What do you think of the Palestinian Israelis?

A question for israelis...have you heard of moshe feiglin and what do you think of him?

• I'm not interested in the opinion of non-israelis (who cant vote in israel anyway)...I'm curious about how well known he is in israel, what israelis think of him

• Answer:

  Moshe Feiglin is the right- wing political activist , one of the co-founders of the "Zo Artzeinu" ("This [is] our Land/Country") movement with Shmuel Sackett to protest the Oslo Accords. He is also one of the founders of the Israeli civil disobedience movement that developed in protest against the accords. As a result of his activities, he was sentenced to six months in prison in 1997 for sedition, but the sentence was later commuted to community service. In December 2005, Feiglin ran for Likud chairman and won 12.5% of the votes. He came in third out of seven candidates, after Benjamin Netanyahu and Silvan Shalom. He attempted to run for a slot on the party's Knesset list, but encountered severe opposition from Netanyahu, who delayed party elections and advocated making changes to its charter to bar "anyone who has served three or more months in prison" from running as a Likud MK. This would have prevented Feiglin, who served a six-month sentence in the mid-90s for civil disobedience, from running for either an MK or leadership position in the future. Feiglin withdrew from the race on January 3, 2006, following the release of a statement from the Likud party election chairman declaring, in agreement with a prior decision by the Israeli High Court, that Feiglin's conviction was not for "dishonorable" violations of the law, allowing him to participate in future Likud affairs. In the August 14, 2007 primaries, Feiglin nearly doubled his previous showing and received 23.4 percent of the votes to Netanyahu's 72.8 percent. Netanyahu, fearing a strong showing by Feiglin, tried to have him ousted from the party prior to the vote, and has said he will continue such efforts. On December 10, 2008 Feiglin was voted to the 20th place in Likud primaries. On December 11, following a petition submitted against him by Ophir Ekonis, he was demoted to the 36th spot. To put it short, if Netanyahu played fair, Feiglin would have been by now the Number 2 in the Likud party. Feglin by his views is somewhat close to Meir Kahane. Feiglin has proposed a plan to end the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians living in Israeli controlled lands. His plan would include using much of the internal military budget projected for the next 10 years to offer every Arab Palestinian family in these areas $250,000 as an incentive to emigrate to other countries. Feiglin points to a recent poll by An-Najah University in Nablus, which showed that one in three Palestinian Arabs want to emigrate even without such a financial incentive,as supporting his plan. Of Israeli Arabs, Feiglin said, "They will have to seek the right to self-determination in Arab states. Israel will encourage the Arabs to emigrate to their countries and assist any Arab who wishes to do so.". He, as well as I, says there is no such thing as a Palestinian people and that they and Israeli Arabs should relocate, citing a text he had posted on the website of his Manhigut Yehudit ("Jewish Leadership") movement. In a 2004 interview with Yedioth Ahronoth he spoke of "a voluntary transfer to the 22 neighbouring Arab states" of the 1.4 million Israeli Arabs . One of his most famous quote is "Arabs don't live in the desert, they create it." . What I think of him? I am even more right-wing than Feiglin. I think my answer is clear.