Netanyahu pledges to build 3,000 settler units in West Bank settlements
Mona Kandil
Press TV, Ramallah
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared he will be building 3,000 new housing and industrial units in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
This comes just before the Likud party’s internal leadership race. Likud is scheduled to hold party elections to choose its new leader on Thursday.
Netanyahu is pitting against his challenger Gideon Sa’ar. Observers say settlement activity has been central to Netanyahu’s campaign for general elections, and with the new announcement, settlements remain the main topic during internal elections.
Netanyahu has also pledged again to annex the settlements in the occupied west Bank if he wins another term in office. He promised to secure American recognition of Israeli sovereignty over all West Bank settlements if he wins the March second elections for the Knesset.
In a video campaign, Netanyahu called the settlers to back up Thursday’s Likud leadership race, claiming no previous prime minister has stood up to the pressures he has for Israel to pull out of the West Bank. For two times, Israeli officials have failed to form a coalition, prompting a third election within a year.
Netanyahu has never halted settlement activity, and even now before the likud primaries, he has approved new settler units to tell Israelis that he will never allow Palestinians to have their own state, and will continue to swallow more land and expand settlements.
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