Is Netanyahu Just Another Sharon?

Bibi is looking an awful like Arik Sharon this last week as he steamrolled 'democracy' in favor of his own desires.  The Likud primaries held last week were supposed to be a show of democracy and respect for the voters of the Likud.  It was instead, a repeat of the Sharon fiasco that took place prior to the expulsion of almost 10,000 Israelis from their homes in Gush Katif and the northern Shomron back in 2005.

Like Sharon, Binyamin Netanyahu, in the framework of the Likud, set forth a type of 'referendum' of who would take what number on the Likud party list.  The Likud member's votes, after all the work and expenses and campaigning, were tossed to the wind.  They were not respected.

To those who remember back a few years, Ariel Sharon, was elected on the platform against unilateral withdrawal, and then turned around and embraced it wholeheartedly and implemented it.  He won the national elections in a landslide because he was AGAINST his opponent, Amram Mitznah's unlilateral withdrawal plan.  But then, after Sharon won, he took on the same platform he ran against, to the horror of those who voted for him.   After this betrayal of democracy, he then agreed to let the Likud party members decide about the fate of Gush Katif since he did a 180 degree turn on his own party's platform.  He agreed to a referendum and said he would honor what the Likud voters decided.  Well, the referendum was an overwhelming success in support for holding on to Gush Katif and northern Shomron.  However, when the results came in, and Sharon realized he lost, he decided that he would not honor the referendum that he agreed to.  He dissed the voters of his own party that he was supposed to serve. He was going to have it HIS way.  Democracy shemocracy. 
How do we know he will respect ANY democratic vote the people of Israel or his own party make?

A similar scenario took place last week, as Moshe Feiglin, a right wing Likud candidate was voted into slot number #20 on the list.  The Likud is expected to take at least 30 seats in this next election, so it looked like a sure thing that Feiglin would get in and his Likud supporters were celebrating.  Unfortunately, Netanyahu, acting similar to Sharon, flew in and nixed the votes of the party he is supposed to serve and arranged a re-shuffling of the seats, citing some lame reason as to bring up the 'district reps' on the ticket.  This invasive act plunged Feiglin all the way down, more than ten seats, to a slot somewhere in the 30's, which may be unrealistic in getting him a seat in the next Knesset.

Netanyahu disrespected the voters, AND the democratic process he seems to hold so high.  Is this democracy?  Is this Netanyahu, or Sharon?  Is this what we can expect in the next government when he gets elected and is suspected to want to cede the Golan Heights, Judea & Samaria and possibly Jerusalem? - What if Likud voters say no?

If he runs on a platform for keeping Jerusalem united, and then after being elected says that 'things have changed' and he now believes we need to cede parts of our capital to our enemy, or some other part of the Land of Israel, and then we yell 'No!", and remind him of his campaign promises and/or that of the Likud party's principles, how can we know he will respect them?  How do we know he will respect ANY democratic vote the people of Israel or his own party make?

Are we seeing another tyrant-acting and un-democratic Sharon, in Netanyahu?  "Hey, it worked for Arik, so why not me?" he might think.

Does Netanyahu strut wearing democracy on his chest, but discard it as easily as taking off one's coat. Does this steamrolling of democracy show that Bibi will be just another Arik?  I don't want to see mudslinging and dirty remarks about Bib in the talk-backs here.  I just want to bring this to your attention, so that if anyone does decide to vote for the Likud, they understand who they are getting.  ...Just another Sharon.

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Make It A Good Lie

At least if it is a good lie, I know you had enough respect for me to make the effort to make the lie believable.
It never ceases to amaze me how politicians can blow us off.  It befuddles me how much contempt they have for us all with their pathetic speeches stuffed with all-out lies.  My mother always used to say to people, "If you are going to lie to me, make it a good lie.  I take insult at being lied to if the lie is so lame, that you didn't even bother to put any effort into it.  At least if it is a good lie, I know you had enough respect for me to make the effort to make the lie believable."

Politicians seem to have less and less respect for the citizens they are supposed to serve. Just today, the Governor of Illinois was arrested for trying to sell to the highest bidder, Obama's senatorial seat.  THE GOVERNOR OF ILLINIOS WAS ARRESTED!!!  Amazing.  He should have tried to be more clever, be a better liar.  Well, I am glad he got caught, at least.

And today's news story in the Israeli media "showed Prime Minister Olmert hugging a small child during a visit to Sderot and saying he was "very touched" by a letter from a sixth grader that life under rocket attacks is not normal.   He said he shares the feelings and fears of western Negev residents and added, "We do not for one moment tolerate such a lifestyle in which we have to run to shelters to hide from our enemies." "

Is your jaw hanging down agog?  He actually had the nerve to say, "We do not for one moment tolerate such a lifestyle in which we have to run to shelters to hide from our enemies." ?    Mr. Prime Minister, we've been suffering enemy fire on our country for at least the last 7 years!!!!!   Mr. Prime Minister, if you are going to lie to us, at least make it a good one. 

Last week, we saw the repulsive build up of Israeli security forces, police, army, etc… swell around Hebron's Peace House where Israeli citizens were living.  The Israeli residents of Peace House have a contract showing the sale, and a video of the former Arab owner counting out his money from the sale.  Our southern region is under enemy P.A. Arab rocket fire, but the government doesn't have the means to stop the enemy.  But they DO have the forces to throw Israeli families out of their homes in Hebron. 
Israel can't get enough police to evict the Arab squatters in Yitzchak Herskovitz's legally owned home but yet they have enough forces to send to Hebron to pull out Israeli families and supporters from their homes.

Israel can't get enough police to evict the Arab squatters in Yitzchak Herskovitz's legally owned home

(see this amazing story:  "Exclusive: Squatters Ordered Off Stolen Jewish Land in Jerusalem because they are afraid of violence,"  and "Jerusalem Land-Owner to Sue Police ")  

yet they have enough forces to send to Hebron, to expel Israeli families and their freinds and supporters from there. 

We have our beautiful young soldier Gilad Shalit languishing somewhere in Gaza, a couple of miles from Sderot, yet our leaders say we can't free him.  We can't make an incursion into a place we know the enemy resides and launches missiles from???  Hmf!  -Another lousy lie.

Our politicians say that we cannot make peace without giving up land.  -Another very old, tired lie.

Our politicians and media label Moshe Feiglin, after yesterday's win in the Likud primaries, an 'extremist', yet call PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas (a terrorist and Holocaust denier) a moderate.  - What a lie.

Western politicians say we are fighting terrorists, and then press our (willing) Prime Minister to release 230 more convicted terrorists being held behind bars here in Israel.  -They lie to us about really fighting the 'axis of evil'.

Western politicians tell us that we are fighting a war on 'terror'.  Yet in reality, we are in fact being forced to fight a religious war waged by Islam against all 'non believers'. 'Terror' is not an enemy, terror is a 'tactic', at the moment perpetrated by Infidel hating Muslims.  We are not fighting terrorists, we are fighting Islamic conquerors.  -sigh- -Yet another lie we are fed.

Binyamin Netanyahu will shake PLO terrorist Yassar Arafat's blood stained hand, but will not shake G-d fearing Jew- Moshe Feiglin's hand ---who he shares the same political party with by the way.  What a world full of lies we live in.

Just gimme some truth! - or, at the very least, make it a GOOD lie.