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Commentary;
In last week’s Parsha Vayeitzei, Yaakov tells his wives Rachel and Leah;
…Your father mocked me and changed my wage a hundred times, but Hashem did not permit him to harm me.” (Sefer Breish’t, Perek 31, posuk 7)
And like Lavan, Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu has subjected Moshe Feiglin, Manhigut Yehudit and Likud voters to repeated Lavan-like changes to the rules, both before primary day and now after.
Feiglin: The Voters have Spoken [And Again the Voter’s Will is Disrespected by Likud]
Feiglin Dropped to 35th or 36th Spot; Plans Appeal
Full Text;
The elections committee of the Likud party accepted a petition by Ofir Akuni, an associate of party lead Binyamin Netanyahu, that demands that the 20th spot on the party’s list of Knesset candidates by given to a woman. The decision means that Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership) faction leader Moshe Feiglin, who was in the 20th spot after Monday’s primary election, will now appear in the 36th spot.
While Feiglin stated after the primaries that the Likud might win 40 seats in February’s general election, the 36th spot may be less likely to enter the Knesset, according to others. Feiglin plans to appeal the decision.
Feiglin could still get a seat if Likud wins over 36 seats. But where does that place #33 Sheetrit, #35 Assulin. What impact does it have on Boaz HaEtzni who won the #36 slot? Does Bibi’s move bump him [HaEtzni] up?
What’s it do to #24. Mickey Ratzon, 25. Ayoub Kara?
Or does this only affect Feiglin?
Likud Committee Bumps Feiglin Down to 36 on Knesset List, by Gil Hoffman (Jerusalem Post)
Excerpts;
Following the decision, Feiglin announced that he would not file an appeal, saying that he had lost his faith in the justice system, Channel 2 reported late Thursday.
“I don’t want to be a member of Knesset by way of the High Court of Justice, I want to be an MK by way of the voter,” Feiglin said during an interview with Channel 1. He then went on to encourage the public to vote for Likud in the general election so as to enable him to enter the Knesset despite his low seat.
The reason for the demotion was that women candidates Leah Nass, Limor Livnat, Tzipi Hotovely and Gila Gamliel, who did well enough that they did not require slots reserved for them, canceled the women’s reserved slots and therefore those slots did not belong to the next top vote-getters on the national list – Feiglin and former MKs Michael Ratzon and Ehud Yatom. Instead, slots reserved for regions would begin earlier, thus bumping down Feiglin and the others.
“It was a mishap on the part of the legal advisers,” a source close to Likud chairman Binyamin “Bibi” Netanyahu had said Wednesday. “Bibi did not initiate the lawsuit, and it was not specifically aimed at Feiglin.”
The lawsuit was filed by Netanyahu-ally Ophir Akunis, who had won the 28th spot on the list.
Miri Regev, the former IDF spokesperson who had served in the post during the Second Lebanon War, and who had initially been voted into the 34th spot on the Likud list, also scored a victory on Thursday when the elections committee decided to push her up to the 27th spot.
Other changes in the list include Michael Ratzon and Ehud Yatom, who were moved down to the fourth tenth of the list, and Keren Barak, who was moved from 40 to 32.
It sounds to me like Feiglin, and at least Ratzon and Yatom are affected, perhaps HaEtzni as well.
It seems to me like Sheetrit and Assulin are unaffected if my conceptual understanding is correct. The question now is, what do these shenanigans do visa-vi Uzi Dayan, Tal Brody, etc. all of the other pretty-faced leftist phonies that Bibi tried to load up the list with?
Meanwhile, Bibi, thinking that he has rid himself of Moshe Feiglin,
announces to the media;
Netanyahu: I’ll Continue Talks with PA, by Maayana Miskin (Israel National New)
Bibi Tells EU He Will Pursue Peace, by Herb Keinon (Jerusalem Post)
Excerpt;
“Netanyahu: We intend to interlace rapid economic development for the Palestinians with peace making.”
And Benny Begin Supports Negotiations with Syria.
How much more demeaning and belittlement does Moshe, do we have to subject ourselves to by way of the Likud party and soo-called Israeli-style “justice?” (i.e. complete miscarriage of justice)
I hear Moshe saying that winning by way of the “court” rather than the voters is not winning. But Bibi Netanyahu and his stacked Likud court of yes-men have delegitimized the primaries making them into nothing more than Referendum2 — disrespecting, as Sharon did, the will of the people — the Likud voters. What! We stood waiting for hours over their computer snafus for our votes to be disrespected?
The flip-side though is something that Reuven Goldman a few people said in Shul tonight about the significance of #36 — Lamed Vov Tzadikkim. If Feiglin is deemed in Shemayim as one, than Likud will at least win enough seats to see him seated regardless of what further stinking, dirt tricks Bibi out of his hat on election night in effort to deprive Moshe.
In this author’s humble opinion, if Bibi next goes after the top of the ticket, where at least 8 of the first 19 are Likud rebels plus Begin and Tzipi Hotobeli, then Moshe should sue to throw the entire primary out the window. MB