Chairman Herzl Ben-Ari of the Karnei Shomron local council said Monday evening that he would boycott a meeting scheduled for Tuesday between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, the Yesha Council of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, and local council representatives regarding the construction freeze in Judea and Samaria announced last week. Ben-Ari explained, "The prime minister could have waited until his meeting with us and only then sent his inspectors to enforce his immoral, anti-Zionist and inhumane freeze order. Instead Netanyahu chose to talk to us like a thug, via a tour of Yassam special police and tools of destruction."
Ben-Ari said that the freeze was just the first step toward a Palestinian Authority state. He concluded, "Under the circumstances, I see no sense in meeting or talking with one who is working to establish another Hamas-stan like the one in Gaza - in Judea and Samaria ."