When A "Storm" Isn't A Storm

Reported:-

Moshe Feiglin, from the Likud Beiteinu party, stormed Al Aqsa Mosque on Tuesday at 1:30 pm, guarded by the occupation forces, Al-Aqsa Foundation for Waqf and Heritage reported.  Al-Aqsa mosque witnessed a state of alert by the occupation forces, while hundreds of Muslim worshipers, Jerusalemites, residents of 1948-occupied territories and students gathered in al-Aqsa mosque Squares expressing their anger and rejection of such raids.

Such florid prose!


More pics:

Is he talking to God?

See how they 'storm'.

They sit ...  and they sit:

Consider:

Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Islamic movement in the Palestinian 1948-occupied territories, stressed that the Palestinian youths are showing determination to resist and defeat the Israeli aggression...Concerning his position regarding visiting Al-Aqsa Mosque under the Israeli occupation and with Israeli prior permission, the head of the Islamic Movement called the Arabs and Muslims to support the Jerusalemites by not granting the occupation legitimacy.

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Feiglin's Admission

The Likud's outsider, Moshe Feiglin, finally realized what I and others have been writing for years.  His approach was wrong.

Oh how much money was wasted supporting his Jewish Leadership outfit in its stand-off-on-the-sidelines attitude for almost a decade or so.

But last night, after finally, as of the present, achieving a realistic slot, we read

Feiglin expressed joy that he will finally be entering the Knesset after trying twice before and being blocked by legal challenges initiated by Netanyahu. He credited his decision to tone down his rhetoric and work within the system in Likud rather than try to take it over.
“I changed my style but not my values,” Feiglin said. “The journey I began when I said that this is our land will continue now from inside the parliament. My values have gone into the Likud through the front door, enabling us to defend Israel from its enemies and make it into a state of Jewish freedom.”

He was never considered a Likudnik.

I once, almost facetiously, suggested to him to take over a smaller party, like Meretz, as with the Likud he was going nowhere.

We now have to see if he does get in.

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What Moshe Feiglin Thinks About Moshe Yaalon

This is what he thinks:

Bogie Ya'alon is a Jew with roots in the Mapai of old,

who has not yet adopted the rightist slave mentality.

I wonder want Bogie thinks about Feiglin.

Feiglin Knew It

He called it. This:

The Supreme Court overturned Sunday a Tel Aviv District Court decision that had restored party activist Moshe Feiglin and former MKs Michael Ratzon and Ehud Yatom to their previous places on the Likud list. The three were originally demoted by Likud's election committee two weeks ago.

In its ruling, the court accepted the Likud election committee's appeal to retain Feiglin in the borderline 36th slot.

Here he called it:

In response to the action of the Likud Elections committee that bumped me from the 20th to the 36th spot on the Likud Knesset list, I have received numerous phone calls from attorneys urging me to appeal to the Israeli Supreme Court. They assure me that the committee does not have a legal leg to stand on, and that I will surely win the case. But I am not going to appeal to the court.

...I have already announced time and again that I have no faith in the current court system. If I would now enter the Knesset due to a court decision, I would not be standing up for my convictions. If the Supreme Court rejected my appeal, I would not be able to complain; after all, I was the one who appealed to the court. And if the Supreme Court ruled in my favor, I would not be able to work to replace it - because I would already have recognized the "justice" of the court...

An Example of Progressive Blogging

Gershom Gorenberg has a piece in The American Prospect entitled, "The Rebel Prince", against Moshe Feiglin. And also at his South Jerusalem blog, shared with HaimWatzman.

I, too, do not support Feiglin and his Jewish Leadership group, but I don't like what Gorenberg did there.

He notes that "on the Jewish Leadership website, a Hebrew document proposes principles for a constitution for Israel". The unavoidable presumption is that the document is an official one.

But anyone with a modicum of Hebrew could have read and known that that "document" was composed by Prof. Hillel Weiss and it was uploaded as part of an internal discussion as to the future character of a Jewish state. The implication suggested that that document is the agreed upon approach, decided at some official convocation, is not only wrong but intended to be misleading.

Shame he did that 'before the goyim'.

The Anti-Moshe Feiglin Poster

Up on billboards and posterboards and on web sites:



The main message is based on this poll:

An internet-based poll conducted for the Knesset Channel and reported by News1 shows the Likud gaining six less Knesset seats in the upcoming elections if Moshe Feiglin is included in a meaningful position in its list.

According to the poll, Likud without Feiglin will receive 36 seats but Likud with Feiglin will only receive 30 MKs. Most of the six seats lost will go to current ruling party Kadima

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and the background:

A group of Likud MKs hope to stop central committee member Moshe Feiglin from making the party's Knesset list in Monday's party primary by appealing directly to his likely supporters.

The veteran lawmakers, who call themselves "The Land of Israel Faithful in the Likud," are launching an advertising campaign on Thursday geared toward haredim and settlement supporters.

Via religious newspapers, billboards in haredi neighborhoods and letters to the homes of settlement-backers, the group will ask for their votes in the primary and remind them that they also opposed the 2005 disengagement from the Gaza Strip.

Among the Likud MKs involved are Gilad Erdan, Reuven Rivlin, Yuli Edelstein, Moshe Kahlon and former MKs Ayoub Kara and Michael Ratzon, who are also running in next week's primary. The ads will appear in the Makor Rishon, Besheva and Yediot Yesha newspapers, among others...

Feiglin Is Off and Running

Israel enters a period of elections which means that the parties themselves have to make arrangements to form a list since we have a Proportional Representation system.

There may be primaries, there may be appointment committees and there are Rabbinical councils.

Moshe Feiglin, head of the Jewish Leadership faction within Likud already has advertisements up at Internet sites such as the Jerusalem Post:-



I don't think the caricature does him the proper likeness.

What Does Smith Rhyme With?

The deputy leader of Israel’s Likud party, Moshe Feiglin, has been excluded from Britain by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith using powers invoked after the July 2005 London bombings — even though he had no plans to visit.

In a two-page letter sent to Mr Feiglin’s office in Ginot Shomron, an unnamed Border and Immigration Agency official, writing on Ms Smith’s behalf, cited articles written by Mr Feiglin and said she had “personally directed” that he be banned.

The letter said: “It is considered that you are seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred which might lead to inter-community violence in the UK.

“In light of these factors, the Home Secretary is satisfied you should be excluded from the UK on the grounds that your exclusion is conducive to the public good.” There is no right of appeal.

My Letter in the Five Towns' Jewish Times

Preserving The Temple Mount

Dear Editor,

Moshe Feiglin writes in his article (“Capital for Sale,” Nov. 2) that “The Jews have betrayed the Temple Mount.” Although his analysis is correct regarding the dangers from the rampant and resurgent Islam we witness, which also seeks to wrest the Temple Mount from Israel, I would suggest that it is not “the Jews” who have betrayed Judaism’s most sacred site. Israel’s government, the Chief Rabbinate, and the judges of the High Courts of Justice ever since 1967 are guilty. They have been negligent; they have been afraid to assert sovereignty; they have permitted the desecration of the site and the destruction of its antiquities.

I, for one, have not been party to these actions, and there are many thousands like me. Over the years, we have demonstrated, we have visited those portions outside the prohibited areas, we have walked around the gates, and we have educated tens of thousands about the Temple, its history, and its future. So much more can be done. I appeal, then, to the many good Jews who read this paper and who do not want to be counted as a “betrayer of the Temple Mount” to get involved. There is much to do.

Yisrael Medad
Secretary, El Har Hashem Society,
Jerusalem
yisrael.medad@gmail.com