National Union Chairman MK Yaakov (Ketzaleh) Katz said Wednesday that the construction freeze ordered by the government against Jews in Judea and Samaria is “racist and illegal.”
"These are cruel decrees against Jews alone, and only because they are Jews,” he protested. “If an order like this were given in Paris, London and Berlin, the government of Israel would have convened for a special session and denounced them as anti-Semitic decrees that do not have a place in the enlightened world.
"All Jews must organize and fight for their lives, to build and be built,” Ketzaleh said, paraphrasing an old Zionist slogan. “The council heads must tear the anti-Semitic decree to bits. This decree must be fought from the Likud Central Committee all the way to massive construction on the ground, and demonstrations in front of the homes of ministers who dare to raise their hand against the Jews of Judea and Samaria. It is incumbent on every Jew to emphasize before every Knesset Member who helps prop up this government that it will be remembered as a government of Hellenists [as Jews who adopted Greek ways were called in Hasmonean times – ed.] who carried out crimes against the Jewish people.”
MK Katz expressed “wonder” at the fact that “the hareidi public and its rabbis, who are the ones who bear the brunt of the damage from this edict, allow the Knesset members [for the hareidi parties] to continue to stand beside this rotten person Netanyahu.” Never in the history of the nation of Israel, he added, was there a Jewish leader who took such steps against the Jews as he has.
MK Katz blasted local government heads in Judea and Samaria who consented to meet Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. He compared the situation to a man who is unfaithful to his wife “and then invites her to discuss the new situation which has arisen. ...Until his racist anti-Jewish decree is canceled no one must meet with the man. When the husband ceases being unfaithful, it will be possible to meet him again.”
The head of the IDF's Civilian Administration in Judea and Samaria will provide local government authorities with a list of 84 planned structures that can be built despite the freeze on construction, the Government's Coordinator for the Territories stated Wednesday.