Netanyahu refuses to lift freeze

Regional council heads complain after meeting with PM that he refused demands of the public in folding to Obama’s pressure not to build.

By Yoni Kempinski, INN

Heads of the Yesha council and various regional councils in Judea and Samaria met for several hours late Tuesday night with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, but according to them their demands for a response to the wave of Arab terror went unanswered.

Following the meeting at the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem, the regional heads spoke with the media, expressing their disappointment that Netanyahu refused to meet their requests to stop the unprecedented building freeze in eastern Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, which has been ongoing to various degrees since failed peace talks began in late 2013.

Samaria Regional Head Yossi Dagan said, “the public in Israel demands a response, which needs to arrive without connection to, but certainly after, murderous attacks like these.”

Calling for construction in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, he commented, “it isn’t a dirty word to say ‘new towns,’ it isn’t a dirty word to say ‘approval of plans.'”

“Unfortunately, despite the good intentions of the prime minister and certainly his intentions are good, and he cares about the state of Israel and the settlements, we feel that unfortunately we didn’t receive the answers to the demands of the vast majority of the nation of Israel,” concluded Dagan.

Regarding Netanyahu’s refusal to lift the construction freeze, Channel 2 reported on Tuesday night that the prime minister folded to pressure from US President Barack Obama, who threatened that if Israel approved new construction, the US would not veto a looming UN Security Council resolution that would establish “Palestine” and declare “settlements” in Judea-Samaria illegal.

That stance comes despite the fact that the 2012 Levy Report proved Israel’s presence in the Biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria is completely legal according to international law. Despite being commissioned by Netanyahu, the coalition government has yet to adopt the report.

In a statement released by the Yesha Council after the meeting with Netanyahu was written: “we met this evening with the prime minister and the securityminister for a long discussion about security and settlement. We received partial answers that aren’t enough.”

The regional heads are to hold a meeting on Wednesday to discuss the results of last night’s meeting.

Arutz Sheva has learned that the decision has been made to continue the protest tent in front of the Prime Minister’s Residence at least until next Tuesday, which is the end of the shiva period of seven days of intense initial mourning for the Henkin couple who where murdered last Thursday by Hamas terrorists.

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  1. The regional heads are to hold a meeting on Wednesday to discuss the results of last night’s meeting.

    the “results” are the same as they have been every other time that BB slapped the face of his electors and rubbed their faces in shiiite. the list is too long but we can see that despite whatever the rationalization and reason given at the time BB has always taken action to obstruct settlement and rights of Jews in Holy places. Notice that no one can remember BB saying that Jews have the legal and legitimate right to settle in YS….. only natural growth of existing major blocks. A person who is unable to achieve his hopes, desires, goals, target can still make a mission statement or express a desire….. I am sure that Abbas and every pal leader have no problem stating to all their perceived rights…. but not BB…. nary a mention. Therefore, more and more, the Jews are perceived as liars and thieves stealing the lands of others because their leader never states otherwise. it appears to me that he wants Israelis to think the same thing. Is BB MO what folks wanted when they elected him… or was Benett closer to their desires? Likud appears to simply be the BB rubber stamp with no influence over his actions OR they must support him.

  2. That stance comes despite the fact that the 2012 Levy Report proved Israel’s presence in the Biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria is completely legal according to international law. Despite being commissioned by Netanyahu, the coalition government has yet to adopt the report.

    gosh, I am surprised that anyone remembers that fact….soon it will be in the dustbin of all the other blah blah blah things that BB did for the right wing who elected him. Or perhaps I am wrong and those who elected BB instead of Benett really wanted a center left party who would just protect the major settlements, maybe give away some negev land for it… but are completely disinterested in the vacant lands in YS for zionism. In such an orwellian doublespeak scenario I can understand why those who seek to give away the jewish homeland to the muslims call themselves a zionist union. it sounds that BB has a lot in common with them

  3. Netanyahu refused to meet their requests to stop the unprecedented building freeze in eastern Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, which has been ongoing to various degrees since failed peace talks began in late 2013

    why isanyone surprised? Too bad that some folks who were for zionism in YS switched their vote from Benett to BB when he panicked them with his scam. We will never know if the guy who always says Obama made me do it, after appearing to fight him tooth and nail, would have been unable to banish the only one left for Jewish settlement to a siberian eunuch ministry similar to what he did to Feiglin… getting rid of, obstructing, anyone for jews and jewish settlement while singing the right wing anthem.

    Yossi Dagan said, “the public in Israel demands a response, which needs to arrive without connection to, but certainly after, murderous attacks like these.”

    there should never have been a connection between pal terror and settlement. A right wing gov should have tried to advance Jewish settlement in YS. I wonder how many who voted for BB wanted, or expected, him to advance jewish settlement in YS? BB has done the opposite with his smoke and mirrors rhetoric whereby he appears to fight for Jerusalem while singlehandedly accomplishing what no left wing gov could have done: he has completely removed the topic of Jewish settlement in YS from the Israeli psyche. Now the only discussion wrt YS are whether the Jewish extremist settlers should be incarcerated, removed or allowed to be slaughtered by pals. Right wing fools and even the settlers haven’t noticed what he did and how it was intentional. His talking about the rights of jews settling in Jerusalem but never about jewish rights to YS is similar to his most recent boast about not allowing NUCLEAR weapons to be transferred to hexbullah.. in this way he signaled that non nuclear transfers will be allowed. BB is the master of this red herring deflection of the Israeli psyche.

    “Unfortunately, despite the good intentions of the prime minister and certainly his intentions are good, and he cares about the state of Israel and the settlements, we feel that unfortunately we didn’t receive the answers to the demands of the vast majority of the nation of Israel,” concluded Dagan.

    and so and on the scam continues with fools being satisfied with words.

    the prime minister folded to pressure from US President Barack Obama, who threatened that if Israel approved new construction, the US would not veto a looming UN Security Council resolution that would establish “Palestine” and declare “settlements” in Judea-Samaria illegal.

    its convenient that the obama made me do it card is always released in anonymous non committal vague and denied rumors. Did BB voters want him to kowtow to everything that obama threatens by rumor? Why doesnt BB inform the Israeli public that obama threatens and let them decide. Obama denies the threats and so does BB but the BS rumor does the trick to protect BB continuing to move the Israeli psyche to an acceptance of the giving up of YS. Israel has been in much weaker positions, obama is soon gone… if the rumor were true the releasing and publishing of it would knock the dems out of the next election and congress would raise a stink. By not releasing the info BB covers himself and obama. It is too convenient for me to buy from someone who has not been honest. All BB has to do is invoke Obama and he gets a cover for his non action,his obstruction, his real hostility to zionism and Jewish settlement in YS. what is the difference between BB and the left? Did BB voters seek a leader where nothing happens for them?

  4. Netanyahu keeps making excuses.

    Refusing to build is saying is saying a hostile American President enjoys a veto over Israeli sovereignty.

    A Prime Minister unwilling to compromise on it would have authorized new construction and told the Americans to do their worst.

    And there exists the chance the Russians would have helped out Israel to stick it to Obama.

    Its time for Israel to shake itself free of the embrace of a declining America.

  5. And…
    Peres Rabin acted to favor the murder of Jews, preferably in Jerusalem and Y & S. That in their expectation that the mayhem would help them rid of the Jews and the villages.
    Sharon went several steps farther and Netanyahu is not far behind.

  6. I cannot fathom what it will take for us as a people to come down to reality. How many times will the coward and betrayer do the same thing until he is vacated KBNMT?
    What does it take my friends?
    Still hung up on the moronic “vat ist da alternativahhhh” question invented by the peresites?
    Anyone with a moral compass and a sane mind will do.
    Get rid of the MIME Minister.
    He can go make faces, use red markers and do speeching elsewhere.
    LISTEN!
    He intentionally dropped the ball on Iran. He did.
    He allowed 50000 illegal aliens to infest South Tel Aviv.
    The completely incompetent gang with him failed to secure even minimum supplies and services in many locations of Israel during the last month.
    He has FROZEN Jerusalem and Y & S for years.