When asked in an interview with Israel Hayom and i24NEWS on Monday regarding Prime Minister Netanyahu’s position that there was no need to update the defense minister and the chief of staff before he gave permission to Germany to sell submarines to Egypt, Zehut party chairman Moshe Feiglin responded that Netanyahu “is not a corrupt person, even though I dislike his lifestyle.”
Feiglin made it clear that he “naturally” belongs to the right, but was not willing to promise that he would not sit in a government headed by the Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz. That’s because he claims that in the past it was the right that turned its back on the integrity of Eretz Israel.
“Even though my spirit belongs in the national camp, and I will feel more comfortable with my friends in the Likud and the right-wing parties, in the end we must ask, is the right less dangerous to Jerusalem and the Land of Israel than the Left?” Feiglin said.
“Recent history teaches us that the answer is apparently no,” Feiglin, whom polls this week already give seven seats in the next Knesset, surprised his interviewers.
He said he would decide on his preference only after he compares and examines which coalition would better advance his platform.
“The place where I feel that I can defend Jerusalem, protect the country and give Israelis a free economy and autonomous education – there is where I will situate myself, even if it will be a less convenient place for me,” Feiglin explained, adding, “Of course I’ll be more comfortable sitting in my comfort zone on the right, but it all depends on what both sides will offer.”
He then argued that both sides, after all is said and done, are committed “to continue the Oslo process.”
In his party’s platform, Feiglin argues about the Oslo Accords that “today, after twenty years of a ‘diplomatic process’ … we recognize them, but they do not recognize us, and the world does not require them to do so. In other words, international pressure is exacerbated by the diplomatic process and cannot be used as an excuse to engage in it.
For the English version of Zehut’s peace plan click here.