This is the result of a society where there is no "kavód adám" - respect for others and no "yir'át haShém" - fear of G-d.
The leaders of this society have followed the pagan west and decided to part with part of the Land in a vain attempt to appease those Arabs who would exterminate us. This is true of the Likud as it is of the other political parties in Israel. So we see Israelis expelling Jews from their rightful homes, destroying synagogues, and creating a population of internal refugees in the land of Israel. We see where the "Peoples' Republic of Tel Aviv," rich and wealthy, doesn't give a damn for the rest of the nation, so much so that the government which represents it cares neither for the cripples, nor for the victims of the Nazi gas ovens, nor for the veterans who bravely fought to defend this Land against the Arabs, nor for the victims of Arab bombardment in the north, not to mention the victims of its own demented policies of expulsions of Jews from their homes in Gush Qatif, the Shomron, or Hebron.
Add to this a mentality that allows a criminal mafia to thrive and flourish on drug and human trafficking, exploitation of foreign workers, exploitation of prostitutes, exploitation of the common man with a burdensome and heartless bureaucracy, and you have a picture of modern Israel - truly "a generation of reversals whose upbringing is not in them."
No man running for office here presents any possibility of change from this path of evil - except Moshe Feiglin and the Jewish Leadership Faction in the Likud that he built from scratch.
No man presents the possibility of preventing the awful punishments warned of in our Books of Prophecy from coming true - except Moshe Feiglin and the Jewish Leadership Faction in the Likud that he built from scratch.
This is because controlling the Likud, a party built on the abiding idea of a nation settled from the Sea to Both Banks of the River, allows a politician to center himself where the majority of Israelis wish to be - a position of strength and honor where they themselves do not feel that they are being made suckers of by their government.
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1 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
Moshe Feiglin saved this last little jab at Netanyahu for last. Apparently Netanyahu and Jews for Jesus rent HQ's in the same building. There was no condemnation by Netanyahu of the activities of Jews for Jesus, a thinly disguised Protestant campaign begun in 1973 to steal Jews from Judaism. The bastards have an HQ in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, brazen scum that they are. And the government sees to fit to do nothing and say nothing.
According to the article,
The Dugit employees said it was not a missionary organization. But their web site describes their efforts to get as many people as possible in Tel Aviv to declare Jesus as the Lord. A spokesman for the Yad L'Achim anti-missionary organization said Dugit tries to convert Jews to Christianity. He said Netanyahu had torpedoed anti-missionary legislation in the past because of his ties to Evangelical Christian leaders.
Just a note for the Hebrew impaired. Dugit is a term relating to the fish used as a symbol of Christianity. Using a cross would alienate too many people here. The remainder of th article can be accessed at the link above...
I have to leave now to catch a bus to j-lem to vote in the primary for Likud leadership. Apparently the polls are open until 23:00, not 21:00. So fellow Likud members, GET DOWN TO BUSINESS AND VOTE!!
2 - Catey
Wow. And here I was thinking that everyone hated us and wanted to blow us up because we are pro Israel. But wait, there is thinking within the thinking that over rules the thought of the original thinking, so it is now a whole different story from a different wayof thinking, but one think is for sure. It will be my fault.
3 - MAOZ
Ruvy, you mean there's no Likud branch in Ma'aleh Levona?
(You know, they're doing it this time such that eligible voters can vote at ANY polling place anywhere in the country.)
(And yes, I did vote already; and like you, I am hoping that Feiglin will win!)
4 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
MAOZ,
There is no branch of the Likud in Ma'aléh Levoná. There is no bank, barely a post office, a small makólet (mini-market) and a shop that sells other stuff that is open for two hours a day.
This a yishuv of 500 people!
So, it is easier to travel to Jerusalem, meet my wife and vote with her at Binynéi haUmá (a largish convention center near the Central Bus Station).
That is what we did.
To explain to the rest of you:
At each of the tables at the polling room in Binynéi haUmá, there were a pair of people with a laptop which had all the registered members of the Likud. We presented our identity cards which were checked against the membership list, given an envelope, and we went to a private enclosure and picked a small "pétek" with the name of one of the three candidates which we put in the envelope. We then deposited the envelope into a blue box which was locked and sealed. For those of you to whom the "NOTA" idea is important, there was a blank sheet of paper which could have been put in as a NOTA vote, or used a a write-in.
Now we see.
The Voice of Israel, the government controlled left wing station, is already acting as if it is a forgone conclusion that Netanyahu will win. This was as of 20:30. Polls close in one hour from now, at 23:00.
5 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
Arutz Sheva reports that as of 21:44, Israel time, a little over an hour ago, 36% of the 100,000 Likud members had voted in the primary elections for the head of the party.
6 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
Ynet News, the English on-line website of the newspaper Yediot AHronot reported 36.5% of the Likud's members voting in the primary election by 21:46, over an hour ago. Apparently, Netanyahu fears a low turnout. He ordered the polls kept open an extra two hours until 23:00, so as to counter the low turnout...
7 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
Ynetnews, the English language website of Yediot AHronot states that unofficial results as of 0:15 indicate that Netanyahu got 75% of the votes cast, Feiglin got 20% and a third candidate got 5%. We'll see what official results bring.
If this news is true, then may G-d help us here; we are headed for the déluge I warned of.
8 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
And now we see the consequences of a Netanyahu victory.
Feiglin is being barred from being present at Netanyahu's victory speech. If this is any harbinger of the future, Netanyahu - a furniture salesman turned into a bigshot by the CFR - is going to strip the Likud of its last nationalist elements and will very likely find some way to expel Feiglin and his followers from the Likud.
Under Netanyahu, the Likud will turn into a me-too of Labor permanently - a garbage party filled with the same kind of trash that inhabits Kadima now.
Is this good for the country? I don't know. But if Netanyahu does what I expect him to do with respect to Feiglin, he will sign the warrant to end his own career.
9 - Zedd
Ruvy
You are truly insane, in a funny sort of way! Is that a personal attack? I hope not.
I enjoyed reading your meltdown and I sit here astonished at the nerviness that's just unfolded before my eyes, line by line.
How do you keep from exploding? If there are more of you in Israel, I can't imagine how that nation functions. All of that emotion!
Again, every time I read your pieces, I can’t help but recall with a smirk my pseudo radical years when slogans like "where will you be when the revolution comes?" , were sacred and held some underlying meaning which was too deep for us to understand. I recall the feeling, the swelling up with pride, the resolve and BIGNESS of it all. It was a magical time.
Alas... With my crippling inability to take much of anything too seriously, while attending some of the meetings or rallies, I would look at some of the radicals and their gray steal determination, as they made their speeches, imagining them letting out a loud messy fart or an abnormally long burp or something equally mortifying. I'd up having to walk out because of an unyielding need to fall on the ground laughing. I’m sure some looked at the tears in my eyes thinking that I was moved…. Sigh, it wasn't for me. Besides I grew up....
10 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
"I recall the feeling, the swelling up with pride, the resolve and BIGNESS of it all. It was a magical time."
The late sixties was a magical time. Revolution, pot and lots of sex in the air (well actually on the ground, or up against a car or wall - and anywhere else that was available...); then those kids got killed at Kent State. It brought home the fact that war is a serious business, and revolution even more so. When faced with these facts, most people back away from this deadly business, calling it "growing up". I know I did.
But here in Israel, I've been backed into the position I'm in, Zedd.
My original intent was to come and manage fast food restaurants, particularly burger joints - this is what I did in the States. But that little boy fucker Arafat ran a terror campaign that chased the tourists away - along with all the business in the burger joints. So I had to transform into something else - a freelance writer. That is a much rougher business...
We couldn't afford to stay in the high rent district of Jerusalem, so we moved to the "low rent" district of Judea and Samaria. Living here, I cannot afford the delusions held by the fools in the People's Republic of Tel Aviv and other delusion filled places in this country. I have to deal with reality. Call it Growing Up.
One of the realities of Growing Up is facing down the fact that the voice of most Israelis is effectively squelched by a leftist media devoted to serving a traitorous régime. It's not your problem - but it is mine.
Another reality of Growing Up is facing down the fact that the idiot who claims the title "prime minister" is supported by five percent of the public. The rest of us want the bastard kicked out. Some of us want him executed, along with the president, security minister, foreign minister and most of the parliament. But there is no avenue for our voices to be heard. Our "politicians" don't give a damn what we say - they only give a damn about the next bribe coming their way. It's not your problem - but it is mine.
When I see a possible way out, I advocate it. You call that drama. I call the innumerable articles at Blogcritics about Iraq and Rove and homosexuals worthless trash. And then there are the outright lies and distortions of what goes on here - what you call useful information. More worthless trash, praised by the blind who would lead the blind. But there they are along with the few articles here that make a little sense. Accepting that any "information" outlet is 90% garbage is also part of Growing Up.
Drama is part of life, along with passion. And part of Growing Up is accepting that fact, too.
Finally, instead of deluding oneself about how big one is, there is the issue of accepting the fact that sometimes history forces you to face up to its ugly facts. That doesn't require "bigness", but it does require Growing Up; sometimes it requires doing things that one might do in a revolution. That happens too. Had you stayed in South Africa, you would have seen this first hand. But your parents moved you to America, so you didn't.
So, Grow Up, Zedd... Or at least try.
11 - Christopher Rose
Didn't the "terror campaign" start before you moved to Israel?
How come only 5% of your country support your government? Where do you get that figure from?
When is the next Israeli election? Wouldn't that be an avenue for your voice to be heard?
12 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
Chris,
1. The Al Aqsa Intifada - the latest incarnation of the Arab revolt against our resettlement - started 2 days before Rosh haShaná 5761 - before we moved here. Burt I didn't comprehend its effects until after we moved here, and until the government's refusal to put it down until the massacre at a seder caused a business recession here.
2. Poll: Only 5% Support Olmert. If you have been reading my articles here, you might understand why.
3. If you were to read this article, you would see how some of us sought one last chance to change the regime through legitimate and peaceful means. If you were to read comment #8 on this article, you would begin to see how it is that the voice of average Israelis are squelched and ignored. It has long been the custom for the loser in a primary election to arrive at the HQ of the winner and shake the man's hand. Bibi refused Feiglin entry to his HQ despite his assertions to the contrary. Does this tell you nothing? He is afraid of Feiglin and of what he represents and is trying to drive him from the Likud. Feiglin lost this primary. But when he started, he got 5% of the vote. Then he got 13%. In this last primary, he got 23%.
Netanyahu's actions are yet another attempt to squelch the voice of Israeli citizens with the false music of the liars in power. He is sealing the death warrant of his political career - and possibly his own death warrant - by trying to drive us out of the Likud. But that will be his problem to face - not mine.
13 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU
Peres holds secret meeting with Palestinian chief
Plan drafted by veteran politician would forfeit strategic West Bank
From the article:
Peres overstepping his boundaries?
When Peres assumed the role of president last month, political analysts and pundits here widely expected him to defy the limits of his office and take a hands-on role in Israeli diplomacy and policy making.
According to Knesset sources, Peres is contemplating even asking lawmakers to officially expand the role of the president to include conducting foreign policy.
During Peres' acceptance speech last month, he called for Israel to retreat from the West Bank. The next day, he called for direct negotiations with Syria, which is hosting top Palestinian terror leaders and supporting the Lebanese Hezbollah militia, which last summer launched thousands of rockets into Israeli population centers. Syrian President Bashar Assad warned several times the past few months his country is preparing for war.
Peres, Israel's longest standing Knesset member, was considered the driving force of the 1993 Oslo Accords. The Peres Peace Center, headed by the new president, advocates the division of Jerusalem and Israeli withdrawals from the strategic West Bank and Golan Heights.
Peres repeatedly has come under fire by critics for policies and plans many say would greatly undermine Israel's security if implemented.
An official biography of the elderly statesman released earlier this year, entitled "Shimon Peres," revealed a draft agreement he hammered out with West Germany in 1961 to allow the creation of German military bases on Israeli soil less than two decades after the Holocaust.
The biography also detailed a controversial plan Peres concocted to lease French Guyana from France and create an Israeli colony there at a time when the nine-year-old Israel was desperate for immigrants and struggling to establish itself.
This kind of development is precisely what I have been warning about for a year now. I now have the pleasure of rubbing your noses in the fact that I have been right - and ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE SAID THE CONTRARY HAVE BEEN WRONG!! But being right is no pleasure.
14 - Zedd
Ruvy,
I would say that you are blaming the wrong people for your trouble. Arafat wasn't the reason for your issues, it was what caused Arafat.
Unfortunately, you are supporting the machine which will create more Arafat's and worse. Enjoy!
I was born in the very late sixties so what I was describing was adolescence in general, not an era. Most of us grow up and come to understand cause and effect.
15 - Christopher Rose
Ruvy, your claim that only 5% support your PM is deceptive. The poll you linked to was addressing who should be the next PM and he got 5% in that report. That isn't the impression your original comment gave.
When the next Israeli election comes along, we will get an interesting snapshot of the political situation there. I look forward to seeing your contextualising of the results...
16 - MAOZ
(Apropos of #14:) Nu, nu, nu, Ruvy -- Don't you know it was the Israeli Occupation Of The Territories In 1967 that caused Arafat and his buddies to found the PLO in 1964? And that it was ire over the Occupation of '67 that drove half a dozen Arab armies to invade Israel in 1948? And that this same Arab ire over the Occupation of '67 was what fomented the Arab rioting in Hebron, Jerusalem, Tzfat, and elsewhere in our Land, in which scores of Jews were killed and hundreds wounded in 1936-39, 1929, 1921, etc.?
/sarc, for those who might not have picked up on it
17 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
MAOZ,
I think your comments are lost on a lot of "wunderkinder" that comment here. But the South Syrian Arab "poor Palestinian" agitprop bullshit machine has so many fools in its grip...
I fear that this primary was the last chance for a non-violent change to take place here in this country. An awful hell is coming our way soon. We'll see the first evidence of it soon after September brings the first chill of autumn - and death from renewed terror attacks.
This e-mail came into my in-box recently:
As most of you will know from September 1st there will no longer be Shomers (guards) at bus stops and on buses. This decision was taken by the Government due to the decline in suicide bombers.
I leave you to draw the obvious conclusions...