Feiglin on Channel 14 investigation: "There is no such thing as a polite jihad"

Zehut party chairman Moshe Feiglin commented on Thursday in a post on the X network regarding the comprehensive investigation conducted by Channel 14's Arab affairs correspondent, Omri Haim. The film, titled "Mansour Abbas - The Polite Jihad," examines the Ra'am party chairman and concludes that there is no such thing as a "polite jihad."

According to Feiglin, Abbas and the Islamic Movement are not legitimate partners for forming a government:

"They are the enemy acting from within the Knesset to eliminate the Jewish state."

Feiglin harshly criticized the Ra'am chairman, comparing terror arms on the ground to his political activity in the Knesset. He added that the Nukhba terrorists and Mansour Abbas are "two different arms of the exact same octopus," sharing the same goal and ideology for the destruction of the State of Israel, with the only difference being the means: "One acts with weapons on the ground, and the other in a suit and tie from the Knesset podium."

He also referred to footage from the investigation in which Abbas is heard calling Jews "invaders" and denying their right to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount:

"When you hear Abbas say in his own voice that Jews have no right to the Temple Mount, the Western Wall, or Jerusalem, you understand the magnitude of the absurdity."

Feiglin pointed an accusing finger at Israeli leadership from both the right and the left, claiming they made Abbas "kosher" for political gain. He defined this partnership as a "moral and security bankruptcy of the first order" and warned that whoever accepted Ra'am as a partner for forming a government is abandoning the country's future.

Feiglin called on the political and legal system to wake up from the illusion, clarifying that anyone who denies the Jewish people's right to their land cannot sit in the Israeli parliament. As a solution, he presented the Zehut party's plan to uproot this phenomenon, including the demand for a "Basic Law: Israel – The Nation-State of the Jewish People" to stop what he called "the progressive poison." On the national level, he called for the application of full sovereignty in all parts of the country and the return of Jewish ownership to the Temple Mount:

"When Israel stopped apologizing for its identity, returned to the Temple Mount, and acted as the owner of the house, its enemies from within and without understood their place."