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Moshe Feiglin is head of the Jewish Leadership faction in the Likud and can be reached via the web site.
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By Moshe Feiglin
October 3, 2006
Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu's support of meetings and negotiations with Abu Mazen displays both his lack of leadership and his lack of political skills.
Abu Mazen's history plainly shows that this man is solely Yasser Arafat with a suit and a razor: he co-authored the PLO's Phased Plan for destroying Israel by taking what it can through negotiations prior to all-out war, he denied the Holocaust, and he financed the Munich Massacre. Since he's become the "Palestinian" leader 4 years ago, he has publicly stated that he will never give up the "Palestinian right of return" which would destroy Israel demographically, he will never disarm any terror groups, and he has stated that he supports murdering Jews if they live outside the 1967 borders of Israel. Additionally, it was reported today that Abu Mazen's group, Fatah, is preparing for a "Lebanon-style" war against Israel.
Abu Mazen is clearly not a man to put any trust in, and to do so is the height of irresponsibility.
On a political level, the Likud lost the previous election because Mr. Netanyahu attempted to take Likud to the political left, which space was already occupied by Kadima and Labor, instead of to the right, where he would have gained votes for the party. By attempting to do the same thing, Mr. Netanyahu is clearly showing that he has no idea of how to lead a political party to an election victory in the current climate.
Netanyahu's presentation of the terrorist Abu Mazen as a moderate is a repeat of his handshake with former Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat. That handshake destroyed the nationalist camp and gave legitimacy to the Oslo process.
Now again, when everyone knows there is no partner and the survival of Israel is at stake, Netanyahu is giving a certificate of kashrut to the enemy.
Mr. Netanyahu, the man who supplied Yasser Arafat with thousands of machine guns even after Arafat's thugs used the guns given them by Yitzhak Rabin to fire upon Israelis, and the man who voted in favor of the Gaza Disengagement only to resign from office in protest of the same Disengagement in a crass political maneuver after the plan could not be stopped anymore, has once again shown us why he is not the alternative leadership that Israel so desperately needs.
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