Posted on 01/09/2013 2:34:24 PM PST by Eleutheria5
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These are very interesting elections. We all know who the next prime minister will be. The question is what kind of government he will form, will it be left or right? Will it be a national Jewish Zionist coalition with us as a major party or will it be a leftist one? We have to be strong enough to make the decision to form a nationalistic coalition the only feasible one.
Q. What about those who say you are extremists?
Bennett: Quite the opposite. We are the real "centrists"– loving our heritage is centrist, loving the Land of Israel is centrist, loving the Jewish People is centrist – that is what most Israelis feel, but there were those who made them feel ashamed to say so out loud. We are getting them to speak up.
We are the real centrist party because Israel is more Jewish than it has ever been.
If you think it is insane to hand over land to our enemies, you are not extremist, you are centrist.
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Q. To what do you attribute your meteoric rise?
Bennett: It is not because of me, it is the natural outpouring of what Israelis feel in their hearts and needed an opportunity to be able to express. We are back to the basics and it is like a volcano erupting.
In fact, we are witnessing a "Jewish Spring" that is sweeping Israel, and that's why secular and religious Israelis are identifying with us and voting for us. People who believe the existence of the Jewish state is vital for Am Yisrael and love the state and the IDF are our supporters.. They might not wear a yarmulke, but perhaps they say Kiddush, light Shabbat candles, perhaps they put on tefillin.
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I love him. Will this last? Something similar happened a few years ago with another gazillionaire who said the right things and he turned out to be...the wrong thing. A megalomaniac who loved himself and his power more than he loved Israel. Bennett seems like the real deal. Is he? Has the time finally come?
So far he’s got my vote, provided he doesn’t screw up royally during the next 13 days.
What impact will Bennett’s rise have on the recent election of Moshe Feiglin as a Likud MK?
Feiglin wasn’t elected. He was nominated as #14 on the Likud party list. Most likely he will be elected, because Likud is still a very strong party. But Bibi will have a hard time avoiding including Bayit Yehudi in his government if under Bennett they get 15 to 20 seats. That means that the Right will predominate, and he won’t be able to get a leftist henchman like Ehud Barak to go around willy nilly tearing down houses in Judah and Samaria, or ignoring shepherds who are being driven to ruin by thieving Bedouins. It will be that much harder for Obama to push us around. Feiglin will not be alone in the Likud. He’ll have allies in Bayit Yehudi, and together they’ll fight the good fight. Of course, these are politicians, so who knows what their price really is.
We are the real "centrists" -- loving our heritage is centrist, loving the Land of Israel is centrist, loving the Jewish People is centrist -- that is what most Israelis feel, but there were those who made them feel ashamed to say so out loud. We are getting them to speak up. We are the real centrist party because Israel is more Jewish than it has ever been. If you think it is insane to hand over land to our enemies, you are not extremist, you are centrist.
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