MK former Maj. Gen. (res.) Uzi Dayan (Likud) toured northern Gush Etzion with members of the Regavim movement.
"As someone who grew up in the Jezreel Valley and was at the GOC Central Commander, I know the terrain and the struggle for every clump of land. Today, the Palestinians are waging this struggle to realize the "Salam Fayyad plan" to establish facts in Area C and the creeping realization of a Palestinian state with the help of European money. Israel is immeasurably stronger, there are excellent tools for this vital struggle: political, security, military, economic, sovereign-legal, and above all, the spirit and soul of Israeli settlement. After the elections we will accelerate discussion and implementation of settlement in Judea, Samaria, the Jordan Valley, the Negev, and the Galilee, "Dayan said.