Israel Our Home Party voiced its approval of Netanyahu’s settlement construction freeze, unless it includes public buildings in Judea and Samaria and construction in East Jerusalem.
Public construction in settlements is close to nil; long before the moratorium it was halted due to tight budgeting, and the famed East Jerusalem construction currently amounts to perhaps four houses.
Meanwhile, civil law has practically been suspended in Judea and Samaria, where the Israeli Defense Forces have ordered local mayors to stop issuing building permits to Jews.
The Palestinians condemned the freeze because it is not a permanent halt.
I thought that Israel is a democracy.