The Otzma Leyisrael party reacted, Friday morning, to reports that Arabs had set up an outpost in the E1 corridor, between Jerusalem and the eastern suburb of Ma'aleh Adumim, by saying, "Netanyahu must immediately order the Israel Defense Forces  to throw all the Arab rioters out of there with at least the same determination and violence they use when Jews try to establish a community in their [own] country."

The statement by party co-chairman Aryeh Eldad and Michael Ben-Ari sought to remind Netanyahu that "even if he wishes to create a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria [Shomron] and expel thousands of Jews from the inheritance of our forefathers, he can not ignore his own statement a few weeks ago that he plans to build in this area."