Asked to comment on the fake bombs planted around Israel in recent months - by anti-Disengagement activists according to the government, or by Shabak (General Security Service) provocateurs seeking to sully the legitimacy of the non-violent civil disobedience movement according to some activists - Feiglin said the issue was merely a distraction.
"I don't know anything about the dummy bombs and I don't want to think about it either," Feiglin told Arutz-7's Yishai Fleisher Tuesday.
"About a month ago, a leftist group calling themselves 'Anarchists Against the Wall' violently demonstrated near Jerusalem, threw rocks, and knocked a soldier's eye out," Feiglin said. "I didn't hear any left-wing commentator apologize or explain that this was a provocation. Two weeks ago, a border policeman died due to this group, and still no left-winger feels the need to distance themselves from this group. Because the left-wing feels like they are the representatives of Israel - they are not worried about how they look because they represent the real Israel. This is the kind of feeling we should have. I don't know who did it. I don't know if it was a right-winger. I don't know if it was a provocateur, and I really, really don't care. Don't ask me to condemn it or not condemn it. It is not my business.
"The fact that we put our thoughts and energy toward these kind of stories, no matter who stands behind them, shows the left our weakness and opens the door to pressure and violence against us."
Asked to explain what he meant, Feiglin said that the desire of the "believing" public to prove to the nation that they are not the violent monsters the media paints them to be acts as a crippling factor in the struggle for Gush Katif and the future of the Jewish State. "Why do you think the police [feel they] have the legitimacy to beat us and use such terrible violence against our demonstrators? Because they know we are non-violent and that we want to look nice. So we place ourselves in the corner and invite violence against us."
Following recent spats of violence between Jews and Arabs on the Gush Katif beachfront and the highly publicized pouring of oil and nails on the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway (an incident many activists accuse Shabak provocateurs of orchestrating as well), many leaders of the anti-expulsion movement have spent much effort condemning such actions and seeking to prove that they were orchestrated by forces seeking to weaken the movement. "I strongly suggest that we ignore completely these acts, and if people ask us about them, tell them to ask those who are involved in them and to leave us alone. If they persist, ask them what they think about their people taking out a soldier's eye," Feiglin said.
"They try to tell you, 'you are not an Israeli, you are simply a sector. And you, as a sector, should feel like Jews in Germany, or Jews in any exile - where, when any Jew did something wrong, the entire community felt responsible due to the fact that they were not free people living in their own land. I am not a sector, I am an Israeli, just like [longtime TV anchorman and recent outspoken opponent of the retention of Judea, Samaria and Gaza] Chaim Yavin. Did you see Chaim Yavin going out and publicly apologizing for the left-wingers who killed and blinded the soldiers? Did you see him feel responsible for people within his circles that did that? Of course not. Because he feels like he runs this place. By thinking and talking about these things we convey that we are not at home around here and therefore they feel they can beat us and throw us out of our homes in Gush Katif.
"We should be on the attack and not on the defensive. We must say, 'You are the criminals! You are those who are going to destroy houses! You are the violent side and I am not willing to even answer this question.' A robber is accusing you and asking you questions about how violent you are. Excuse me! What are you doing in my house? When a robber is in my house asking me all sorts of questions, I don't give him an answer, I give him a kick."
Feiglin, who leads the Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership) faction seeking to return the Likud Party to its Land of Israel-loyalist platform by recruiting members for its Central Committee, still believes that wresting the leadership of the country is the true issue facing the faithful camp today, even with the Disengagement afoot. "Today, we either lead, show the Jews another way and lead them - or be silent and let them do to you as they wish - destroy, delegitimize and dehumanize you. The question is not Gush Katif, it is the State of Israel and its whole direction. If you want to keep the people of Israel with you in the long term you have to offer them your leadership.
"There is no middle way. You cannot fight for Gush Katif and say 'I'm nice' and so on. It is not what Israelis are expecting from you deep inside. If you are against the disengagement, what are you for? What do you suggest instead. It all goes back to the question of leadership.
"I always remember the saying of the sages that 'When the nation of Israel was asked to contribute to build the Golden Calf, everyone donated toward it; when the nation was asked to give to build the Holy Tabernacle, they all donated toward that as well.' This is what Jews are.
"When Sharon came with his idea, he swept them along and when we come with holy ideas, they will be with us 100 percent the same way, and even more. We must believe in the good nature, the inner will, that Jews have inside their hearts. We must break the shell that was created around Israelis and get into their hearts. I have a strong belief in the people of Israel."
With faith that the trials the nation of Israel undergoes are a hidden gift from the Creator, Feiglin says that the Jewish people should thank Ariel Sharon for awakening the best of what lies in the nation of Israel. "We should already thank Sharon for bringing out such a wonderful spirit in our youth and in the people of Gush Katif - who are not leaving their homes. You think people don't see through all the media's lies. You think they really buy that it is our youth and not the ones you hear about stabbing each other in the clubs who are violent - the 12-year-old girls who spend 40 days in prison after being beaten in the streets with their hands tied. The nation sees this and it is thanks to Ariel Sharon."
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"I don't know anything about the dummy bombs and I don't want to think about it either," Feiglin told Arutz-7's Yishai Fleisher Tuesday.
"About a month ago, a leftist group calling themselves 'Anarchists Against the Wall' violently demonstrated near Jerusalem, threw rocks, and knocked a soldier's eye out," Feiglin said. "I didn't hear any left-wing commentator apologize or explain that this was a provocation. Two weeks ago, a border policeman died due to this group, and still no left-winger feels the need to distance themselves from this group. Because the left-wing feels like they are the representatives of Israel - they are not worried about how they look because they represent the real Israel. This is the kind of feeling we should have. I don't know who did it. I don't know if it was a right-winger. I don't know if it was a provocateur, and I really, really don't care. Don't ask me to condemn it or not condemn it. It is not my business.
"The fact that we put our thoughts and energy toward these kind of stories, no matter who stands behind them, shows the left our weakness and opens the door to pressure and violence against us."
Asked to explain what he meant, Feiglin said that the desire of the "believing" public to prove to the nation that they are not the violent monsters the media paints them to be acts as a crippling factor in the struggle for Gush Katif and the future of the Jewish State. "Why do you think the police [feel they] have the legitimacy to beat us and use such terrible violence against our demonstrators? Because they know we are non-violent and that we want to look nice. So we place ourselves in the corner and invite violence against us."
Following recent spats of violence between Jews and Arabs on the Gush Katif beachfront and the highly publicized pouring of oil and nails on the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway (an incident many activists accuse Shabak provocateurs of orchestrating as well), many leaders of the anti-expulsion movement have spent much effort condemning such actions and seeking to prove that they were orchestrated by forces seeking to weaken the movement. "I strongly suggest that we ignore completely these acts, and if people ask us about them, tell them to ask those who are involved in them and to leave us alone. If they persist, ask them what they think about their people taking out a soldier's eye," Feiglin said.
"They try to tell you, 'you are not an Israeli, you are simply a sector. And you, as a sector, should feel like Jews in Germany, or Jews in any exile - where, when any Jew did something wrong, the entire community felt responsible due to the fact that they were not free people living in their own land. I am not a sector, I am an Israeli, just like [longtime TV anchorman and recent outspoken opponent of the retention of Judea, Samaria and Gaza] Chaim Yavin. Did you see Chaim Yavin going out and publicly apologizing for the left-wingers who killed and blinded the soldiers? Did you see him feel responsible for people within his circles that did that? Of course not. Because he feels like he runs this place. By thinking and talking about these things we convey that we are not at home around here and therefore they feel they can beat us and throw us out of our homes in Gush Katif.
"We should be on the attack and not on the defensive. We must say, 'You are the criminals! You are those who are going to destroy houses! You are the violent side and I am not willing to even answer this question.' A robber is accusing you and asking you questions about how violent you are. Excuse me! What are you doing in my house? When a robber is in my house asking me all sorts of questions, I don't give him an answer, I give him a kick."
Feiglin, who leads the Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership) faction seeking to return the Likud Party to its Land of Israel-loyalist platform by recruiting members for its Central Committee, still believes that wresting the leadership of the country is the true issue facing the faithful camp today, even with the Disengagement afoot. "Today, we either lead, show the Jews another way and lead them - or be silent and let them do to you as they wish - destroy, delegitimize and dehumanize you. The question is not Gush Katif, it is the State of Israel and its whole direction. If you want to keep the people of Israel with you in the long term you have to offer them your leadership.
"There is no middle way. You cannot fight for Gush Katif and say 'I'm nice' and so on. It is not what Israelis are expecting from you deep inside. If you are against the disengagement, what are you for? What do you suggest instead. It all goes back to the question of leadership.
"I always remember the saying of the sages that 'When the nation of Israel was asked to contribute to build the Golden Calf, everyone donated toward it; when the nation was asked to give to build the Holy Tabernacle, they all donated toward that as well.' This is what Jews are.
"When Sharon came with his idea, he swept them along and when we come with holy ideas, they will be with us 100 percent the same way, and even more. We must believe in the good nature, the inner will, that Jews have inside their hearts. We must break the shell that was created around Israelis and get into their hearts. I have a strong belief in the people of Israel."
With faith that the trials the nation of Israel undergoes are a hidden gift from the Creator, Feiglin says that the Jewish people should thank Ariel Sharon for awakening the best of what lies in the nation of Israel. "We should already thank Sharon for bringing out such a wonderful spirit in our youth and in the people of Gush Katif - who are not leaving their homes. You think people don't see through all the media's lies. You think they really buy that it is our youth and not the ones you hear about stabbing each other in the clubs who are violent - the 12-year-old girls who spend 40 days in prison after being beaten in the streets with their hands tied. The nation sees this and it is thanks to Ariel Sharon."
Click here to listen to the complete interview