David F. Nesenoff: Foremost on our minds is the killing of the members of the Fogel family. What is the message we take away from that?

Moshe Feiglin: When I came back from the funeral to my car and realized that the whole funeral was broadcast live on the second largest station in Israel, I felt that something dramatic has changed in the Israeli society. There’s a famous reporter in the Maariv, a leftist reporter, who wrote the day after, now he realizes that there is no peace process and there will be no peace. And he said that therefore he has the feeling he has to hide under the skirt of Daniella Weiss [a noted settlement activist], that’s the way he wrote it.

DFN: So the game has changed?

MF: The conscience of the Israeli society is beginning to change and they realize there is no peace process. And therefore they feel they need to get closer to the settlers as they might have the right ideas as to how to function in the land of Israel.

DFN: What is the relation with your Manhigut Yehudit and the Likud party? I often think of Manhigut as the Tea Party to the Republican Party. Is there a correlation like that?

MF: Yes, a little bit. We are all members of Likud. But we are offering a different kind of leadership for the Likud. Leadership that comes from the Jewish leadership point of view, not just right wing or security, but Judaism.

DFN: When it comes to Judaism, do secular values and Jewish values need to be reconciled?

MF: Let’s face it. We have to admit it. The basic Zionist concept is let’s be a nation like all the nations. That’s not what Judaism is about. We are looking to, on the one hand, combine with what the amazing Zionist revolution did… basing ourselves on what Zionism built, the State of Israel, and pour into it the right kind of spirit. Because without having the right goals, the State of Israel is crumbling down. You can be the strongest state in the world, have the strongest army, have the best hi-tech, very strong economy… and still get into a self-destruct mechanism when we don’t have the right ideas to justify our existence in the land of Israel. And this is what Manhigut brings to the picture.

DFN: If you were Prime Minister, what kind of changes would we see happen?