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What’s wrong with rightist Likud?
Uri Orbach
Published: 13.12.08, 15:12
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1. I disagree with the author
Ron ,   Tel Aviv   (12.13.08)
The Bibi and his people will do what is good for Bibi and nobody else. Begin, Yaalon means ZERO in Likud. These two are nothing. People see this. Bibi should stay in opposition where he will be able fight Livni and crooks in Kadima. Bibi is not PM material - he is the dealer, small Sharonchick.
2. LEFT has made Israel's citizens demorilized, unempowered, &
Jae ,   Lynn US   (12.13.08)
and feeling helpless and hopeless. The left government has: Allowed Hamas Terrorist organization to become the governemt in Gaza. Turned Israel into a traumatic Hamas missile testing grounds; 10,000 missiles traumating civilian families anytime, anywhere , anyplace. hundreds maimed, injured and murdered. Left has allowed Hizbollah terrorists to have FOUR TIMES the # of weapons stockpiled compared to what they had before the war Left allows terrorists to go free but kicks Jews out of their homes and demolishes their homes. The Leftist government and supreme court of Meretz/Labor-Barak & Peretz/ and Kadima- Olmert and Livni and Dichter and Mazuz are kind to the cruel and cruel to the kind. Vote Feiglin, the only Jewish representative in the knesset that cares more about us than any other politican AND will bring Jewish values back to Israel. No one will be forced to be Jewish, God forbid, rather, children will be educated to know the Shema, to know their history, to know their connections to the Land of our mothers and fathers. The Left government has lost a war 2 years ago with lots of demorilization
3. #1
Israel Israeli ,   Tel Aviv   (12.13.08)
You may be right about Netanyahu, but the rest of the top ten includes only two relative "Leftists" Yuval Shteinitz who is acknowledged as being honest and Silvan Shalom who feels he has been betrayed one to many times by Netanyahu. The rest of the top ten are rational and excellent parliamentarians like Saar, Ardan, Rivlin and Kahlon who struggled against Sharon.
4. Rightists might be the real Likud - but not the real Israel
Eric ,   Tel Aviv   (12.13.08)
Those who resist the law and government by acts of violence and resistance are not representative of the real Israel. They should be working with legal methods of fighting their fights - each time they resist the Police or Army carrying out the Government's or Court's rulings they weaken the safety of us all and help Hamas in their goal of "No Jews West of the Jordan". If they are the real voice of Israel, then they would form a party with just those views and would do better than Liberman did in the last election.
5. finally, someone says it like it is!
Randi ,   jerusalem   (12.13.08)
i have been waiting for someone in the media to explain that the rebel was sharon and his people who left Likud. Media analysts who call Likudniks that were against the expulsion and stayed with the party instead of creating a new one are rendering the word "rebel" devoid of all meaning.
6. What Chutzpah! How DARE you say the truth! Kol HaKavod!
Ilan   (12.13.08)
7. Recounting history, yet not saying it when it counted
Ben Temalion ,   Shiloh, MO USA   (12.13.08)
Sharon implemented the Mitzna plan. Ya'alon planned the security . Shalom, Netanyahu et al voted over and over and over and over again for it. They and others were the true rebels against the people who elected Likud to abide by the Likud charter and that of Jewish people. They acted against a further referendum against the geroush that Sharon swore to uphold. Sharon would later treat the PMO as if it was a desk accessory that he was allowed to take when he moved his desk to Kadima. Isn't that a putsch Mr. Ohrbach? Ohrbach didn't call them rebels then though. I don't know why he is trying to make sense now. The Likud court should have kashered the party long before the geroush. Those acting against simply have no business being in the party. But the Likud has no such moral backbone, neither does Ohrbach. This article was the first of his that I have seen that seems to be grasping for truth.
8. #4 Eric
Canadian Jew   (12.14.08)
The word Rightist refers to anyone on the right of the political spectrum, not only settlers and others who violently resist the government. There is a huge section of population that is politically Right-leaning, especially after the policies of the Left have left Israel weak and demoralized. By attributing the word Rightist solely to those on the extreme right of the spectrum, you're letting yourself get duped by Kadima and Labor. Maybe you should take second look at the propaganda you are being fed by the Left.
9. Why not right????
linda   (12.14.08)
We have tried left for many years, gave back Gaza and it didn't work did it? So why not try right? It was Begin(right) who made pease with Egypt. It was right who made pease with Jordan! So, maybe we should try to fix the economy and forget the arabs for a few years. let them come to us and beg for pease. Not the other way around.
10. #8 - you misunderstand
Eric ,   Tel Aviv   (12.14.08)
I do not assume that the right is the same group hijacked by the settlers, protesters in Hebron, or others that resist the government. Rather I want it to be understood that those here in Israel are not represented by the general category called the right and ask that if they represent the general thinking of Israel I want to see them form a party and win more than the center or left parties. Otherwise they need to work in the system, and denounce those who are using their name to promote chaos rather than rule of law.
11. Yes Uri, Why Now? Why Not Then?
Brana Lobel ,   Israel   (12.14.08)
I second poster #7. What is it with this large number of Israelis like you, Uri Orbach, you have a bully pulpit but you seem to have a numbed mind. It was blatantly obviously even to someone from the US two/three years ago what immoral, illegal and worse acts Sharon was doing and very puzzling why no one in the Knesset or elsewhere was doing something about this. How can this country survive if large numbers of people dunk the truth, the facts, and genuine on-the-ground observations? This country must be held together physically. Israel is not an "idea", and not a floating crap game, it is a physical country. In must be held together in spite of Netanyahu. Try thinking faster this time around.
12. Every lasting peace agreement was done by the right
Matityahu ,   Slovenia   (12.15.08)
Leftist policies are failing at all fronts and not just in Israel.
13. 4 Sorry to disapoint you - the real and only Israel is right
Am Israel ,   IS RIGHT!   (12.15.08)
Take a look at who precedes and vote for leftists 1) Alienated Jews in EVERY sense of the word: the antireligious (not just non religious) 2) Alienated Zionists, in EVERY sense of the word, including ethnic cleansers & donors of millions to our sworn enemies. Eternal apologetic scum who wont do a thing without permision from media 3) Non Jews, be they Russian non jews, Muslims and assorted Erev Rav They deserve excommunication! honestly !
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