T. Belman. I fully support Saar. He is the future. Bibi has outlived his usefulness. Read Saar’s policies carefully.
Gideon Sa’ar in Ramat GanCredit: Public relations
MK Gideon Sa’ar was in Ramat Gan on Saturday night with over 150 Likudniks in attendance ahead of the pre-election Likud primaries on Thursday.
“Change is a good thing,” Sa’ar said. “It’s a welcome thing. Every system – private or public – needs to change. And it’s time for a change.”
“We followed the Prime Minister for more than 20 years,” Sa’ar continued. “But the Prime Minister is blocked and it’s unreasonable that the Likud will remain blocked and the state will be stuck. If we don’t make a change this Thursday, there is a high likelihood of a change in the March 2 election – the rise of a left-wing government to power that will endanger everything dear to us.”
“The polls show that if the Likud is headed by me, the bloc already stands at 60-61 seats. Those numbers will jump after I’m elected on Thursday. I know how to bring new voters. It’s possible to win 40 seats!”
“My candidacy stemmed from the understanding that the state must be rescued from the political imbroglio and address issues that are important to citizens rather than just engaging in never-ending elections. When I was the Education Minister, all the indices jumped. We recently saw the decline reflected in the PISA [OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment] indices. I formulated a detailed program focused on improving teaching quality.”
“On the subject of bureaucracy – a national headquarters must be established to fight bureaucracy and reduce regulation. Citizens shouldn’t be given the runaround. Justice system reforms must be implemented. The government’s role is not to organize demonstrations, but to make the necessary changes to fix the systems.”
“Standards must be applied to doctors and nurses in hospitals and gaps in health services between the center of the country and the periphery must be reduced. I have organized plans in all areas. It’s absurd that there hasn’t been a Likud platform for many years.”
“We must unite the Jewish people, repair the rifts between the different parts of society – and I’ll do this. Our enemies don’t differentiate between us – as far as they’re concerned – eliminate all of us. Unity is an asset in dealing with the challenges of the future, with a focus on national security challenges.”
@ Ted Belman:
That’s O.K. Ted, I wrote as I did to get a response such as you just made.. No problem. I also lost another, an answer to Philippe the other day , I believe it was the first time that the Disqus slot situation began.
@ Edgar G.:
I have never erased your comments nor would I. I did a search of all your comments and did not see the ones you say are missing. I have no idea what went wrong with them.
As for yopur email, I read it and intended to deal with it. Unfortunately I do not knowwhy that happened. I intend to contact my techie but that is a process that takes days.
I’ll try to provide you with answers.
Happy Hanukah.
TED- Are you erasing my comments. On this thread, I posted against your position of “Netanyahu has outlived his usefulness”, i said that you would discard him like “throwing a worn out pair of shoes int the garbage”…..
Also on this same page, when ADAM wished members a “Happy Chanukah”, I posted response that “I reciprocated”, and described briefly the visit of my daughter and children to conduct a Chanukah lighting . I said it was just like in the “old days”,..etc.
BOTH of these posts, printed and visible on this page, have vanished ……..
Also…a few days ago, I wrote specifically to your private email, that my user name, email address and website, which always automatically appeared, at the 3 Disqus slots below the “posting” box, now had vanished, replaced with my REAL name and etc…causing me to delete them, and need to insert my user name, for every post. So something has gone very wrong .
I see that this still happens, and whereas you are normally very helpful and quickly responding, …now there is merely SILENCE.
I do not understand this (and I hope this post stays long enough for you to read it)….. Could you please take a few moments to consider my remarks above. Thank you.
@ Adam Dalgliesh:
Happy Hanukkah!!!!
@ Bear Klein: At last we agree about something, Bear! Happy Hanukkah to you and your family.
@ Adam Dalgliesh:I agree the Supreme Court should let voters decide and as Shaked has pointed out Israeli Basic Law gives the President the right to determine who should be given a chance to form a coalition. It should NOT be the Supreme Court.
@ David melech: Good point
Suppose they had an erection and no one showed up? The beach or the park sound better. Does it right now matter who wins the country is unable to function.
@ Bear Klein: If the primary picks Netanyahu and the “Supremes” then rule afterwards that he can not form a new government, the central committee may be forced to make an emergency decision on a replacemnt for Netanyahu, rather than hold a second primary, which would cause great confusion. I believe the central committee can make such a decision in an emergency situation.
If the “Supremes “rule before December 26 that Netanyahu is ineligible to form a new government, which they seem intent on doing, the central committee may postpone the primary in order to allow additional candidates to enter the race. Nearly all Likudniks will resent this illegal meddling in their internal processes by the Supremes.
@ Bear Klein:
Not For Me, “Premature”
So, if I were a voter undecided as to whom I would choose between Sa’ar and Netanyahu and I wished for Bennet to remain in his present post of DM, it would be helpful to have the answers to those questions I posed above, in order to clarify in my own mind as to whether I could live with Sa’ar, whether some may believe them to be, “premature” or not.
@ Wooly Mammoth:
There would be no issues with the New Right and Saar in the same coalition they have the same views.
The rest of the questions are premature, first the election, then the negotiations between all the various parties and then then coalition.
@ Bear Klein:
Is there any indication that Sa’ar would extend an offer to Bennet to continue on as Defense Minister in a new gov’t coalition headed by The Likud under Sa’ar? How about a position for Shaked?
What does Bennet and Shaked think about joining a Sa’ar led coalition gov’t?
That is if anyone knows…..
@ Adam Dalgliesh:
I wanted to point out to you the Likud picks its leader via a Primary of all its members not via its central committee.
@ Ted Belman:
I concur with you that the leadership of Saar & Bennett would be the right way to go for Israel now.
Israel needs bold new leaders now and not someone just trying to hang for dear life.
Saar is unlikely to be chosen by the Likud as its candidate. Bibi still has considerable prestige and influence among Likud members and leaders. If the Supremes force him out of the race, the Likud central committee will probably replace him not with Saar, whom Bibi dislikes, but with Bibi’s friend, friend , the foreign minister Katz. The Knesset speaker Edelstein is a possible compromise choice. Miri Regev the minister of culture and a Bibi loyalist, is another possibility. But whether any of these individuals will be able to lead Likud to victory is problematical.
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This doesn’t look good for Netanyahu. I don’t know whether it will help Sa’ar or not.
The Supreme Court has no legal right to decide who may or may not be chosen by the Knesset to form a government. They have no legal right to ban candidates from running for the Knesset. THey have simply appropriated these powers to themselves, while a supine legislature has tolerated this usurpation of illegal powers.
Bibi has also condoned the Supreme Court’s usurpations. His failure to support legislation placing reasonable limits on the courts powers has come back to haunt him.
If a genuinely patriotic and courageous knesset is ever elected, it must take emergency action to dismiss the partisan judges and prosecutors, place strict limits on the powers of future judges and prosecutors, place prosecutors and the attorney general under the authority of the Minister of Justice, who should have the power to dismiss them as in democratic countries. None should be allowed to hold office without confirmation by the Knesset.
The Knesset should also appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the numerous breaches of trust and abuses of power by partisan judges and and prosecutors. The political prosecutors must be prosecuted, and the political judges judged. That is the only way to insure a nonpartisan, apoltical judiciary which makes a good faith effort to judge each case on its merits rahter than using their powers to remove people from public office or put them in jail because they disapprove of their political opinions.
There must be an enforcement commissioner or commission elected by the Knesset with the power to veto illgal court rulings or orders and illegal orders by the attorney general.
The Knesset should give itself the power to veto court rulings as well.
The courts should not have the power to veto legislation enacted into law by the Knesset.
Basic Law One declares the Knesset to be the “sovereign ” power in Israel, not the courts. The Knesset should have the guts to assert its legitimate constitutional sovereign powers, and to prevent and punish abuses by the other branches of government. However, I fear that such a gutsy Knesset my never be elected. If it isn’t Israel is doomed in the long run.
No country can endure long if it empowers judges sympathetic to terrorists and aggressors against the state, and hostile to patriotic elected officials, unlimited power outside the law. And that is the kind of state that Israel has become.
All power to the Knesset! Remove from power the lawyer-oligarchs!