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(IsraelNN.com) Moshe Ifargan, a member of Likud and long-time opponent of the Likud’s Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership) faction, wrote an article in “Likudnik” over the weekend warning that the next assassin could come from the Likud.  In his article, written shortly before the anniversary of the assassination of then-Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, Ifargan wrote that assassin Yigal Amir came from “the fringes of the religious right.” 

“In these fringes we find [Manhigut Yehudit head Moshe] Feiglin’s sect that has infiltrated the Likud, a sect speaking a language saturated with violence and filling the radical Kahanist characteristics typical of political criminals,” Ifargan wrote.  He said that harsh language used by Feiglin and other Jewish Leadership heads in criticizing the government and the Supreme Court could encourage “extremists” to violence, “which would, at least officially, become a ‘Likudnik’ action.”