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Likud committee bumps Feiglin down to 36th on party ticket
By Mazal Mualem
Tags: Israel News, Likud 

The Likud elections committee upheld on Thursday a petition to move controversial party figure Moshe Feiglin from the 20th place on the party ticket to 36th, despite his strong showing at this week's party primary.

Feiglin is an archrival of Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu. The success of Feiglin and his backers in the primary was a blow to Netanyahu's effort to present his right-of-center party as more centrist for the upcoming general elections.

Polls show Likud winning about 35 seats in the election, leaving Feiglin, who opposes peace talks with the Palestinians, encourages non-Jews to leave the country and advocates recapturing the Gaza Strip, out of the Knesset.
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Feiglin announced that he had no plans to appeal the decision, saying that he did not have faith in Israel's justice system.

After the decision was announced, Feiglin told Channel 2 news that "anyone who saw the tremendous pressure Netanyahu applied, and all his tricks, which violated all law and justice, can safely assume that the committee, which is made up primarily of politicians, could not withstand that kind of pressure."

Feiglin added that he wasn't worried, saying that "we are winners. We will make it so that the Likud will get more than 40 seats in the elections and we will rescue the public from the scorched earth left behind by Kadima."

The petition which which brought about the change in the party list was submitted by Ofir Akonis, no. 28 on the Likud list, who argued that since female candidates fared relatively well, places on the ticket secured for women should be allocated to regional representatives. The result is that Feiglin, who ran on the national list, was effectively pushed down 16 places.

Ironically, among the regional candidates whom the decision moves up on the party list are Feiglin supporters Kati Sheetrit and Boaz Haetzni.

Netanyahu has announced that he intends to hold a rally in the Likud headquarters in Tel Aviv, with the participation of the top 40 candidates on the party ticket, in which he will outline his policies.

He is said to announce that he would not tolerate "interruptions and insubordinations" and that he would be the one leading the faction in the next Knesset.

On Wednesday, Haaretz unveiled an extreme right-wing text written by Feiglin that had disappeared on Tuesday from the Web site of his Jewish Leadership movement.

In the piece written five years ago, Feiglin says Israel should cut off water and electricity service to the Palestinian territories, withdraw from the United Nations and boycott the Olympics.

In the piece, Feiglin wrote that his first action after becoming prime minister would be to summon his government to give thanks in prayer on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, an extremely sensitive site holy to both Jews and Muslims.

Over the next 100 days he would announce Israel's withdrawal from the United Nations, the closing of its embassies "in Germany and other anti-Semitic countries" and the rescheduling of the school year along the lines of the Hebrew calendar. This would be the first step toward having "the Jewish state's pulse beat according to the Jewish clock instead of the Christian one."

Feiglin wrote that he would then address the Palestinian issue by ordering "the complete cessation" of funds, goods, water, electricity and communication to the Palestinian Authority. Any attack on an Israeli target would incur "the conquest of the area whose residents instigated the violence, their deportation and destruction of the area's infrastructure."

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      1.   democracy? likud is no better than kadima 18:46  |  virginia orrall 11/12/08
      2.   What is wrong with Feiglin`s manifesto?? 18:49  |  Tomer 11/12/08
      3.   Is this even legal? 18:58  |  Nephtaly 11/12/08
      4.   If he were to prevail... God forbid..... 19:09  |  Esther 11/12/08
      5.   Bibi `neuters` Feiglin + No.2 19:12  |  Feig-In-Noz 11/12/08
      6.   This is absurdly immoral 19:12  |  Rabbi Yakov Lazaros 11/12/08
      7.   Likud/Bibi 19:20  |  Yankee 11/12/08
      8.   Bibi The Swindler 19:20  |  ML Bentovim 11/12/08
      9.   The real Bibi 19:41  |  Lila 11/12/08
      10.   by whose standards do you live #5 19:44  |  elimelech 11/12/08
      11.   WHY LIKUD?FEIGLIN MERGE WITH WOLPA,AND YOU WILL DICTATE LOSER BB) 19:45  |  THE DEEP THROAT))))) 11/12/08
      12.   Likud committee bumps Feiglin 19:48  |  Schlash 11/12/08
      13.   With Nuttin` Yahoo`s [vernacular for prophylactic] behavior, 19:56  |  Yaakov K. 11/12/08
      14.   Feiglin makes sense 20:15  |  Nat Weinstein 11/12/08
      15.   Moshe Feiglin 20:15  |  Barrie 11/12/08
      16.   Likud just lost my vote 20:19  |  David Scott 11/12/08
      17.   Great! Now -- Move On or Move Out. 20:30  |  Ovadiah ben Avraham 11/12/08
      18.   So Bibi SUCEEDED ........ 20:39  |  Natasha 11/12/08
      19.   Feiglin`s Manhigut Yedudit Articles Expose Him 20:43  |  Ovadiah ben Avraham 11/12/08
      20.   Sorry, but that`s by far not good enough..... 20:49  |  Swiss (Dino) 11/12/08
      21.   Esther, how can he not prevail? 20:51  |  BBSNews 11/12/08
      22.   my wife+self would also like to join feiglin and government in- 21:01  |  yahn goodey 11/12/08
      23.   I don`t get the math 21:18  |  SDR 11/12/08
      24.   yawn goodey? russia is not on welfare 21:30  |  dont like it? 11/12/08
      25.   Anti Democracy 21:31  |  Surelle Itzkowitz 11/12/08
      26.   To Swiss (Dino) 21:39  |  Rafi 11/12/08
      27.   Feiglin may be that Extreme but would it not have been better 21:41  |  Honesty 11/12/08
      28.   really true? 21:48  |  rochel 11/12/08
      29.   Likud just lost my vote too 21:51  |  mimi 11/12/08
      30.   #10 -- blinded by convictions 21:52  |  peaceship 11/12/08
      31.   Netanyahu/Feiglin 22:08  |  Nemesis 11/12/08
      32.   TIME TO LEAVE FEIGLIN! Get out now!!! 22:08  |  Brad Martin 11/12/08
      33.   Why not get rid of him altogether 22:15  |  rm 11/12/08
      34.   Esther, apparently Feiglin will not now appeal... 22:16  |  BBSNews 11/12/08
      35.   Not oil Natasha, it`s brutal illegal occupation... 22:31  |  BBSNews 11/12/08
      36.   AT THE END OF THE DAY OLMERT = NETANYAHU AND NETANYAHU = OLMERT 22:35  |  Freethinker 11/12/08
      37.   Work the system! Part 1 22:36  |  CDG 11/12/08
      38.   Work the system! Part 2 22:37  |  CDG 11/12/08
      39.   # 26 Rafi 22:52  |  Swiss (Dino) 11/12/08
      40.   Do we have a choice? 22:54  |  Jewish Refugee 11/12/08
      41.   #22 yahn goodey 23:34  |  Jim 11/12/08
      42.   To Esther # 4 - If Feiglin were to prevail.... 23:50  |  The Threadmill 11/12/08
      43.   No 10 elimelech 00:03  |  Feig In Noz 12/12/08
      44.   Likud will pay for this Kadima-like behavior 00:23  |  Paul 12/12/08
      45.   LIKUD & the REST 00:33  |  The Teacher/Instruct 12/12/08
      46.   CDG, can you explain "nascent Sanhedrin"? 00:48  |  BBSNews 12/12/08
      47.   Moshe Feiglin Understands Judaism 01:23  |  Yoram Edwards 12/12/08
      48.   My Opinion this is Cronyism 01:25  |  Ralph Levy 12/12/08
      49.   36 03:05  |  Ben 12/12/08
      50.   Feiglin down - Likud UP 03:18  |  Don 12/12/08
      51.   Feiglin 03:43  |  steve snow 12/12/08
      52.   You purists will give us livni as PM 04:51  |  Sam 12/12/08
      53.   Nothing but an empty argument Haifa threadmill... 05:29  |  BBSNews 12/12/08
      54.   israels problem is that elections do not count 05:49  |  victor hardman 12/12/08
      55.   Undemocratic Facistic Act 08:06  |  Baruch Gold 12/12/08
      56.   feiglin is a dangerous man; but i can`t agree with this 08:21  |  eric 12/12/08
      57.   BBSNews: Nascent Sanhedrin 12:45  |  CDG 12/12/08
      58.   What`s wrong with cutting off Aza`s water? Allies did it in WW2 16:18  |  Tomer 12/12/08
      59.   Re tommer 22:15  |  Steve J 13/12/08
      60.   It`s a BLESSING! Bibi revealed HIS TRUE COLORS before ELECTIONS 22:53  |  Jennifer 13/12/08
      61.   Feiglin exposed corruption in the Likud! Bibi is dangerous! 23:02  |  Hanna 13/12/08
      62.   Feiglin and his supporters 00:33  |  D. 14/12/08
      63.   #40: Yes, we HAVE a choice! 18:30  |  Yaakov K. 14/12/08
      64.   Feiglin 23:25  |  Joseph 14/12/08
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