Comments on: Bayit Yehudi – The Right Choice for the Right

By: Reuven Miller

Reuven Miller — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:48:42 +0000

why has my last comment been removed?

By: בן וקסמן

בן וקסמן — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:43:08 +0000

Jeremy Gimpel "Israel doesn't have oil": Actually we do.

By: בן וקסמן

בן וקסמן — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:42:10 +0000

Micah Gimpel when BY presents their plan for cutting the budget deficit, they can start talking about national leadership.

By: Yedidya Kennard

Yedidya Kennard — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:45:21 +0000

Again, you say things without any details. 'education as our top priority' – that's just not true. Ask anyone in or outside Habayit hayehudi what is their top priority, and the answer will be the land of Israel. And that article about the draft, it was a slogan rich – details poor watered down version of Yesh Atid's plan.

If education is your top priority, and the draft issues are also so important, why didn't they even merit a sentence in your article on why BY is the right choice? These are critical issues, not something to be mentioned by the way in responses to comments on the article, these should be the main part of the article itself!

As for not being able to see the difference between Yesh Atid, Hatneua, Meretz etc, maybe you should pay more attention to politics? Or was that another pithy slogan?

By: Reuven Miller

Reuven Miller — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:41:52 +0000

Of course the whole party is behind Bennet! They need him to ensure the Knesset candidates 'including you (a fact which was "missed" out in the article) will be elected.Of course along with new Knesset members ' lots of jobs for the "activists"

By: בן וקסמן

בן וקסמן — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:33:13 +0000

this is a fluff peace.yes I know that your web site has some ideas but even there it is very short on details.

i hope that the TOI gives an opportunity to all parties, including the arab parties, to write blog enteries. we all believe in balanced journalism, n'est pas?

By: Reuven Miller

Reuven Miller — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:09:44 +0000

yeah of course , there all behind Bennet especially the Knesset candidates including you (which the article "forgot" to mention) , they need him to ensure their place in the knesset and plenty of jobs for the "activists"

By: Ari Bendor

Ari Bendor — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 01:36:14 +0000

oh please

By: Benjy Goldberg

Benjy Goldberg — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 01:01:41 +0000

I like Naftali Bennet, he is a good man, we need people like him in politics, but all he is, is a new face to an old.
party that plays old politics and at the end of the day is all about one issue ("Shtachim")- this country has so many burning issues I can afford to waste my vote on more of the same. What are your plans Mr Gimpel for all the great things you are talking about? Anyone can come and talk, not everyone- Bayit Yehudi included can show me a plan for all the wonders you talk about.

By: Josh Feigenbaum

Josh Feigenbaum — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 21:12:40 +0000

why is lapid, left" by the way? all he's done is call for serious negotiations and not splitting jlem, certainly to the right of meretz, labor, and livni. if you so proudly identify as right, what is the center on your spectrum?

By: Micah Gimpel

Micah Gimpel — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 20:30:04 +0000

If you are willing to listen, the various parties have a broader platform than what the media and competing parties present. They all have issues they hold dearest but bayit Yehudi has identified education reform, foreign diplomacy, building infrastructure throughout the state, equality throughout Israeli society as well as, yes, terriitorial integrity for the security of the Jewish homeland. They, like other parties, are not one dimensional. The Bayit Yehudi ideals can influence the course of Israeli society with their integrating an ideology rooted in tradition with eager full engagement in Israeli society passionately in both military and civilain pursuits – aspirations of leading Israel to higher education standards and professional equality and a more green concience mindset. So much on the horizon with this election

By: Micah Gimpel

Micah Gimpel — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 20:15:57 +0000

In the short term, there is no need to desperately support Bibi. Mr. Gottlieb's comments twist Jeremy's words but we have seen that also in the dirty politics of Likud Beiteinu. Bennett could be ready in five years and, in Israel, that could easily be a few terms. How much experience did Obama need to manage the pressures of the White House – even if you disagree with his politics. Bennet has only impressed the Israeli public as evidenced by every poll showing momentum going towards Bennet and away from Bibi. Jeremy's well-reasoned idea behind supporting Orlev, as Jeremy emphasized throughout his campaign, was a vote for both to be in the Kenesset and even have Bennet in the leadership in the next round. Jeremy always supported Bennett for Kennest and now, after being in Bennett's inner circle, I know Jeremy has no doubt in Bennett as a leader. And, it seems like a good portion of the country is seeing it that way too……good luck

By: Daniel Youngerwood

Daniel Youngerwood — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 19:42:48 +0000

Your party has chosen to elevate 'Land' above everything else. That's fine if that is what you believe, but your views do not reflect those of the large majority of Israelis including me. Once again, religious zionism will be identified with a narrow extremist right wing land and settlements only agenda. It is such a lost opportunity.

By: Daniel Youngerwood

Daniel Youngerwood — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 19:39:04 +0000

I find this article and response genuinely insulting for the reasons above. So many past RamatKals, military intelligence leaders have some out in support of a 2 state solution and yet you feel free to imply that they are not Zionist….I have given up a great job in the West to bring my family and kids on Aliyah for the last few years – but as I do not support Bennett, by your reckoning that disqualifies me from being Zionist -what complete nonsense.

By: Jeremy Gimpel

Jeremy Gimpel — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 18:24:15 +0000

Yedidya, for one of our ideas how to integrate the charedim – http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/what-a-brother-should-say-to-a-brother/