MK Aryeh Eldad (National Union) was asked today how he feels about the deal offered to the Yesha Council: the destruction of seven towns in exchange for a moratorium on further expulsions. Eldad said that he is "of course against any deal having to do with ceding parts of the Land of Israel, but even if I did not feel that way, I would still recommend not entering into any such deal with Ariel Sharon. He is the man who originally mocked the idea of a partition fence, and yet now is building it with vigor; he was against a Palestinian state, and now favors it; he built the Yesha communities, and now wants to uproot them; he was always strongly against a unilateral withdrawal under fire, and now he supports it, under the pressure of terrorism... This has nothing to do with parliamentary no-confidence, but rather on the personal level; when you make a deal with someone, you want to make sure that it will be carried out as agreed."
Asked at what point he would advise his party colleagues to quit the government, MK Eldad said that this is not a fair question: "I was originally against joining the government, such that many red lines have already been crossed from my standpoint. I can say, however, that the official National Union party policy is that the moment the Cabinet decides on the removal of a Yesha community or the establishment of a Palestinian state, we quit the coalition."
Asked at what point he would advise his party colleagues to quit the government, MK Eldad said that this is not a fair question: "I was originally against joining the government, such that many red lines have already been crossed from my standpoint. I can say, however, that the official National Union party policy is that the moment the Cabinet decides on the removal of a Yesha community or the establishment of a Palestinian state, we quit the coalition."