By Rob Eshman

If you want to know what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thinks about the peace process, don't watch what he does, listen to what Danny Danon says.

Danon is a whippersnapper member of Knesset from the Likud party. In 2006, he opposed then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement from Gaza. For the past year, he's been attacking Netanyahu for suspending new settlement construction per the United States' demands. When the Obama administration chastised Netanyahu last March for announcing new building in East Jerusalem, it was Danon who snapped back, saying U.S. pressure on Israel hurts Israel and hurts peace. If you saw the movie "Youth in Revolt" with Michael Cera (and you should, it's a very good movie with a very bad trailer), Danon is like Cera's belligerent alter ego, egging him on, toughening him up. In other words, Danny Danon is Bibi Netanyahu, 20 years ago.

I met Danon in the lobby of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in late March, after he'd spent a few days speaking around Southern California. He is a native Israeli of North African heritage, dark-featured, and was decked out in a well-cut suit and power tie — not your father's shirt-sleeve Israeli pol. At 39, he is chairman of the World Likud and Deputy Speaker of the Knesset. People said that if I wanted to meet the future of Israel, I had to meet Danny Danon.

Danon believes with every fiber of his being that the two-state solution is dead, the one-state solution is a "liberal scare tactic," and Israel must never give up the territories it captured in the Six-Day War.

This was a founding principle of Likud and its Revisionist ideological forbears: that Israel has a right to the entire biblical land of Israel. It's a point of view that runs counter to every international peace-making effort in the Middle East since 1967, all dedicated to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In an interview given to The New York Times MK Danon expresses his dissatisfaction of excessive interference by Mrs. Clinton in internal Israeli decisions.

Danny Danon, a Likud legislator and a Deputy Speaker of Parliament who supports additional settlement construction, said that Mrs.Clinton's "meddling in internal Israeli decisions regarding the development of our capital, Jerusalem, is uninvited and unhelpful."

"In fact, it is sheer chutzpah" Mr. Danon said.

To read the entire article published in The New York Times click here

Danny Danon, member of the Israeli Knesset, joined the Steve Malzberg Show to discuss the United States' scolding of Israel. This is the first time the country has felt pressure from their biggest ally the United States. This is a surprising statement from an individual who has been very critical of Netanyahu throughout the years. Danny is now afraid that the White House will soon ask that Israeli's not say that Jerusalem is the homeland of the Israeli people as not to offend the Palestinian people.

Israel and the US share a lot of intelligence, and to create a shaky relationship between the two countries will be extremely harmful to both. Regardless of what the White House requests from the Israeli people, he believes that Israel must stand strong on their beliefs and not fold under the pressure of the US. No one from the United States is talking about the Palestinians and their use of money to promote anti-Semite ideas throughout the Middle East. No one is discussing the attacks on the Israeli's by the Palestinians. The United States is not requesting anything from the Palestinians and the talks between the three groups appears to be very one sided. To hear the live taping of the interview click here

JERUSALEM – A member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling Likud party slammed as "racist" President Obama's policies against Jewish construction in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem.

"I think it is racist," stated Likud Knesset Member Danny Danon. "Can you imagine someone in the U.S. saying Hispanics or blacks or Muslims cannot build in a certain city?"

"What we see now coming from the (Obama) administration – telling Jews to not build in major parts of Jerusalem – is unacceptable," said Danon.

The Israeli lawmaker was speaking in a radio interview with WND senior reporter Aaron Klein, who hosts an investigative program on New York's WABC 770 AM.

Danon, the deputy speaker of Israel's parliament, said most Israelis see Obama as "biased toward the Palestinian side."