Posted on 05/14/2002 7:27:31 AM PDT by Israel Insider
Both Sharon and Netanyahu lost at the Likud meeting, but the Jewish People and their land came out as winners.
By Moshe Feiglin May 14, 2002
What actually took place Sunday night in the Likud Center? A superficial glance at the headlines in the papers Monday morning gives the impression that the issue was a contest between the old knight, Sharon and the young knight, Netanyahu, in which Netanyahu won the day. This is the way the media work - they lack depth, and go for dramas of this kind. But what happened yesterday in the Likud Center was totally different. What we saw were the first buds of deep processes, seeds first planted by the Jewish Leadership movement six years ago in the consciousness of the believing public, seeds that developed into young seedlings that were planted in the political system two years ago. Those who see the overall picture, are familiar with the development of the situation, and understand the processes in depth, also understand that Netanyahu's victory yesterday was for his ego only. Netanyahu was drawn into the move, that was initiated by Jewish Leadership and the members faithful to Eretz Israel in the Likud, because he had no choice: He could not adopt a stance diametrically opposite to the Rightist line he has been pushing in hundreds of interviews that he has given recently. However the precedent has been created that things said here must also be maintained there, because there are people who demand this.
Netanyahu wasn't the winner yesterday, nor, obviously, was Sharon. Fundamentally both of them lost. And who won? The winner yesterday was the Jewish people that once again confirmed its loyalty to its country and its values and proved that it has the capability and desire to fight for this loyalty. Since the aims of the two leaders who fought one another yesterday in the Likud Center are not synchronized with the basic objective of the Jewish people, then the process in which the Jewish people returns to itself will inevitably cause the fall of both of them.
The Likud and its Center are a micro-cosmos of the Jewish people, where you can find the traditional Israeli who does not deny his identity and loves his homeland; the middle class that supports the economy; all the ethnic groups; secular, and religious Jews. There, in the Likud, you can find the Jewish people.
The victory of the Jewish people yesterday takes two forms:
The first and immediate one is the tactical achievement - halting the train of the Palestinian state. It appears that when the struggle is waged in the right battlefield it is possible to block moves that seem irreversible, and return the genie to the bottle. It appears that a correct ideological analysis, that is, understanding Israel's need for Jewish leadership, leads inevitably to the micro-cosmos through which the National Camp leads the country. In this way a group of people, although lacking great political experience, arrived at the correct tactical solution.
However, the Jewish people's victory was much greater because of the tactical problem caused yesterday to Ariel Sharon on his path towards the establishment of a Palestinian state. For the first time since the first Camp David conference in 1978 (Begin-Sadat), the ideological background, that which will decide the future of the Jewish people and Eretz Israel, has returned from the edges to the center (in every sense of the word). A few weeks ago it seemed that a Palestinian state was a foregone conclusion. The protests voiced against this (if any) came from the Rightist and religious fringes, that no one treated seriously. It now appears that this struggle, instead of dying down, burst out with tremendous energy… in the center of the political map, in the heart of the Israeli governing party.
This is no longer just a tactical victory, but a quiet revolution, a strategic revolution. It is now obvious to everyone that the basic assumptions of the Jewish Leadership movement are correct. President Bush displayed no interest yesterday in the doings of the leaders of the minority parties, but in those of members of the Likud Center. They interested him for one simple reason - in contrast to the others, they are playing in the real court, that of the national leadership, where activities are related to reality.
Now let's make a simple calculation: If it is possible to influence matters in such a way and advance issues within the Likud, even before the thousands of new members of the Likud associated with the Jewish Leadership movement have expressed their views in the primaries, even before we have elected a single new member of the Center representing the movement, just imagine what it will be possible to do when hundreds of the members of the Center will belong to the Jewish Leadership movement, when many of the Likud MKs will be representatives of the movement, and when, with G-d's help, a Jewish Leadership person stands at the head of the governing party of the National Camp.
Views expressed by the author do not necessarily reflect those of israelinsider.
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