Netanyahu vows no razing of settlements if elected
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | January 18, 2013 22:55Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Friday that there would be no dismantlement of any Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank if he wins a general election next week.
Asked in an interview with the Maariv newspaper: “Can you promise that during the next four years, no settlement will be dismantled?” Netanyahu answered: “Yes.”
“The days when bulldozers uprooted Jews are behind us, not in front of us. Our record proves it,” he said.
“We haven’t uprooted any settlements, we have expanded them,” he said, recalling that his government had established the first university in a settlement, in Ariel deep in the West Bank.
“Nobody has any lessons to give me about love for the Land of Israel or commitment to Zionism and the settlements,” he added.
Opinion polls on Friday, the last day they may be published before the election, showed the Likud-Yisrael
Beitenu list winning 32-35 seats in the 120-member Knesset, down from 42 in the outgoing parliament.
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