivel like this that convinces me more and more that Feiglin would destroy the Likud if he ever, God forbid, became the party leader. And worse, it Feiglin became Prime Minister, he would destroy the country.
For good reason the Likud has banished Feiglin to the sidelines because the Likud wants to lead Israel, not sit in opposition and complain while Kadima, Meretz, Labor, and their Arab allies surrender Israel to our enemies. Feiglin says that because the Left wing Pro Palestinians attack the IDF and don’t get criticized by the Left wing press, it’s okay for settler youth to do the same thing, the only problem being that the Leftis t Israeli media criticizes them for doing it. Feiglin makes stupid, shallow, and irrational comparisons of vigilante violence with the legal acts of the legitimate and democratically elected government of Israel. Feiglin compares the boorish and illegal acts of a bunch of vigilantes who are only safe from the Arabs they cowardly attack because of the presence of the IDF with legal and effective missions of that IDF.
These settler youth on the hilltops are irresponsible and their vandalism is reckless and is only doing harm to the settler movement, endangering other settlers, and risking turning acts of vandalism into acts of premeditated murder.
This is what Feiglin supports and this is why he should never ever be elected to a leadership position in the Likud, much less the government.
Yeah, right. Everyone here seems to think he or she does. I have my own “End Times” scenario, and it’s not pretty. The final chapter, after all this Syria and Iran, etc. business plays itself out, is that, to quote Zechariah 14, ALL the nations of the world attack Israel. Israel takes a real beating; but you wouldn’t want to be in one of those nations either: Their tongues will rot in their mouths and their eyes in their sockets while they still stand. There’s only one weapon in history that has ever been able to do that, and it’s the atomic bomb. If I were an Atheist reading this, I should seriously take note of it: Zechariah knew about the atomic bomb some 2500 years ago. Either he was WAYYY smarter than Einstein, or the Bible was divinely inspired.
Anyway, back to the “war game”, in the “Big Game” of real life, a nuclear war translates not into instant, painless extinction, but in millions of people suffering painful burns, wandering around with their skin hanging from their bodies, all the hospitals destroyed, and nobody well enough to care for them. It will be a time of tremendous misery. NOBODY will be raptured out of it. What’s more, I expect it to happen in the next decade or so — and I pray that the Iranians not be the ones lobbing the weapons.
The game I was thinking of, was one where settlers are trying to build civilized lives in the midst of barbarians, just like the in the Wild West; except this would be in the Wild West Bank. There’s money in it, for a geek with a little imagination. I would hope that a Zionist geek could come up with it before an Antisemite geek does; but I might be dreaming.
Shalom shalom, and bomb the hell out of the Ayatollah.
Bland, there is a gamer operation out there that matches different armies in games ie Spartans versus Roman legions. I heard they caused a ruckus a year or so ago, with a game called IDF versus Iranian republican guard. I don’t need to see it because I already know the ending.
Another great article by Feiglin. He certainly delivers his message on a consistent and eloquent basis.
January 31 is the date for the Likud primaries to be held in conjunction with the Likud Central Committee elections. It effectively represents Feiglin’s last “kick at the can” within Likud. He has to emerge within the top 10 in the Likud list (and hope that Bibi doesn’t push him to 36 on the list again) AND the Central Committee has to reflect a much larger and stronger Manhigut Yehudit-friendly membership. Failure to capture such results would, in my estimation, force Feiglin and his supporters to seek greener pastures with Bayt Yehudit or Ichud Leumi. It is ironic that Bibi’s urge to advance the Likud primaries may very well serve Feiglin’s interest. Feiglin gets his kick at the can now; if he does well, his stature and influence within the Likud in particular, and Israeli politics in general, immediately increases. If he does poorly, he declares that Likud no longer represents the values and aspirations of the Right, and still has plenty of time before the next general elections, slated for 2013, to re-organize himself and his supporters with any of the religious-zionist parties, maybe uniting them to become a solid, hard to ignore, political force.
I hope this time Feiglin seizes this opportunity to emerge as a charismatic, courageous and articulate leader.
Yamit, please comment.
There ought to be a video game called “Settlers”, something of a cross between “The Ten Commandments” of the 1950s and a cowboy western. Where are the techie savvy Jews who want to make money? This thing could top the charts! Netanyahu could be Chief Dathan.
P. S. The Iranians have a gun pointed at you, if you haven’t noticed.
Moshe Feiglin is running for Likud Party chairman.
I don’t expect him to win – BB and his hacks fear him and if he is anywhere close to the brass ring, they will cancel the Likud Central Committee elections and Israel’s leftist Supreme Court will sanction their move.
But he has put forward a coherent alternative vision for Israel and someday, I do expect someone like him to become Israel’s Prime Minister.
Its one of the great mysteries of the Universe, why Feiglin isn’t PM of Israel?