Several nationalist grass-roots organizations, headed by Moshe Feiglin’s Zo Artzeinu, will hold an emergency meeting tomorrow night in Tel Aviv (4 Kablan St., 7:30 PM) to announce a \"plan of protest action\" - likely to include civil disobedience - for the coming days. Publicity for the meeting includes a call to those who are \"willing to pay a personal price for Jerusalem and the Temple Mount.\" Feiglin would not divulge information about the planned activities, but said that they would last for several days.
MK Benny Elon (National Union) is not enthusiastic about the use of civil disobedience at this time. \"In principle, I do not oppose civil disobedience,\" he told IMRA. \"I was an activist and a \'soldier\' of Moshe Feiglin. But with important reservations: ...During Rabin\'s administration [we did it] because we wanted to have elections. But now there are going to be elections... We should be projecting strength. We should show now that the fight is over if Arik Sharon will win with [a large majority] so that no one will be able to claim that there are any moral grounds for any agreement that Arik Sharon says he rejects. We have a democratic device - elections. And we should focus on that... I would also say that such activity may have a negative impact on some mainline support for Sharon.\"
Feiglin, in response, told Arutz-7\'s Yosef Zalmanson today, \"First of all, during Rabin\'s time, there were also going to be elections several months later, such that there is no basic difference between then and now... I think that it is important for Sharon to win the election, and I think he will win the election. But this is not the end-goal - because his victory could either be the beginning of a positive revolution, or it could mean the continuation of the Oslo conception... We think that the very notion of giving away the Temple Mount must be an issue of wide-spread opposition and protest, without regard to elections...\"
MK Benny Elon (National Union) is not enthusiastic about the use of civil disobedience at this time. \"In principle, I do not oppose civil disobedience,\" he told IMRA. \"I was an activist and a \'soldier\' of Moshe Feiglin. But with important reservations: ...During Rabin\'s administration [we did it] because we wanted to have elections. But now there are going to be elections... We should be projecting strength. We should show now that the fight is over if Arik Sharon will win with [a large majority] so that no one will be able to claim that there are any moral grounds for any agreement that Arik Sharon says he rejects. We have a democratic device - elections. And we should focus on that... I would also say that such activity may have a negative impact on some mainline support for Sharon.\"
Feiglin, in response, told Arutz-7\'s Yosef Zalmanson today, \"First of all, during Rabin\'s time, there were also going to be elections several months later, such that there is no basic difference between then and now... I think that it is important for Sharon to win the election, and I think he will win the election. But this is not the end-goal - because his victory could either be the beginning of a positive revolution, or it could mean the continuation of the Oslo conception... We think that the very notion of giving away the Temple Mount must be an issue of wide-spread opposition and protest, without regard to elections...\"