“We cannot wait another generation to bring Zehut’s philosophy,” says party chairman.
The chairman of the Zehut party, former Knesset member Moshe Feiglin, discussed on Thursday the possibility of running for the Knesset in a technical bloc with other right-wing parties.
“We cannot wait another generation to bring Zehut’s philosophy. The entire world already understands the idea of ??the free market, the idea of ??abundance, we have to bring it to Israel and we must bring it with force,” Feiglin said in a live broadcast on his Facebook page.
Feiglin added that in the last few days he was approached by parties that offered him reserved spots on their Knesset list, but rejected the offers. “I have been receiving very significant offers from all kinds of parties, receiving proposals that mean that my spot and perhaps the spot of another candidate from Zehut in the next Knesset is guaranteed.”
“There is only one problem with these proposals: We will be in the next Knesset without the message of Zehut, because there is no meaning to all the right and accurate things that Zehut says if there is no political force behind them. And therefore, me sitting in the Knesset in this way would have no meaning. I was already in the Likud and could have been in the current Knesset. The moment I realized that my message could not exist there, I left the Likud,” he continued.
Feiglin stressed that he would not enter the next Knesset without the ability to implement the platform of his party. “We will form connections, we said exactly with whom we can connect that intensifies this synergy, which strengthens the message of Zehut, which makes it possible to implement it, and we said with whom it is impossible. And it will not be any other way. We will insist on that.”
The whole ” mahane leumi ” behaves as a bunch of ” prima donna ” or rich spoiled kid . Likud still thinks it is the only possible vote if s.o wants to avoid the left , but soon with Bibi’s wings clipped by Mandelbilt , Likud will feel the lack of its natural leader . Liberman plays the fixer , but he will only brings the left into power for the fake motive of the haredi enlistment . Shaked is alone since Sara hates her . Bennet has proved several times is not mature for a big job , his list went from 13 to 8 then to zero mandates ; impressive for a genius …The united right is nothing without Bibi . Feiglin is really way too an original , Ayn Rand, useful when one votes in Luxemburg , Austria , Switzerland but in Israel ? The social gap , the corruption , the State disposal of the citizen’s productive life by organized scarcity of buildings lands , the judicial dominance of the same old ” left ” patronizing ideology , the school cursus debasement ….The likud still holds a small majority but at the fringes the ” mahane leumi ” is crumbling .
So Feiglin has a catch 22 he can and he has a reality check. If he connects with the New Right & United Right Parties he and maybe one other Zehut candidate will sit in the next Knesset likely closer to the bottom of the joint right list.
He feels he will have no influence this way for his Libertarian economic beliefs.
If he does not join up he will not be in Knesset and certainly have zero influence.
Since his views on sovereignty are much closer or the same as others in the right wing parties his being in the Knesset and maybe adding 2 seats or so to the total of the right wing joint party would be of benefit. He still as a Knesset member could lobby or speak about libertarian economic benefits for Israel and the free market. It seems he wants this part of the joint right parties platform and that is not likely.
Seems to me if he is practical he will join up with the other right parties. All or nothing in politics amounts to nothing unless you have much greateer influence than he has. Question about Feiglin always has been can he be pragmatic or just another politician making waves that splash back on him.
I hope he joins. If he does not, it is one more step closer to a unity government of Likud & Blue/White + Yisrael Betenyu. Then the applying Israeli Civil Law to Judea/Samaria as Feiglin believes gets further from reality. So I truly hope he decides for the greater good to be pragmatic.
And so Moshe will sit out the next election, no one will hear his message and nothing will happen?