Former Likud MK Uzi Landau says he left Likud after seeing it drift towards the political center. In an interview with Israel National News on Thursday, Landau praised his new party, Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel Our Home), which he says will put Jewish and Zionist values before all else.
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While Likud has received a boost from new nationalist candidates, the party is still slowly losing its ideology, Landau says. Likud Chairman Binyamin Netanyahu has failed to give straight answers regarding crucial topics such as the status of the Golan and Jordan River Valley, and has announced his intention to form a unity government with Labor and Kadima.
Contrary to the media's portrayal of Yisrael Beiteinu, the party is not secular or anti-religious, according to Landau. “First of all we are Jews and Zionists, before we are democrats... If there will be any conflict between our Jewish values and universal values, we are first of all Jews. Jewish values have the upper hand.”
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