From that moment and until this very day, we are careful to remain focused on our only goal:
Faith based leadership for Israel.
We then embarked on a long process of clarification.
How is a modern Jewish liberty-state conducted?
Economy? Education? Security? Health? Foreign Affairs?
How does it relate to the convert, to the orphan, to the widow, to the elderly?
Thousands of articles and a number of books were written.
We also searched for ways to actualize the idea.
At the beginning, the Likud, which had enslaved itself to Oslo, did not occur to us at all. But the Likud had a very positive core of nationalism open to every Israeli. No less important, the Likud was the ruling tool of the National Camp. Only from within it was it possible to develop the leadership mentality of the faith-based public.
Today, after 15 years, that leadership mentality is alive and kicking. On the other side of the coin, there are no other ruling parties of other Camps.
Let us not forget: Only one Knesset mandate for Lapid instead of Likud in the previous elections would have made him the prime minister. Tomorrow, we may find Kachlon in that illustrious position.
The Likud has become an aging party; the average age of its members is above 60. Like the other parties, it is completely based on the side of the problem. It does not have the mental agility to truly contain the necessary change and to go over to the side of the solution that exists within it.
That is why it fights us incessantly.
We invested great effort to belong.
Always, despite all the dirty tricks and lost votes we smiled, remained loyal and continued.
There is not and was not anybody more loyal than we were to the Likud.
But like a battered wife, one-sided loyalty is not fidelity; it is dependence.
We do not feel battered or dependent.
We are liberated!
When I entered the Knesset, it seemed for a moment that perhaps, despite all that had transpired, we could realize our ultimate goal from within the Likud.
Israel began to be exposed to the Jewish liberty alternative upon all its aspects.
Initially, it didn’t understand what that Right was doing in the pubs of the Left.
How could it be that Feiglin, without surrendering his principles even one millimeter, and while waging a resolute struggle for those principles, could work with Meretz MK Tamar Zandberg, be friends with Dov Hanin and even with some of the Arab MKs whose names, for the sake of their security, I will not mention?
Suddenly they understood that we have a well-thought-out plan, broad and all-inclusive; a plan that includes everyone and affords identity, liberty and meaning to every Israeli.
Identity, liberty and meaning.
Over the last year, however, I began to feel that the system as a whole and the Likud in particular was learning to contain me and my message and simply continue onward. I began to feel that despite our vision, I was in danger of becoming part of the problem instead of the alternative and the solution.
Dear Friends,
I must relate to the Temple Mount.
The entire idea of liberty, making G-d – and not humans – King, the entire destiny of our Nation, the physical and metaphysical place from which we draw meaning and the robustness of our lives – is the royal palace, the holy Temple Mount.
Do you know who really ejected Tzippy Hotobeli and myself from the Knesset?
It is not Netanyahu. It is a terrorist named Hijazi. His name, by the way, testifies to the place from where his family came: Saudi Arabia.