MK Aryeh Eldad of the National Union is not buying the recent reports that Israel and the United States have agreed on a deal involving a settlement freeze in Judea and Samaria and stiff sanctions against Iran. Eldad said Wednesday that he believes that the reports came from Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's bureau.
"Three months ago a similar spin was thrown into the air,” Eldad said. “At that time they used cruder language and said 'Yitzhar for Bushehr.' There is not doubt that besides the fact that Obama is trying to pressure Israel, Netanyahu, too, is trying to look for an alibi for the fact that he has had to give in to the Americans and freeze settlements.”
Eldad told Arutz Sheva's Hebrew service that he can now say with certainty that Netanyahu has not changed [for the better]. “Netanyahu has proven numerous times that he does not change,” he said. “Just as he feared Sharon on the eve of the Disengagement, so he fears the United States today. Everyone knows that Israel has not received a green light from the United States to act against Iran, and the United States is trying to buy time, as if there is a lot of time before the Iranians get nuclear bomb.”
'They want us on our knees'
"They want to defeat Israel and make us get down on our knees and Netanyahu is providing the goods and is willing to fold in the face of the pressure,” Eldad estimated. “The Americans do not want to do anything against Iran, they do not want to be involved in another war,” he said.
"Netanyahu is hiding behind these rumors,” Eldad added, “in order to avoid the troubling questions that are directed at him today: why is he freezing the settlements. It is unbelievable how the Palestinians are humiliating the government of Israel, we give them gestures in exchange for their willingness to sit down with us.”
The physician-turned-politician said he does not agree with those who say Netanyahu's government is preferable to another leftist government. “It is true that Netanyahu declared that he was against the establishment of a Palestinian state and that this would be an existential threat, but he also said that he was against the Disengagement and did not vote against it,” Eldad recalled.
“There is no connection between what he says and what he does,” he added. “I am afraid that the man who said that he was against a Palestinian state might establish the Palestinian state – that is Netanyahu, I'm sorry to say.”