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Feb 5, 2012

Should The Likud Return to Two Sides Of The Jordan?

An interesting result of Moshe Feiglin's running in the Likud elections over the past ten years or so is the highlighting the change the Likud has undergone form its own charter. The Likud today is nothing like that described in its charter, and probably would not be recognizable to the founders. That is not bad - it is fairly natural. Political parties should not be wishy washy changing their platforms whenever the direction of the wind changes, but they do need to adjust to changing realities.

Feiglin has highlighted some of those changes from the Likud charter. he even uses that in his own defense saying that none of his platforms are any different than anything written in the Likud platform accepted by every member of the Likud.

Ynet spoke with some of the new Likud Central Committee members who were recently elected. They chose to speak with some who were pushed by Moshe Feiglin and come form the "settlements". One of the interesting comments was from Itai Harel, one of the founders of Migron, who said that the Likud should continue in the way of the heads of the BEITAR movement. The Likud under the platform of Zeev Jabotinsky of "Two Sides of The Jordan - This is ours and so is that" - is definitely appropriate for me. We just have to make sure that tha party leadership goes in that way.

"Two sides of the Jordan" is a song written by Zeev Jabotinsky

MK Tzippi Hotovely responded to Harel's push to going back to the two sides of the Jordan. Hotovely said, "Prior to the Likud returning to the policy of "Two sides of the Jordan", I would be happy to see the Likud go back first to the policy of "from the Jordan to the sea" - one state complete and continuous.

Hotovely's response is reminiscent of the Talmudic dictum of "Tafasta Meruba Lo Tafasta" - dont try to grab too much.

1 comment:

  1. Hotovely's response is reminiscent of the Talmudic dictum of "Tafasta Meruba Lo Tafasta" - dont try to grab too much.

    On the other hand, when you start out saying "half is mine" and the other guy starts out saying "it's all mine" you know what you get.

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