MK Danny Danon

Danon: Obama Gave Israel the Cold Shoulder

MK Danny Danon welcomed Republican presidential hopeful Gov. Mitt Romney to Israel, saying that President Barack Obama gave Israel the cold shoulder. “The visit of Governor Romney was very important for Israelis. We saw a candidate who cares about Israel. The very fact that he came during the campaign, three months before election day, speaks for itself.” Danon stated.

“We ask ourselves how come President Obama did not find the time to visit Jerusalem. He went to Saudi Arabia, he went to Turkey, to Egypt, but he forgot about the United States’ ally here in the Middle East.” Danon added.

“We heard a strong commitment from Governor Romney and we hope to see a change in the American policy towards Israel.”

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"For Knesset’s Danny Danon, unapologetic Israeli nationalism is key to political success"

By Uriel Heilman - 29/7/2012 - www.jta.org

If there’s one thing Danny Danon doesn’t do, it’s shy away from controversy.

Danon, a deputy speaker of the Israeli Knesset and chairman of World Likud, has come under fire for describing African migrants in Israel as a “national plague,” for hosting controversial U.S. TV personality Glenn Beck at the Knesset and for demanding government investigations of left-wing NGOs.

Though Danon is in his first term in the Knesset, his profile is rising quickly on the Israeli political scene -- perhaps more than anything else because of his unapologetically nationalist vision for Israel’s future.

He wants Israel to annex all the Jewish-occupied and uninhabited land in the West Bank. He wants Palestinians living on the remainder of the West Bank to become part of Jordan, Egypt to take control of the Gaza Strip and the international community to reject the establishment of a Palestinian state on the west bank of the Jordan River (it’s fine by him if the Palestinians take over the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan on the east bank). Danon does not believe in land for peace or the two-state solution.

Danon outlines his blueprint for Israel's future in a book due out in September, “Israel: The Will to Prevail," though the book focuses more on history than the details of the blueprint.

“I’m working very hard to present a different approach for the peace process,” Danon told JTA in a recent interview in his Knesset office. “Our goal should be to annex the maximum land with the minimum Arab population,” he said of the West Bank. “We should speak about our rights and not apologize for it. We have biblical rights, historical rights, rights according to international law. We also have common-sense rights: We won the war.”

While his ideas might seem far-fetched and antiquated -- a throwback to notions that haven’t been discussed with much seriousness since the pre-Oslo era -- Danon believes Israelis are warming to them.

“We live in the Middle East; everything is dynamic here. With time it can be feasible,” he said. “I don’t accept that my views are on the fringe. I do believe one day they will be accepted.”

Danon’s detractors fear this is becoming true – in Israel, at least.

“Ostensibly, one could even ignore the existence of this Likud backbencher, but little Danny Danon will be big, the sugar of the Israeli right," Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy, a left-wing critic, wrote last summer. "So it's better to pay attention to him now rather than later.”

MK Danon Honors Koby Mandell Foundation

MK Danny Danon honored the Koby Mandell Foundation in a special Knesset committee meeting intended to highlight the need for more government cooperation to support terror victims.

"After our son was murdered, we thought that Israel would be very helpful since we have had so much tragedy here,” said Sherri Mandell, Koby's mother and founder of the foundation with her husband, Rabbi Seth Mandell. "One of the amazing things about Camp Koby is that you are together with other kids who have similar stories. It doesn't only give us a safe place to be together, but it also gives us a chance to grow outside of camp.”

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Danon: Expel all illegal migrants from state of Israel

At a conference on the issue of illegal infiltrators, MK Danny Danon said firmly, "Enough talk, it is time for action. Deport all of the infiltrators from the state of Israel."

At the Conference, held in Schunat Hatikva, one of the areas plagued by African illegals, Danon offered a solution to the ongoing issue: Israel must "build cities for infiltrators, finish construction of the border fence (along Israel's southern border with Egypt) and expel all the infiltrators from Israel,"

Danon stressed that he condemns any form of violence but added that Israeli "have turned into refugees in their own homes, and the (African) refugees have become the permanent residents (of Israel).

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MK Danon: Jews Need to Come Home to Israel

Chairman of the Knesset Immigration, Absorption, and Diaspora Affairs Committee, MK Danny Danon welcomed 229 new English-speaking immigrants to Israel. During his welcoming speech, Danon praised the new Olim for returning to our homeland, but noted there are more illegal infiltrators flooding the country than there are new immigrants.

Danon added that “it does not make sense that each year more illegal aliens from Africa enter Israel than do Jewish olim from the entire world. We must fight to maintain the Jewish nature of the State of Israel and increase activity to raise the number of olim coming to Israel.”