Israelis living in the West Bank (sic) should ignore the law and continue to build in their communities in a show of civil disobedience to the government-ordered construction freeze, MK Arye Eldad (National Union-National Religious Party) said Sunday.
"Our instructions to the residents of Judea and Samaria are to violate the law and build," Eldad said.
The lawmaker, who recently announced plans to head Hatikva, a new secular right-wing party, in the next election, had summoned the press to watch him perform a "symbolic act" of construction in Ma'aleh Adumim, one of several major settlement blocs that are expected to be annexed to Israel as part of a peace treaty with the Palestinians.
"Today, we established a symbolic structure to counter the immoral and anti-Zionist order of [Prime Minister Ehud] Olmert for a building freeze," Eldad said as he stood over an Israeli flag supported in the earth by newly placed building blocks.
