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Opinion | Who will they vote for in the settlement? | Israel today

2022-06-27T06:26:19.254Z


The Likud is the largest builder of the settlements, knowingly and happily • No one forces the Knesset members of the movement to repeatedly choose to stand to the right of the settlers • They do so with an open heart and a willing mind


Thursday, Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem.

Smells, shouts, colors, tastes, all the senses are activated and happy.

I buy a spice for couscous - Ras al-Hanut, thank you for asking - and the seller, who stands under three huge pictures - one by Baba Sally, one by Menachem Begin and one by Benjamin Netanyahu Yavdal - and the whole proud Likudnik, asks me where I live. " I am from the locality of Ali, in Samaria, "I answer.

What happens from this moment on is a summary of every generic encounter between a settler and a Likud voter.

"Heroes, you are, listen, heroes. No. Without you, we would be erased."

My answer to this sentence is always the same: "Remember that without you, the Likud voters, we, the residents of the localities, would have been erased."

This is a truth that one tends to forget: without the massive support of Likud voters in the settlement enterprise, it is highly doubtful that we would have reached more than half a million settlers, yes they would have multiplied.

I dare say there is no doubt that we would not have reached these numbers.

The Likud is the largest builder of the settlements, knowingly and happily.

No one is forcing the Knesset members of the movement to repeatedly choose to stand to the right of the settlers.

They do it with an open heart and a willing mind.

From the founding of Kibbutz Kfar Etzion in 1967, through the heyday and prosperity of the 1977 coup and the difficult times of the Oslo Accords and the Second Intifada, to this day we - the Likud, whether in power or not, have always been the driving force behind the settlement wheel.

Likud ministers and Knesset members do not support settlement because of some sectoral commitment, but because they believe in the triangle of the people of Israel, the Torah of Israel and the Land of Israel.

Only a person with a lack of awareness will be blind to the development of roads and infrastructure in Judea and Samaria, to massive construction - not massive enough, right - and to the demographic numbers of the last decade. Only people without any political-political understanding will insist on ignoring "Evacuation of settlements" has faded in the cellars of history.

There are those who try to disconnect between the two publics.

Well, I have news for them: it will not work.

It did not succeed for Ariel Sharon in the 2004 disengagement referendum, and it will not succeed this time, despite the Likudniks' immense anger at Naftali Bennett, the (supposedly) poster boy of religious Zionism.

True, I admit, it requires a deep restoration of the relationship after the unfortunate year we experienced.

It is true that there is a huge resentment towards the religious Zionist elite who preferred an alliance with the left and the RAAM, and God forbid not with the Likud, the ultra-Orthodox and the ultra-Orthodox.

There is also anger towards some of the settlers, led by the chairman of the Yesha Council, for their inability to see the big picture and for their insistence on seeing reality only through the hole of Khan al-Ahmar.

But it is important to remember the simple truth: the vast majority of settlers despise this government.

And above all: the alliance between the Likud and the settlers is strong and will remain so. 

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Source: israelhayom

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