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There are some selected excerpts from Yossi Sarid’s article in Haaretz. It relates to a previous article we ran.

“Sharon should be praised for his actions to smash the Likud Central Committee, which over the years had become Public Enemy No. 1 in this country. Once again it takes that lawless man to smash things of his own making: after all, Sharon is the very creator, and the Likud Central Committee is the golem, and that golem served him loyally for many years until it rose up against him. It’s the prime minister’s way, first to build and then to destroy.”

…”There’s no doubt that there are honest people in the Likud Central Committee: Moshe Arens and Dov Shilansky, for example, and they are not alone there. But that institution is a collection of spreading pus and abscess; gangrene has reached the entire body, and not just the body of the Likud, but the state, which the Likud rules. If the infected organ was not amputated, it would have ruined everything.

All it takes is the scene of the central committee members gathered in the corridors of power, jumping on ministers and MKs, shaking them down and threatening them, to understand who rules here. None of this bothered Sharon as long as the rabble did what he wanted. It’s not out of ethics and the public welfare that he has opened the abscess and drained the puss. He is doing it because the golem has run amok, and all his efforts to take control over it failed. Whatever his motives, they weren’t about public hygiene.”

“There are known cases of members “from the field” getting to lobby high ranking officials, for cash. There are even known cases of central committee members asking for payment from interested parties, so that the committee member would arrange a meeting with ministers in their offices. The “powerful people” of the Likud are usually those who are more addicted to their “friends” - addicted, they sold out, sold jobs and other benefits.”

“The ministers and MKs only related to the central committee and its members, and what they wanted. Decisions about the anthem and the flag and the symbol, when to stand at attention and when to stand at ease, a memorial day for Rehavam Ze’evi and a day for Jonathan Polllard would not ever have been passed if not for the central committee men being present…”

“Sharon is disengaging them now, and setting the puppets free. Now they will have to be the sycophants of one person and not more than 3,000, which is impossible and certainly not human. After all, how much ass kissing can one do?”

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