The ten-month freeze on construction by Jews in Judea and Samaria ends next week, and the more hawkish Likud MKs are pressing Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu not to extend it in any form.
MK Danny Danon told Arutz Sheva Radio's Hebrew language magazine that when the freeze started, he warned Netanyahu that there would be pressure to extend it when it reached its endpoint. The Prime Minister answered: “Test me in ten months' time and you will see that we will go back to building,”
"So we are testing him,” Danon said.
Danon stressed that intense political pressure must be placed on Netanyahu not to extend the freeze order and not to issue a new order instead of the one that is expiring. On Monday, Netanyahu is scheduled to hold final consultations regarding the question of discontinuing the freeze or continuing it in some form. These will be crucial moments, Danon said.
Among other things, he intends to take part in an event at the community of Revava in Samaria during the week of Sukkot, at which renewed construction will be kick-started.
"Netanyahu knows that it was the nationalist camp that elected him and the nationalists are the ones who will either re-elect him or vote him out of office,” Danon warned not-too-subtly. “All those leftists who are applauding him now will not vote for him. They will vote for Tzipi Livni. He knows it and that is why I believe he will remain true to the path.”