Moshe Feiglin

Moshe Feiglin Zalman ( born July 31, 1962 in Haifa) is an Israeli politician. In 1994 he founded together with Shmuel Sackett movement זו ארצנו Su Arzeinu ("This [ is ] our country " ) to protest against the Oslo peace agreement. He is one of the founders of the Israeli Civil Ungehorsamkeits movement that developed as a protest against the Oslo agreement. On the basis of activities under this movement, he was sentenced in 1997 to six months in prison for incitement to riot, the sentence was, however, later converted into a charitable work .. Feiglin was denied in March 2008 by the British Foreign Office to enter the UK on the grounds that his presence " would not serve the public good ."

Feiglin in the Likud

Feiglin leads the Manhigut Yehudit - faction within the Likud, which campaigns for the restoration of "authentic Jewish values ​​" and a closer reference to Orthodox Judaism.

In December 2005, Feiglin ran as one of seven candidates for the Likud chairmanship, reaching 12.5 % of the vote. He won so after Benjamin Netanyahu and Silvan Shalom third place. In the same election, he ran for the nomination to a list of space for the Knesset elections, but met with strong opposition from Netanyahu, who had to move the nomination votes for Knessetwahlliste and changes to the party constitution prevailed, to prevent " that someone be set up as Likudkandidat can who has received a more than three -month prison term. " This would Feiglin, who was convicted in the 90s because of civil disobedience, excluded from the Knessetkandidatennomnierung or any other candidate for Likudführungspositionen. Feiglin pulled his Knessetkandidatur then on 3 January 2006 back, and thus followed a statement by the Likudwahlvorstands, which in line with previous decisions of the highest Israeli court did not take place Feiglins conviction for " dishonorable " violations of the law, which he continued later candidates for Likudparteiämter or list places were open.

In fact, Feiglin ran again at the internal party primaries for the party chairmanship on 14 August 2007, and it almost doubled its previous result by reaching 23.4 percent compared to 72.8 percent for Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu afraid of a strong result for Feiglin and tried to get him before the primaries expelled from the Party. Netanyahu stated that he would continue to try this.

When the internal party election to nominate Likudkandidaten on 8 December 2008 for the Knesset in February 2009 Feiglin ran again and reached Rank 20

Politics

Feiglin represents a strongly anti-Arab policy. This applies both to the Palestinians in the occupied territories, and Israeli citizens of Arab origin. Both he wants to see from Israel, or from the occupied territories of Israel (including the Gaza Strip, which was vacated by Israel) away. Then Israel would annex the occupied territories and the Middle East conflict is resolved. It recognizes the existence of a Palestinian people not to. He also said in this context that the Arabs would not live in the desert, but they have created. The Arabs, he accused continue to behave as Amalek "

Arabs should never be carriers of civil rights but at most of human rights. Furthermore Feiglin suggested before, Israel should leave the UN and the Palestinians cut off access to their own water sources completely. "

Feiglin is known for his racist remarks. In 2004, he told about in an interview: "You can not teach a monkey to speak and you can not teach an Arab democracy. "

Moshe coward, a member of the Likud party of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was still held in German speech by European Parliament President Martin Schulz on February 12, 2014 in the Israeli Knesset away. He wrote on Facebook: "I will be absent during the speech, because it is inappropriate that a speech is given in the language in the parliament of the Jewish state, in which our parents were thrust into the railway wagons and in the crematoria ." He was referring to his parents by the Pan-Slavic Okhrana emigrated from Russia due to the monitoring during the first Aliyah to Israel. European Parliament President Martin Schulz told in his speech that a Palestinian youth asked him " why an Israeli daily may consume 70 liters of water on average, a Palestinian gerademal 17 ". Therefore commotion broke out in the Knesset. Although Schulz continued, he was unable to verify these figures, " and ask them if they are correct," the deputy Moti shouted at him: " Shame on you, you support someone who incites against Jews. " Jogev and his party colleague Bennett who leads the right wing in the government cabinet, then left with loud protests the hall. Economy Minister Bennett then wrote on his Facebook page, Schulz lied when he said Palestinians stand less water available than Israelis. In addition, Schulz spoke of a blockade of Gaza by Israel. " I call on the President of the European Parliament, to distance himself from his two mendacious statements ," Bennett wrote on. " I accept no lies by a German ," the minister was quoted as saying.