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MainAll NewsInside Israel'I brought down the government, no one should be lecturing me' Exclusive interview: 'I brought down the government, no one should be lecturing me' Likud MK attacks Jewish Home party, justifies voting against Regulation Law. Contact Editor Hezki Baruch, 08/02/17 12:40 Share MK Benny BeginMK Benny BeginYonatan Sindel, Flash 90 In an exclusive interview with Arutz Sheva, MK Ze'ev Binyamin "Benny" Begin (Likud) slammed the Jewish Home party for the Regulation law and and justified his vote against it, saying he'd "already brought down the government after it gave away Israeli land." "This coalition is all about threats...

MK-elect Moshe Feiglin (Likud) has come out against the attempt by Minister Benny Begin (Likud) to pass a highly contested pro-Bedouin decision in the cabinet session Sunday. "Former Minister Benny Begin does not respect the democratic decision that he will not be a minister," accused Feiglin, "and in a desperate last-minute move he is trying to carry out a grab, and get the cabinet to adopt a decision in the serious matter of Bedouin settlement in the Negev." "In his proposal, Begin abandons the Jewish settlement enterprise in the Negev and proves that the rule of law and court decisions...

Tzipi Livni, who chairs the Hatnua party, slammed on Wednesday what she termed "the extremists" in her former party, the Likud. Livni, who visited a bar in Tel Aviv, warned that a coalition between these Likud extremists and the Jewish Home would be a threat to Israel. "Extremists are taking over our lives and if we do not stop them today - we'll end up in a situation that is dangerous for Israel," Livni said. "These extremists are now in the Likud in the form of (Moshe) Feiglin, (Tzipi) Hotovely, (Yariv) Levin and others - they are in the same...

The government of Israel does not have a plan for disengaging from the Gaza Strip. The question being placed before Likud party members is whether or not Jewish settlement should be evacuated in the face of pressure from terrorism. That’s all. The assumption of many people in Israel that in another eighteen months, we will be able to send Gaza to hell (“Get them out of my sight”, “Let them stew in their own juice”) is similar to the hope that one leader of the Labor Party and Meretz expressed in 1993, “Let Gaza drown in the sea”. However, according...

"They're soft like pizza, and they fall like dominoes." So said former Cabinet Minister Benny Begin on national television last night, referring to the senior Likud members who have recently jumped on the disengagement bandwagon. Begin, who resigned from the Netanyahu government in January 1997 over the Hevron-withdrawal agreement, termed the current disengagement/withdrawal plan under consideration a "cave-in-to-terrorism plan." Prime Minister Sharon has proposed a unilateral disengagement from Gaza, under which Israel is to withdraw its forces and evacuate its towns and 8,000 residents by the end of 2005. This is to be done with no coordination with the Palestinian...

Bennie Begin appeared on Nissim Mishal's interview program on Israel Television Channel Two this evening to attack the "disengagement plan" as a sham. "It isn't disengagement," Begin argued, noting that under the plan Israel will continue to be involved with the Gaza Strip, "it is only a settlement uprooting plan. And uprooting settlements will only encourage the terrorists to continue in their efforts." Begin warned that the withdrawal would only bring more terror and criticized the attempts of some to paint a rosy picture. Then Nissim Mishal threw Begin the pitch: "But Bennie Begin, there are so many former prime...