Some 1,700 English speakers crowded into Jerusalem's Great Synagogue Saturday night to hear representatives from nine of the country's leading political parties, in an effort to better grasp their platforms before the upcoming general elections.
Moderating the panel, which was co-organized with the AACI and the American Israeli Action Coalition, Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief David Horovitz invited each of the speakers to begin with a five-minute opening statement about themselves and their parties.
Dr. Bennie Begin, fifth on the Likud list, spent most of his five minutes deconstructing what he described as the nine false assumptions that have dominated Israel government policies in recent years.
An example, "Number 5, in January of 2006 the Israeli government permits Hamas to participate in the elections of the Palestinian Authority since it cannot win - an assumption proven wrong," he said.
Begin made his final case for the removal of the current government.
"Such a collapse of all basic tenets of policy indicate that these guys must be removed from their position in the government," he said.
