Moshe Feiglin, an Israeli politician and activist, recently discussed his decision to part ways with the Likud party and shared his perspective on the current achievements of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as well as the sacrifices made by soldiers in an interview with Israel National News – Arutz Sheva.
Feiglin commended the spirit and heroism exhibited by the current generation of soldiers, expressing optimism for the country’s future. He emphasized that the unprecedented heroism witnessed now surpasses that of previous wars since 1948. However, he pointed out his concerns regarding the political and military leadership, asserting that the real challenge lies there.
“What we see is the spirit and heroism of this generation of soldiers. We have never seen this in the past. We have seen tremendous heroism during all the wars since 1948, but what we are seeing now, we have never seen before. Personally, it gives me tremendous hope for this country. I know that we are going to win. There’s no doubt about it. The problem we have is with the political leadership and with the top political leadership of the army,” Feiglin opens.
He explains, “Winning, and what is winning, is the key question because when they [the leadership] decided to eliminate Hamas, that’s ridiculous. That’s not a victory. The definition of victory is to conquer the land, evacuate all the people from Gaza, and rebuild the whole Gaza Strip as the new greater Tel Aviv; Gaza should be a big city like Tel Aviv. Of course, Gush Katif must be built again. We should have an airport over there. We should have hotels. This should be the new Israeli Riviera. That should be the vision; nothing less than that. That’s a victory. When you talk about sacrificing our heroes, our children, in Gaza and then giving it back to the Gaza people, they are the enemy.”
Regarding the possibility that the Israeli and the US leadership would agree to such a final arrangement, Feiglin believes that: “First of all, those who say that did everything they could not to achieve victory by going back to the Oslo mentality from day one. I warned that this is what is going to happen. From day one, everybody was sure that what I’m saying now is what’s going to happen. What we saw was a Holocaust, and we created the state of Israel so that we won’t have a Holocaust anymore. The debate of how we are going to do it, we cannot do it is irrelevant. If you cannot do it, go away and let somebody else do it. But they don’t want to go away, and they established their leadership based on the Oslo concept because they cannot do anything else.”
He continues, “Don’t even think that the problem is an objective problem. We are the problem, not the reality. The reality is that right now, all the 1.2 million citizens of Gaza and Arabs in Gaza; most of them were evacuated from the north side of Gaza. Some of them should have been sent within the first days to Egypt. If you would have done it immediately before the Egyptians closed the border, it could have been achieved, and those who are not right near the Egyptian fence in the southern part of Gaza in refugee camps could have been used as a tool to get back our hostages. Getting no visits from nobody, no media, and probably no water either before we see our people back, and if you have a problem with that, come take them, please do. You can take them to England; you can take them anywhere.”
So, Moshe Feiglin decided to leave the Likud right-wing party because “When I heard Gallant, the Minister of Defense, say that he will slowly but surely bring back the Arabs to their homes in Gaza, even the most part of Gaza, I said ‘no more, no more.’ Basically, he declared that he was waiving a white flag, and I cannot see how our soldiers are giving their lives every day and technically winning and killing the terrorists and fighting like no one did before [like lions] like lions, for what? So that my grandson, who’s now in Gaza, will have to conquer Gaza again, and my great-grandson forever? What do you think our kids are just cards? So I left Likud, and I’m not going home, and I believe I have the solution and I’m going to declare it when it will be all prepared. Excuse me for not giving details right now, but I want to do it in the right way, at the right moment, but I’m definitely not going home.”
{Matzav.com Israel}
This is exactly what I think. I hope we get the idea soon.
“’ Basically, he declared that he was waiving a white flag…”
That would be “waving”, not “waiving”.
Thank you Matzav for publishing his words. Been searching through mounds of lies or ignorance for them. Couldn’t be more poshet.
My protestations of the last few months to a tee
He’ll be marginalized/ignored as usual.This is as self induced as they desire
He’s 100% right, however the Western world is soft nowadays and they lost their moral compass between right and wrong , good and evil.
And if Harry S Truman were alive and faced with the same scenario, he would do it again. He said that in an interview, American lives were more important than concerns about the people in Japan, their military commanders bore the brunt of responsibility (paraphrased). Even Nixon wasn’t going to apologize for bombing Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam. Oh how we should rue the day the liberal press and its minions took over the asylum.