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Likud Party Drama
3 of the Sixth Month 5769This week's Likud Party Drama began on Wednesday with...Ya'alon calls Peace Now "A Virus"30 b'Av 5769/Aug. 19, 2009, 9:29 PM(YNET) Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Strategic Affairs Moshe "Bogie" Ya'alon (Likud) attended ...
I'm Shocked To Find That Lynching Is Going On Here!
26 of the Fifth Month 5769Netanyahu: 'Shocked' by Arab Lynching of JewHana Levi Julian, 26 b'Av/August 15, 2009, 10:46 PM(IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu expressed his shock and concern Saturday night in response to the lynching of a ...
National Union: "I Told You So"
Erev Shabbath Qodesh Parshath Re'eh 5769My commentary is in blue italics....National Union: Katz vs. Netanyahu, Ben-Ari vs. MinistersHillel Fendel, 24 Av 5769/August 14, 2009, 12:53 PM(IsraelNN.com) In letter to the Prime Minister, MK Katz decries Ne...
How To Reclaim Jewish Property
27 of the Fourth Month 5769Reclaiming Jewish Property in JerusalemHillel Fendel 27 Tammuz 5769/July 19, 2009(IsraelNN.com) With the Obama administration turning the corkscrews upon Israeli sovereignty in its capital, the spotlight focuses once again ...
Moshe Feiglin's Message To President Obama
26 of the Third Month 5769I am definitely late in jumping on the band wagon with this one. As a long-time member of the Manhiguth Yehudith (Jewish Leadership) faction of the Likud Party, I have been critical of its leader Moshe Feiglin several times ...
Only The Likud Can?
5 of the Third Month 5769Unlike the sometimes boring and sometimes Christian-loving, English version of Arutz 7 (Israel National News), the Hebrew weekly "b'Sheva" sometimes has an interesting headline worth mentioning.(Click To Enlarge)"Yamit, Gush ...
Happy Now?
12 of the Second Month 5769Netanyahu: No Preconditions for Peace NegotiationsAvraham Zuroff, 11 Iyyar 5769/May 5, 2009(IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday night addressed delegates to the pro-Israel AIPAC convention currently ta...
The Esser Agaroth Guide To Israeli Political Parties
2 of the Eleventh Month 5769The Likud Party is the current front-runner in the polls, with Kadima in close second. There was an expression going around a number of years ago, "You voted for Ariel Sharon; you got Shimon Peres." Let me be the first t...
Big Surprise
16 of the Tenth Month 5769Actually, there are two, big non-surprises here. Check out the report by Gil Ronen, with graph adapted by Arutz 7 (IsraelNN.com):"The ruling Kadima party commissioned a poll on Day 2 of Operation Cast Lead to assess how the...
Israeli Election Ploy
10 of the Tenth Month 5769By now, most in Israel have caught on to the election ploy that is the current Israeli Defense Forces' [IDF] action in Azza. Necessary and proper as this action is, there is no doubt that it is taking place now, and not thre...
Jewish Reality
Second Night of Hanukkah 5769I recommend reading Carolyn Glick's "Netanyahu's Grand Coalition." It confirms our fears of the dangers an Obama administration poses to Israel. In fact, according to her sources, it's worse than we thought. Who still...
Confused?
17 of the Ninth Month 5769The National Union, made up of Tequmah, Moledet, and Ach"i and the National Religious Party [NRP] recently voted to disband and to form a new party, the Jewish Home Party.Tequmah is made up of those who used to be the right-...
Some Likud Afterthoughts
13 of the Ninth Month 5769I wonder if Eli resident, Yehiel Leiter will be giving up his U. S. citizenship to run for Knesset, considering his poor showing (#39). That's the law, by the way, albeit selectively enforced, no dual-citizenship for K'ness...
A Guide To The Likud Primaries תשס"ט/2008
11 of the Ninth Month 5769Tomorrow, members of the Likud Party in Israel will be voting in the party's primaries. Most of the Likud members I know joined, like myself, in order to help Moshe Feiglin [and Shmu'el Sackett] enter the K'nesseth. I, mys...
