Granted, the rest of the “leaders” are cowards. But Bibi is one, too. Destroying long-established hitnahaluyot (”settlements”) just because somebody with a kefiya shows up and claims it’s his and the Begatz (High Court) is stupid enough to simply take his word without any investigation, is worse than cowardice. It will lead us to civil war, and then the Arabs will simply come in and take whatever they want and murder everyone. The American Revolution was fought at least in part over property rights. The Jewish revolution against the Mandate was fought over the right to immigrate during a time of massive persecution and settle the land. Two of those three factors are being assaulted here, not by Islamists or Arabs, but by the Israeli government, and Bibi’s fine with that. There are several real leaders who would make a good replacement.
From “Geert Wilders IFA Friends” ...
‘Peace Now’ [group] Upset that Beit El [settlement] will Grow
http://www.facebook.com/GW.IFA/posts/113349565472838
GWIFA: Once again, we see the need for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form one of the largest ruling government coalitions in Israeli history by combining Likud and Kadima in the same coalition. It was a stroke of genius by Netanyahu. Now the ‘radicals’ on the left and on the right - can no longer threaten to cause the “government to fall” ... because someone is going to pull out of the government coalition.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has once again shown his political prowess by governing for the majority of the Israelis and not governing “for the radical factions” ...
Whether they’re on the radical left or the radical right - they’re BOTH aiming shots at Netanyahu ... :-)
Quote from the article ...
Hardline nationalist MKs were upset with the Knesset vote Wednesday against the Regulation Law, but leftists were not happy with the prime minister’s promises to build 300 more homes in Beit El.
MK Aryeh Eldad (National Union) said angrily: “The Likud’s true nature has once yet been exposed. It talks loudly about the settlement enterprise but at the same time saws at its foundations.”
“The Likud ministers have turned out to be cowards who prefer to run away or surrender in the face of the prime minister’s threat to fire them, rather than stand behind their commitments and principles,” he accused.
Deputy Knesset Speaker MK Danny Danon (Likud) said: “The state of Israel is beginning to pay the price of the wedding with Kadima. The nation of Israel chose Likud, the nation of Israel voted for the national camp’s program. It did not elect Barak or vote for dismantling communities.”
“Peace Now and the radical left are advancing their radical agendas through court motions instead of persuading the public in the polling booth,” he added.
Peace Now itself, however, was not happy at all with the commitment by Netanyahu to build 300 more homes in Beit El, and was quick to start an online petition calling on him to rescind what they called “a collective punishment” that he has meted out against Israel’s citizens.
“We understand the prime minister’s wish to punish the Peace Now movement to in order to ‘mark the guilty’ and mollify the settler leadership, but collective punishment that will cost the citizens of Israel hundreds of millions of shekels is not fair, not right and unacceptable,” the movement’s petition stated, as if those 300 families would not need homes no matter where they lived.