Anyone considering voting for Yamina needs to be reminded that Shaked and Bennett are a package deal.
Naftali Bennett, not Ayelet Shaked, is chairman of New Right, party bylaws showMaybe people have forgotten how Bennett and Shaked left Jewish Home high and dry with a big debt in order to increase their own power and then "wasted votes" in their failed attempt at leading the New Right in the last election.
Naftali Bennett is the chairman of the New Right party, not Yamina leader Ayelet Shaked, as the two have led the public to believe, Zman Yisrael, the Hebrew sister site of The Times of Israel, revealed on Tuesday.
Formerly the leader of the Jewish Home party, Bennett, along with then-justice minister Shaked, split from the national-religious party in December 2018 to form the New Right, saying their new party seeks to forge a full, equal partnership between the secular and religious sectors.
The two had hoped to pull votes away from both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud and the Union of Right-Wing Parties – a faction comprised of the Jewish Home, the National Union, and the far-right Otzma Yehudit Party – but the maneuver failed and New Right did not pass the 3.25% electoral threshold in the April 9 elections.
Ahead of the second vote this year, set for September 17 after Netanyahu failed to form a coalition, New Right joined forces with Jewish Home and the National Union to form the Yamina alliance and, in an attempt to broaden voter appeal, named Shaked – a controversial but very popular politician – as its leader.
However, a review of the New Right’s party bylaws reveals that Bennett has remained New Right chairman, despite Shaked being publicly presented as its leader throughout the campaign and being placed at No. 1 on Yamina’s Knesset slate. Bennett is New Right’s No. 2, making him No. 4 on Yamina’s merged slate.
As New Right’s chairman, Bennett maintains the authority to split the party from Yamina after the elections, potentially leaving Shaked with no Knesset faction to head.
Maybe people have forgotten, or never knew, that as Education Minister, Naftali Bennett sent Israeli children to a Christian indoctrination center...
Education Ministry Funding Evangelical Program Targeting Israeli Teens
Israel’s education ministry is providing state funding for a Christian evangelical leadership training program in the northern West Bank city of Ariel.Bennett also has some very revealing opinions about Torah Jews who would like to see the State of Israel replaced by the Kingdom of Israel which God has promised to us. I mean that is what Mashiach is coming to do - convert the State of Israel into the Kingdom of Israel. In the New York Times no less!
JH Israel’s website boasts that with its new Israeli government contract, the Ariel facility becomes “the only recognized provider of leadership and biblical content for Israel’s Ministry of Education.”
An education ministry spokeswoman confirmed that a contract for almost a million shekels of state funding had indeed been signed....
“Israel is under attack,” he began. “This time though, the threat is not from Iran, Hezbollah or Hamas. It comes from a fringe group within Israel, which needs to be eradicated swiftly and forcefully.”You might like Shaked, but you should know that if you choose Shaked, you also get Bennett!
Bennett said that the attackers are Jewish extremists who said they are acting in the name of God, but in reality desecrate Him, Judaism and the Jewish people, and represent no one but themselves, not the mostly law-abiding residents of Jewish communities in the West Bank. They are a fringe group who want to destroy Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.
“They are terrorists,” he added, vowing to use all means at Israel’s disposal to defeat them. “They are anarchists, a fifth column…they must face the full force of Israel’s justice system and its defense establishment.
...“These extremists threaten Zionism, our future and our statehood,” he stated. “We must do everything in our power to stop them.”
Calling himself “the leader of Israel’s right-wing camp,” Bennett ...wrote that he “believe[s] in coexistence and working together with our neighbors to create stability, economic prosperity and a safe, secure future for all of our children, Israeli and Palestinian, without regard for their religion or sexual orientation.”
As education minister, Bennett said he supports tolerance, including having Jewish schoolchildren learn more about Arabs, their culture, history and language, and called for Palestinians to do the same,.... (Source)
If you are serious about what you say in your prayers every day and are not just lying to God and to yourself, there is no way you can support this erev rav mixture called Yamina. The time has come to choose one side or the other.
I won't presume to tell you which one, that's up to you. But, if you want to be on the winning side (even should they lose the State's election), I believe NOAM is ready to bring the Torah out of the Beit Midrash and into the streets of Eretz Yisrael. It's been a long time coming.
FACT CHECK: SEVEN MYTHS IN NETANYAHU’S RECENT STATEMENTS
ReplyDeleteWere the Peoples of the Land of Israel to be presented with a Vision and Practical Plan for Implementing that Vision to transform the current State of Israel into the Constitutional Monarchy of the United Israelite Kingdom of David and Solomon, which is going to happen anyway whether anyone likes it or not, it is DESTINY, we might be surprised to find that among the first to EMBRACE this idea are ARABS and DRUZE. First, the Leaders of the ARAB and DRUZE Tribes Clans and Families must be PRESENTED with the Vision and Practical Plan for it's Implementation by our Rabbis and Torah Scholars. Shabbat Shalom Aryeh Yosef Ben Meir
ReplyDeleteLowell: Why would the Arabs agree to this? They will have to leave to their countries of origin (or any of the arab lands).
ReplyDeleteNaftali Bennett has turned out to be a huge problem. On the evening of the list filing deadline, Rosh Chodesh Av, I could not figure out why no one in Yamina was offering a compromise to Otzma to enter into a Joint list with kavod. The lack of ameliorating compromise was deafening and seems to have reflected one person's Sinat Chinam. I should have seen it coming. Recently Bennett was quoted saying that 99% of Arabs in Israel are good citizens, that they are not with Simcha when Jews get murdered here. Anyone who pays attention to decades of polling data amongst Arabs knows that the more realistic percentage of Arabs who do not want us dead is around 30%. In short, 70% of Arabs celebrate when Jews are murdered here. That percentage is an established fact in poll after poll that has been published here since the mid-1980s. Yet, N. Bennett "believes" that only 1% wants us dead. The fact that he is willing to spout off sheker so flippantly in order to not be labeled a racist says something about how easily he would affix that racist label on others who would speak the truth about this matter.
ReplyDeleteVery good point.
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