Moshe Feiglin: “The next election will about the identity of the state.”

Likud primary candidate Moshe Feiglin: Our soldiers didn’t give their lives for a democratic state, rather for the Jewish state.

By Yoni Kempinski, INN

Moshe Feiglin, a candidate in the Likud primaries, visited the Israel National News studio in Jerusalem as part of his bid to lead the Likud in the next general elections. Feiglin, who has in the past served on the Likud and led his own party, says that there is a more sinister motive behind the tendency to insist on Israel being a democratic state.

“No soldier in the Palmach died screaming that ‘I am giving my life for a democratic state,” Feiglin insists. “This was introduced as part of the Oslo process, in an attempt to turn Israel from a Jewish State into a ‘state of all its citizens’. Barak, who was responsible for the process, even said so explicitly.”

Feiglin sums up his thoughts on such a state in one sentence: “A ‘state of all its citizens’ very quickly becomes a state of all its Arabs. We have seen over the past year what it means when we give up on our Jewish identity.”

Identity, according to Feiglin, will be the key issue in Israel’s coming elections. “The next election will not be about security or the economy, but about the identity of the state.”

Democracy, Feiglin claims, has being used for more than just combating Jewish identity: “the left, which preaches democracy, is the furthest thing from it. They are using democracy to import radical, progressive agendas. We on the right are far more democratic than they will ever be.”

“I am returning to politics because I feel that I am needed,” Feiglin explains. “We should, of course, run the state democratically – but there must be clear boundaries to this. Someone needs to make and hold the line.”

“I am returning to the Likud because that is where the majority is,” Feiglin says. “That is the home of the Jewish majority of israel. There are other sectors of the population, but we will lead from there.”