Smotrich, Feiglin Create election alliance to consolidate national camp

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For Smotrich, the deal is part of a push for wider cooperation on the right rather than simply an electoral arrangement between two parties.

By Vered Weiss, World Israel News

Religious Zionism and Zehut will contest the elections for the 26th Knesset together, party leaders Bezalel Smotrich and Moshe Feiglin announced Tuesday, agreeing on a 13-candidate slate intended to prevent votes in the national-religious camp from being lost.

The agreement puts Smotrich, the Religious Zionism chairman, at the top of the ticket and Zehut chairman Feiglin in second place.

Religious Zionism then receives five consecutive positions, filled by Orit Strock, Simcha Rothman, Tzvika Mor, Zvi Sukkot and Ohad Tal.

The parties alternate more frequently further down the slate. Zehut’s Yitzhak Zaga is eighth and Religious Zionism’s Omer Rahamim ninth. Zehut candidates Omer Patsiniash Waldman and Arkady Moter occupy the next two positions, followed by Religious Zionism’s Michal Woldiger and Zehut’s Roi Kirschberg.

For Smotrich, the deal is part of a push for wider cooperation on the right rather than simply an electoral arrangement between two parties.

“I am glad that Moshe answered the call and decided to embark on this path with us. There are differences between us, and we are not seeking to blur them,” Smotrich said.

While acknowledging those differences, Smotrich said each party would maintain its own identity and direction. He called the agreement “the first alliance, but not the last,” inviting other political forces that regard the right as their political home to join.

Smotrich said security, settlement, the judicial system and preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state were among the issues at stake in the election. He said the parties had a responsibility to expand the national camp and work toward establishing a strong right-wing government.

Feiglin framed Zehut’s decision around a commitment made to its supporters not to risk losing their votes while ensuring representation for the party’s values.

“Tonight we are bringing the news that so many have been waiting for and embarking on a joint initiative designed to maximize the strength of the national and faith-based camp,” Feiglin said.

He urged supporters who value the Land of Israel, national security and individual liberty to back the joint slate.

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Acts 28 ends abruptly and that’s never sat right with me. With the inclusion of Acts 29, we are given a nice well-rounded finale to Luke’s biography and some interesting closure to Pontius Pilate as well. Join me as I continue my Lost Books of the Bible series on YouTube, reading from Acts 29, 3 Corinthians, and the Phoenix of Tertullian.

You can read along with these texts and more on our Sacred Scripture page. 

IN the summer of 2019, I was seated in the wine cellar of a walled Medieval town high above the Dordogne Valley of France, not far from Sarlat-la-Canéda, making phone calls, writing reports. I have given this story in other places and it appears as though you’re about to hear it again. Rob Skiba is a name you that you might be familiar with. Though he had made a name for himself as a Nephilim researcher, more recently Rob had taken a dive into the deep end of the pool via flat earth research. The recorded interviews I conducted between he and Rick Hummer, a fellow flat earth investigator and close friend of his, was published while still occupying that very wine cellar. Read all about it. Chicago Is Not a Mirage.

Word quickly spread. Within a few short weeks, dozens of flat earth researchers began accepting my invite for a private interview, if not a series of interviews. From a 17th-century tower built by King Louis XIV, and with a stunning view of the Alps, I sat down with Robbie Davidson, founder of the Flat Earth International Conferences, conducting multiple sessions. While staying in Dumfries, Scotland, David Weiss agreed to take part in the interviews, as did Bob Knodel of Globebusters. There were others. But when I asked the interviewees to discuss the moments that shaped their lives, among the many PSYOPs, false flag attacks, and hoaxes that were discussed, only these men committed commentary to the false 9/11 narrative.

The resulting recordings ballooned into The Unexpected Cosmology, a book which became a website and was even intended as an anthology. And of course, the following discourse was originally a chapter. It was Walt Disney who stated, “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” Those sentiments remain applicable here as well. American Sensationalism: The 9/11 Interviews was always intended to be expanded upon with the inclusion of new researchers. So I’m sorry to say the project became stagnant during the Covid-19 psychodrama. I took a break to tackle other projects. We lost Rob Skiba. Rob offered hours of private conversation regarding his life but we never got around to the big one. 9/11. It was in the cards. Sadly, Bob Knodel died soon afterwards. Voices are being squeezed from an entire generation. Gnosis passes with them.

In the aftermath, the FE community became fractured. People began going their separate ways. Robbie Davidson, among a noted few others who were interviewed for the project, got up and left the movement altogether. It is not my intent to erase his or the contributions of others if only brief. They came, they went, their testimonies remain.

The original vision may have hit roadblocks but it is not forgotten. I expanded this paper a few years later to include testimony from author Pauly Hart, a dear friend of mine. I had wanted to continue that trend every year thereafter but you know how it goes. For the 25th anniversary of the attack I have redirected my efforts to its first large scale expansion, including Andrew Hoy and Darrin Geisinger into the mix. Perhaps others will lend their experiences to the recorder in time.

The following is their report.

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