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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and his wife Sara seen boarding the plane to New York for an official state visit to the US, September 20, 2016.

When a famous rabbi joins the agenda dictated by Netanyahu nemesis Eldad Yaniv, he doesn’t turn himself into a soldier in the service of morality. Just the opposite. He and those who follow him turn themselves into soldiers in the service of the disgusting manipulations of the most filthy, despicable creatures in our midst.

This same rabbi supported executing orders to drive the residents of Gush Katif from their homes. In other words, he indirectly enabled the moral abomination that no corruption can equal. In my eyes, this rabbi’s moral compass is completely off course.

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Rightist Yoaz Hendel is right when he talks about the danger of corruption, but he is mixing the important with the unimportant. Corruption and dishonesty have always been here. They are always serious problems, they must always be fought – and I did so without fear when I was an MK.

It is good that the corruption in Netanyahu’s backyard is being investigated and it is good that the public doesn’t like it. However, the level of corruption is currently much lower than it was in the days of Sharon, Barak, and Peres. I do not remember demonstrations against corruption then, featuring rabbis, journalist, and MKs.

In Israel, corruption is a geographical matter. When it is in the Right’s territory, it is a national agenda. When it is in the Left’s, the offenders are pampered.

Netanyahu’s personal conduct is objectionable. He has to go, but not because of corruption. He has to go because his strategy of “Let’s just make it to twelve o’ clock tonight and we’ll see what happens tomorrow” – in other words, the total lack of any strategy other than personal survival – has turned the man into a strategic catastrophe for Israel. The man who explained years ago that his main objective was neutralizing the Iranian nuclear threat passed the responsibility for that to Obama – and “destroyed” the Iranian nuclear reactor with his speeches. Netanyahu is responsible for the fact that not only will Iran have nuclear weapons, but they will be sitting on our border, a short distance from Tel Aviv.

Netanyahu is the man who removed the metal detectors so the Arabs could return to the Temple Mount. He is the man who prevented the move of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem (no – it has not yet been moved) and Pence’s speech at the Western Wall (did you really it was Rabbi Rabinowitz’s fault?). He is also the man who neutralized any effective bill limiting the power of the High Court. He is a man with no vision – and he must go home.

When a nation has no vision, it becomes corrupt. If the demonstrations against Netanyahu will ultimately depose him, I will not be sorry. But I cannot lie to myself and participate in them.

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Moshe Feiglin is the former Deputy Speaker of the Knesset. He heads the Zehut Party. He is the founder of Manhigut Yehudit and Zo Artzeinu and the author of two books: "Where There Are No Men" and "War of Dreams." Feiglin served in the IDF as an officer in Combat Engineering and is a veteran of the Lebanon War. He lives in Ginot Shomron with his family.