By Moshe Feiglin
September 20, 2006
Everybody is talking about a commission of inquiry to investigate Israel's failure in the second Lebanon war. The pivotal question is not which people must be dismissed, but who -- and what -- must replace them. Manhigut Yehudit presents the direction in which it intends to lead Israel:
Education
The first hour of every school day will be dedicated to Jewish identity.
- The majority of children in the State of Israel today cannot complete the sentence that begins, Shema Yisrael? ("Hear O' Israel...").
- Most of the soldiers in the Israeli army had never visited Jerusalem before they were conscripted.
The products of the Israeli educational system lack basic knowledge of Jewish history, Bible and the Land of Israel. Without Jewish education there is no Jewish identity, no past and no future.
Family
The number of "single parent families" in Israel has climbed by 500% in the past decade. This is a social landslide! Sometimes parents are forced to raise their children alone -- and they do it well ? but this is not the optimal situation. Ideally, a child needs both his mother and his father. This is the healthy foundation from which a person can set out on his adult life, the cornerstone that builds society and the nation.
To prevent the breakdown of the family unit and the crumbling of society, the State should provide benefits to young couples and to mothers who prefer to raise their children at home. If there is no family, there is no society. If there is no society, there is no State.
Security
Our enemies must know that if they attack us, they will lose their territory -- forever.
When Israel conquered the Golan Heights in the Six Day War, the 100,000 Syrian citizens who had lived there were forced to return to Syria. Since then, the Golan Heights has been sovereign Israeli territory -- much safer than most places in Israel. This is the model that Israel should adopt for any territory that it conquers. When our enemies are convinced that there will be real consequences for attacking us, then they will be convinced to live with us in peace. We must believe that this Land belongs to us (as it truly does) -- and only to us.
Without territory there is no security and without security there is no State.
Supreme Court
Israel's judges must be chosen by the representatives of the people, must reflect the nation's values, and must only rule on laws and not write them.
Currently, Supreme Court judges choose their own successors. Alienated from the values of our nation, these Supreme Court judges represent the "enlightened" ideals of the small, ?disengaged? Leftist elite.
It is the Supreme Court that supports and promotes the self-destructive Leftist agenda from which this country suffers. A judge is supposed to guard his nation's values. But today, Israel is being steered away from those values -- with the "enlightened" judges at the helm.
This platform aims to bring the Jewish People back to itself. For without a past, a people has no future.
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