Despite the inconclusive results of Tuesday's general elections ,it is clear that the political Right will have a majority in the 18th Knesset, leading Yesha Council head Danny Dayan to say that Israeli voters made "an obvious and unequivocal ideological decision."
Speaking to Ynet Thursday, Dayan said "for years we've been hearing of a consensus within the Israeli public regarding the two-state solution and the need for the establishment of a Palestinian state, but the recent elections have proven this to be nothing more than a corrupt spin."
The Yesha Council is an umbrella organization of municipal councils of Jewish communities in the West Bank.
Referring to Yisrael Beiteinu's successin the elections, in which it won 15 Knesset seats, Dayan said he was certain that party chairman Avigdor Lieberman would join Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu's coalitionand would "be one of the strongest supporters of the settlement enterprise in the West Bank".
Political sources have predicted that President Shimon Peres would eventually task Netanyahu with forming the next government.
"The election results are definitely encouraging from our standpoint. The Likud hadclearly stated during its campaign that the era of withdrawals has come to an end and that no Jewish settlement will be uprooted," Dayan said.
"Even Shas andUnited Torah Judaism madeit a point to remind the public that they did not support the Oslo Accords or the unilateral pullout fromGaza (2005). The leftist ideology has collapsed," he said.