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1. Feiglin Aide: PM ‘Stole’ Likud Primary Results

   Michael Pu’ah, a close confidante of Moshe Feiglin and a member of the Likud Elections Committee, railed against the election process in the Likud, after it emerged that Feiglin would not achieve a “realistic” position – among the top 20 – on the Likud list.

   Pu’ah attributed Feiglin’s exclusion from the list to the direct intervention of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who has long been looking for ways to “dump” Feiglin.

   “Instead of a ‘celebration of democracy,’ as Netanyahu is portraying it, this was a farce of democracy,” said Pu’ah. “I walked out of the vote counting in the middle of the night, after it emerged that Netanyahu had ‘fired’ observers from the vote count process,” with no one supervising the voting process.

   As a result, “there is no connection between the truth and the results of the primary. We will probably never know the truth, but I do not believe the results they are telling us,” said Pu’ah.

   According to Pu’ah, Netanyahu justified removing the observers to Judge Menachem Ne’eman by saying that it was unfair for observers from some factions – like Pu’ah and Feiglin’s Manhigut Yehudit – to be present at the vote counting when observers from others were absent.

   “Netanyahu called up the judge in the middle of the night and twisted his arm to agree to this, in violation of all the promises he made to me and others.

   “Anyone who acts in this manner has made it clear that he is not interested in accurate results,” said Pu’ah. “By the time we got a chance to make our case heard, it was too late. Who knows what went on for the two hours when there were no observers in the counting process?”

   Pu’ah did not say if he would challenge the results of the vote, or take other action to invalidate the results.

   Writing on his Facebook page Thursday, Feiglin said that he “owed a great deal of thanks to the many supporters, donors, and volunteers who joined with me, in a spirit of true self-sacrifice, to advance the ideas that we are promoting.

   “I embrace you all, and I promise you that despite the dark shadow on the proper procedure of these elections – and whatever the final results – we will not stop fighting for our principles, and continue out loyal service to the nation of Israel,” he added.

2. Falsehood and lack of integrity is the hallmark of politics.

   What a tremendous loss not to have Moshe Feiglin & Tzippi H. as top contenders.

3. This has nothing to do with Netanyahu. What we are seeing is a drop off of religious support for Netanyahu and expect Bayit Hayehudi to pick up many of them. Also expect some to support Yishai. Feiglin is a Libertarian and so his views don’t coincide with religious values ss adoption etc. Hotoveli also lost Hareidi support within Likud because she was vocal in support of the draft law. What we are seeing is a strong demarcation between religious leaning to Bayit Hayehudi and Secular leaning to Likud. These are the two right wing parties. Eli Yishai is trying to define a third party – a religious rightist party.
   Hotoveli should join Bayit Hayehudi where she fits real well. Although Chardal, her views on the draft + Rav Mazuz objection to running women this round would prevent her from joining Yishai.

4. #3
   Feiglin is the furthest thing from a libertarian

   “his views don’t coincide with religious values ss adoption etc. ”
   what are you referring to ?

5. Hotoveli (like most females Bibi recruited) has very little strong notions on religious and moral issues,she just takes the “nationalist ” stand

6. #3. This was a mistake. He is not in support of ss adoption. I don’t know how I came to make this mistake. He was actually a very big opponent. I must have seen a comment that was said as a joke that i didn’t quite get.

7. #3. Sorry, but you are sadly misinformed. This is from an interview Israel Channel 2 held with Moshe Feiglin before the primary:

   “Why is a homosexual couple morally different than a heterosexual couple?

   “The traditional family paradigm has a unique status of its own. It is an individual’s right to live with a same-gender partner. I respect that and support his right to access the medical records of his partner and the like. But we cannot claim that morally, the same-gender ‘family’ is identical to the traditional family.”

   Do you support their right to adopt children? Do you support the Surrogate Parent Bill?

   “No, I oppose adoption by same-gender coup les. Talking about their right to raise children without talking about a child’s right to both a mother and a father is not reasonable. This bill would allow an adult to enjoy a privilege at the expense of a child. A child needs a mother and a father. Whoever listens to the heart of the child and not just to political correctness knows that well.”

   Feiglin would not take a position against Halacha. He isn’t a mind-numbed robot who does as he’s told and the powers that be don’t like it.