[Netanyahu’s actions have left him exposed to attacks from the right. Bennett is taking dead aim and landing blow after blow. Ted Belman]
Habayit Hayehudi chairman says government needs to make a switch in its counter-terrorism policy and seek decisive blows rather than containment
Habayit Hayehudi Chairman Naftali Bennett said Sunday that all political parties, including the Likud-Beiteinu, should sign a paper “pledging never to evict Jews from their homes.”
Speaking to students in Kiryat Ono, Bennett was asked whether he was willing to sign a paper saying he will evacuate Jewish settlements if given such orders and replied, “I never operate under pressure or under threats.”
Bennett criticized the Netanyahu government’s security policy. “We need to make the switch from resigning with terror – a policy that saw the south under a rocket barrage. It is a weak and dangerous policy because it encourages terror.
“The IDF cannot lose one campaign after the other. The IDF needs to make decisive blows and it can. We have the capacity to defeat terror.”
Addressing claims that Israel cannot disregard international pressure, he said, “You’re the ones living in a bubble, you’re the ones who think the world revolves around Israel. You’re delusional. It indicates a lack of understanding of the world. It’s a provincial point of view.
“There will never be a Palestinian state between Jordan and the Mediterranean. No one will support my political plan outside Israel but no one outside Israel recognizes Katzrin, Ramot or Gilo, but we do and we’ve exercised sovereignty there.”
The Habayit Hayehudi chairman also commented on the harsh criticism leveled by former Shin Bet Chief Yuval Diskin at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Leadership is not just being a politician but setting an example,” he said. “A politician needs to invest 10% in himself and 90% in his country. The problem is when a politician invests 90% or 100% in his survival and dignity. There are such politicians I’m afraid.”
Nevertheless he defended Netanyahu and remarked, “His heart is in the right place. The challenge is putting strong people, people of virtue next to him. The fact that Ehud Barak worked alongside him in the past four years caused considerable damage to Israel.”
@ Michael Dar:
FIFY
@ steven l:
There are indeed powerful and vile forces outside Israel (and their Jewish agents in Israel self) who definitely do not want Israel, not only to suceed but even to survive. I wrote a piece 15 years ago in French in which I maintained, argued and explained why the world never really wanted a state for the Jews in the first place. That the world later actually only waited for the appropriate political opportunity to correct what it always considered being a historic mistake. Lately it has even become fashionable, the norm for the international community to consider such an outrageous outcome. It’s high time for Israel to replace the silk gloves by boxing gloves and start throwing political and legal punches.
Although I lean towards Bennett, He may or may not realize that powerful forces outside IL do/may not want Jews to succeed.
is there anyone who can publish an interactive map of British citizens who own land in Turkish-occupied Cyprus?
that is the best, and only, actual example of the failure of the idea that a United Nations could stop war, which was the idea at the time, and that is why we never really end wars, but freeze them or ignore them if they are contained inside a nation’s ‘internationally recognized boundaries’ (perhaps the most damaging oxymoron of history).
That is the dilemma of “international pressure”: the UN has failed it’s original mission. But still stops wars, thus always prolonging the conflict.
2014 is the 60th anniversary of the Korean ceasefire with the UN Force, commanded by the USA. It’s still a ceasefire!