ISRAEL HAYOM
Zehut party leader Moshe Feiglin says he sees no difference between Meretz, New Right and Yesh Atid • Zehut will get youth vote, he says • Announcing party’s Knesset list, Yisrael Beytenu head Lieberman says he hopes to make double-digit Knesset seats.
In an interview with Israel Hayom, Feiglin, who in the past ran for leadership of the Likud party, said, “We are not just talking about the electoral threshold, looking at the momentum we have created, we can be much more than that.”
Feiglin is dismissive of recent polls that do not bode well for Zehut.
“The polls don’t know how to model politicians like myself or parties like Zehut because we bring dialogue to Israeli politics,” he said. “I don’t see a difference in the political perception of [New Right party leader Naftali] Bennett, [Meretz party leader Tamar] Zandberg or [Yesh Atid party leader Yair] Lapid. They all say the same thing in the end. I walk around and see that the young people are drifting and that people understand that I bring [with me] a new [kind of] politics, and that is why they will vote for me.”
Feiglin said he refused offers to unite with Otzma Yehudit and other political parties on the Right.
“I’ve been with the same woman since the eighth grade,” he said. “So I am not someone who zigzags. I am constantly being asked to think like the herd and join the bloc, but the bloc doesn’t interest me. You want to know who I merged with? [Former Shas MK] Rabbi Haim Amsalem and [stand-up comedian] Gadi Wilcherski [both of whom recently joined Zehut] – from my perspective, they are the merger.”
Feiglin after years in the wilderness has become totally delusional. But at least in a few more weeks he will have the facts thrown in this face, which is not saying that it will cure his disease.