MK Danny Danon

MK Danny Danon Fights for the Families of Our Fallen Heroes

Wednesday, 14 April 2010 13:26

High Court Deadline for Razing Heroes' Homes Draws Near

by Gil Ronen

In a session immediately after the Passover holiday, the cabinet is expected to discuss the demolition order against a neighborhood that includes the homes of fallen war heroes Major Roi Klein and Major Eliraz Peretz.

In a decision handed down February 16, High Court President Dorit Beinisch and Judges Elyakim Rubinstein and Yoram Danziger gave the state 60 days to complete the hearings it is conducting regarding the demolition and present a timetable for its execution. This means a timetable is due mid April.

Danon vows to fight
MK Danny Danon (Likud) visited Thursday the home of the Peretz family at Givat HaYovel in the community of Eli, north of Jerusalem. He told the mother of Major Peretz, who was killed in Gaza Friday, that he will "do everything" to prevent the demolition of homes in the neighborhood, and added: "If need be I will use my immunity in order to stop the razing of the homes."

MK Danny Dannon: "Better to wait out an unpleasant conflict than rush into a flawed peace."

Wednesday, 07 April 2010 16:23

No-State Solution

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.

Danon to the New York Times: Mrs. Clinton's meddling is unaccepted

Tuesday, 06 April 2010 16:55

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