Many people are angry at the Likud and Prime Minister Netanyahu. It may be difficult for you to integrate this, but I am not angry at all. On the contrary: I love my new Likud friends and I highly regard Netanyahu and his family.
I am not angry at PM Netanyahu.
True, he changed the rules again in the middle of the game.
True, he is not really democratic.
True, he executed a perfectly planned political take-down against me.
True, he also had the observers removed from the ballot counting and who knows what went on there afterwards…
But I am really not angry at Netanyahu.
This fetus, Manhigut Yehudit, which is the only political hope for Israel, is already in its tenth month. Dr. Netanyahu simply induced the labor.
He did it professionally and effectively and I send him my best wishes. I truly do.
Now, the young child will grow independently and with G-d’s help, sooner than we may think, will lead our nation to its destiny.
Let us quickly review the history of this special group:
It all began with the Oslo Accords. You knew exactly where Netanyahu’s hug for Arafat, which turned all of us – Right and Left – into robbers in our own Land, would lead. That hug gave our enemies the most important weapon of all: Justice.
Zo Artzeinu embarked on a determined struggle against the Oslo catastrophe, exemplifying the meaning of individual liberty, drawing the borders of obedience and highlighting the fact that the State belongs to the People and not vice versa.
In the election of 1996 we went all out for Binyamin Netanyahu and against all odds, he won the premiership from Shimon Peres. But it didn’t take long for Netanyahu to hug Arafat, giving the Oslo Accords the legitimacy of the National Camp.
The entire country, both Right and Left, began to talk the Oslo talk.
The Right also got used to the Oslo paradigm, paying lip service to our ideals with the proposal to annex the territory in Area C in 40 years from now…
The horrifying result was not far behind.
Suicide bombings in all of Israel’s cities.
Buses blowing up.
Tractors running over people and cars.
Massacre in a synagogue.
And worst of all, the loss of the legitimacy for the existence of our State, which came on the heels of the loss of justice.
The building freeze in Judea and Samaria sent the price of housing on an upward trajectory and the sum expense of security and containment of the Oslo reality has reached one trillion shekels.
Nevertheless, until this very day, despite the fact that everyone understands that Oslo was a horrible mistake, all the parties of the National Camp – except for the Zo Artzeinu group – have remained captive to the language and erroneous assumptions of Oslo.
Everybody talks about:
‘The Palestinian nation’,
Two states,
Terrorist release,
And they have for all practical purposes surrendered the Temple Mount and the heart of Jerusalem.
Yes, both the Likud and the Jewish Home opposed the bill that would have required the agreement of 80 MKs in order to conduct negotiations on Jerusalem. “We are already conducting those negotiations,” Tzippy Livni admitted from the Knesset podium.
Only one MK from the Coalition voted in favor of the bill: the same MK that came from within this group and did not become a servant to the Oslo mentality. Only you have remained outside the servitude. Only you have remained free in order to once again lead our Nation to its destiny!
After the Likud under Netanyahu’s leadership adopted Arafat and the Oslo Accords, we understood that the solution for the crisis was not merely to exchange a leftist government with a rightist government. Israel needs leadership with deeper foundations than the superficial differentiation between Right and Left. Am Yisrael needs faith-based leadership.