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| By Israel Insider staff and partners January 24, 2005 |
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As populist leader Moshe Feiglin and his powerful Manhigut Yehudit [Jewish Leadership] faction grows in strength, Sharon supporter Arik Barami, Likud Director-General, announced Monday that he intends to petition the party's internal court to expel them.
With the recent ruling of a Supreme Court justice that Feiglin can run for a Knesset seat, despite his conviction for "sedition" as a result of his leading massive non-violent protests against the Oslo era agreements, Sharon supporters evidently feel compelled to try to eliminate the threat in the same way the government dealing with Gaza residents: expulsion backed by politicized courts and "authorities."
The ostensible reason is a manifesto, written by the movements' members and distributed in thousands of copies, saying that only nonviolent civil disobedience and refusal can stop Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan.
Barami claims that refusal to obey orders and civil disobedience are criminal offenses, and calling for them violates the Likud's decisions.
In the manifesto, Feiglin writes that "military refusal and disobedience in response to the expulsion of Jews will not lead to the destruction of the army. It will build it up as a moral army and strengthen the basis for its existence."
He argues says that the country is being subjected to a tyrannical, undemocratic process which is leading the nation to a terrible disaster. "We are talking about an increase of the damages caused by the Oslo process, an indescribable crime against entire communities, tearing the nation to shreds and undermining the very basis for the existence of the state...."
"Conscientious soldiers who hold G-D in their hearts, and will refuse to take part in any act of evacuation or assist it, will save thousands of Israelis from the death march which started in Oslo and is now gaining in speed," said Feiglin.
Ronen Zafrir, veteran of the elite Sayeret Matkal unit, compares the disengagement bill to the Nuremberg Laws. "Sharon's regime is no longer legitimate. Only mass disobedience of hundreds of thousands will return the state to a track of a parliamentary democracy and a sane regime. As during the peaceful revolutions of Eastern Europe, the moment soldiers refused to shoot at demonstrators, and when protesters put flowers in the barrels of troops' guns, the dictatorships understood they had to go," Zafrir said.
The Chairman of the Jewish Leadership group, Michael Fuah, states in the manifesto that the difficulty in the battle against the disengagement plan is the knowledge that "there is a left-wing public that is interested in a civil war. This public does not see Gush Katif settlers as their brethren, but rather an enemy... the extreme left is preparing its provocation, in which he will blame the right wing for firing the first shot," Fuah writes, adding that "a civil war will not take place if brothers will not fight one another, if fraternity will overcome blind obedience."
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