Tuesday, December 09, 2008

A Message To You, Bibi


By Jason Gold

Bibi:

I wanted to have a little chat so pull up a chair for a bit. You know, I couldn't help but think of you as I watched the live feed from the Tel Aviv convention center over the Internet following the Likud primaries last night. I just couldn't help but notice how you approached the podium with a look of consternation on your face. I also couldn't help but notice the uncomfortable body language and that as you stared at the podium of the Likud roster you had to be thinking, "Hey, these are not my guys. Where's my left/center guys like Assaf, Uzi, Yechiel, Tal in the top 20? Oh, at least Meridor showed up at 17." But look at those hardliners in the top positions. And Oy, Feiglin, FEIGLIN!!!"

Poor Bibi, but at the risk of showing my age, I just couldn't get the lyrics to the 80's song by The Specials, "A Message To You Rudy" out of my head at that point. To wit:

Stop your messing around

Better think of your future

Time you straightened right out

Creating problems in town

Rudy, a message to you

Now just replace Rudy with Bibi and, well, you get the idea.

Bibi, your slanderous attacks on Moshe Feiglin, aided and abetted by most of the media was something to behold. Yet, despite all of it, Feiglin emerged along with many of the more rightist candidates that he recommended in key top positions on the slate for the next Knesset. You must have loved how the media dubbed it "Feiglin's Likud".

Your moves against Feiglin in the last days before the primaries reeked of panic and the fear/resentment that you have for a man with true leadership qualities and a true sense of Jewish identity and Jewish destiny, something you will never come to. Witness your attempts to change the election rules at the last minute with new voting requirements (which cost Shmuel Sackett the "olim" vote despite having well over 10,000 votes) or the continued extending of the voting deadlines. And let's not forget personally calling and forbidding Likud members from attending any Feiglin or Manhigut-related functions as well as informing them whom to vote for or else. And all this, despite your closest handlers telling you to either stop attacking Feiglin and raising his profile, or to finally embrace the man who has had his hand out to you for over a year.

What you saw last night, Bibi, was the return of the Likud to it's right/nationalist roots and no doubt that terrifies a man who as I have said, does not possess an ounce of Likud DNA in his body. You are hellbent on turning the Likud into another Kadima clone because you have this warped notion that you must play to the so-called non-existent "Israeli center" as you believe that was where Sharon and Olmert were successful. Unfortunately, Sharon was successful because he hijacked the ruling Likud government to form Kadima in order to carry out the disengagement from Gush Katif that the Likud had voted down. Olmert was Sharon's hand-picked poodle and only won because the electorate was so disgusted at the choices it had, that more than 40% stayed home and did not vote. That won't be the case this time as the natural tendencies of Israel is to the right despite the fact that it is ruled by a leftist ruling elite minority. Only a strong right-wing/nationalist Likud with dedicated incorruptible people like Feiglin can even begin to try and break the stranglehold of that minority and prevent you from playing to the the bastions of the left aka the media and the Supreme court and carrying out the national suicidal tendencies that you and the current pathetic collection of thugs have promulgated.

No, Bibi, the ticket you see is not because of you. It is in spite of you. Except for Meridor, all your bogus Likud choices like Leiter and Hafetz and Dayan and Brody were pushed into irrelevancy. Yet, I see you have another dirty trick up your sleeve aimed at Feiglin and the top rightists as your own poodle, Ofir Ekunis, who finished in slot 28 will bring a bogus law suit to the Likud court in order to push himself and your other lapdogs into a higher slot at Feiglin's expense. Don't worry Bibi you will fail and ultimately, rather than being known as one of the great leaders of Israel that you could have been, you will be consigned to the dustbin of irrelevancy, which for someone with your ego, is a fate worse than death. Or as a closing thought, to paraphrase the words of The Specials:

Stop your fooling around

Time you straightened right out

Better think of your future

Else you'll wind up in jail

Bibi, A message to you.

What will it be Bibi? The nation waits while rolling its collective eyes. We'll talk again, I'm sure.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Bibi didn't have to sell out his people in order to become PM.

What a waste of talent.