Likud party members' efforts against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his building freeze policy are aimed at encouraging the “silent majority” to speak up, but there is no need to dump him, according to Likud MK Danny Danon.
Danon has gathered enough signatures to convene a Likud Central Committee meeting to discuss the freeze. MK Danon told Arutz 7 he is trying to send a message to the Prime Minister, “Don’t touch development in Judea and Samaria".
“The Likud party is an ideological movement, and I think it is safe to assume that we have a large majority backing our proposal to remove the freeze that Security Cabinet ministers approved last week. “In private conversations with ministers, they agree with us but are afraid to speak out."
Referring to the Likud party platform to strengthen Judea and Samaria, MK Danon added, "Let’s not forget what we promised the voter 10 months ago.”
He insisted there is no intention to try to topple Prime Minister Netanyahu, who he said "knows he is breaking up his ideological base and will go into political oblivion if he does not change course.”
The Likud MK also differentiated the Likud party chairman from former Prime Minister and Likud chairman Ariel Sharon. “Sharon believed he had a [peace] partner,” but Netanyahu knows there is none,” he explained, referring to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
While hoping that ministers from the Likud, Shas and Yisrael Beiteinu parties will speak out against the building freeze, MK Danon said he was disappointed that Likud ministers Moshe Yaalon and Benny Begin supported the 10-month building freeze, contrary to election promises.