Israel’s Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis (Likud) has called for the imposition of sovereignty over the occupied West Bank immediately after the elections to the 21st Knesset set to be held in April.
“We must accelerate the pace of construction in Samaria and Judea first and foremost to ensure our natural right to our land and to prevent the catastrophe and what I defined in the past as the suicide of the State of Israel and that would be: The establishment of a Palestinian terror state in this place” claimed Akunis.
“We have stopped tunnels from Lebanon to communities in the Galilee Panhandle. Anyone who wants tunnels leading to Kfar Saba Ra’anana and Herzliya let them support a Palestinian state” Akunis added. “Since we do not want this and we do not want to see rockets fired at Israeli communities we want to see settlement of a much larger scale here.”
He called for an increase in the budget of the occupation forces in the West Bank.
“One of the first steps of the 21st Knesset must be the application of Israeli sovereignty over Jewish areas in Judea and Samaria” added the Science and Technology Minister.
