No, that isn't a headline from the Onion. It is the substance of this article in the Jerusalem Post that I have also seen in other sites:
http://www.jpost.com/...
Settlement construction now would harm international support for the tough measures Israel is taking against terrorism, a solemn Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday at a special evening press conference that underlined the crisis mode the country has now entered.
Netanyahu repeated calls he has made in the past for a broader government.
“I have said from the beginning that I think at this time, in light of what is happening in the Middle East, there is a reason for a wide government, and wide united front,” he said.
Netanyahu added that many of the disagreements he has with the Zionist parties of the opposition are not real, and that the same Arab terrorist “coming to kill in Tel Aviv is not thinking about Yitzhar, and Itamar or even a Palestinian state. He is thinking about destroying everything here, everyone of us."
Labor and Likud differ on settlements -- or at least they did until today. But Labor supported Netanyahu in the 2014 Gaza War and will be every bit as supportive in harsh measures needed to stop the current wave of terrorism. Netanyahu also clearly does not like the Religious Zionists who run the Jewish Home Party, a group that is religiously moderate but extreme on Greater Land of Israel. Netanyahu brought into the government charedi parties, one of which is actually anti-Zionist, to penalize Jewish Home and as a result pretty much all the religious reforms of the previous government are history.
Netanyahu is one good politician. But faced with a serious threat of a Third Intifada, he correctly wants to nip it in the bud before more Israeli lives are lost. And if that means throwing settlements and pro-settler parties under the bus, so be it. That is the correct decision.