Gilad Sharon, the son of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the brother of former Likud then Kadima MK Omri Sharon who was convicted of corruption in 2006 and jailed, has decided to join the Likud party – and says he may run for the Knesset.

Sharon’s father Ariel Sharon – who died in 2014 after eight years in a vegetative state following a stroke – broke off from Likud to form the Kadima party and ram through the 2005 Disengagement plan, expelling all Jews from Gush Katif in Gaza.

As recently as last July Gilad Sharon defended the Disengagement as a success, despite the fact that it led to Hamas taking over Gaza in 2007 and launching three terror wars on Israel.

In an interview on Channel 2‘s “Meet the Press” program on Saturday, Sharon explained that he is not ruling out running for a spot as a Likud MK in the next elections.

“A lot of people look at the mess taking place and they don’t like it, it causes people to get fed up with politics, and I think the opposite – do you care? Do something,” said Sharon.

“Likud is defined as a nationalist and liberal party, and I am a liberal with po‎sitions – that’s exactly my place,” he continued. “My father may have left Likud but he also established the Likud, and led it to two of the largest victories in its history. Today’s Likud would sign off on his achievements.”

Sharon claimed that Likud is not in a crisis, despite Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon’s surprising resignation on Friday after his post was given to Yisrael Beytenu head MK Avigdor Liberman so as to have his party join the government. Ya’alon vowed to return and contend for leadership.

“Likud is a large party with a variety of opinions, both (Minister Tzahi) Hanegbi and (incoming MK Yehuda) Glick,” he said, contrasting different po‎sitions. “If everyone thinks the same thing that leads to atrophy, that isn’t good.”

“I don’t believe we can make a deal with the Palestinians”

According to Sharon, Ya’alon’s claims that Likud has become “extremist” is baseless.

“Seven years ago when he (Ya’alon) joined (Likud), (Moshe) Feiglin was very active – and today he isn’t there. Mere days ago he praised the work of the Prime Minister. I think it’s more connected to his losing his po‎sition. There is no complete saint or sinner here.”

Sharon would not rule out the possibility that he will run for the Knesset in the coming elections, saying, “I haven’t decided, but it could be. It’s important to me to influence, but I haven’t decided how yet.”

He added that he hasn’t spoken to Netanyahu yet about his joining Likud, but gave some praise to the Prime Minister, saying, “all in all he’s a patriot, and I am certain that he is doing his best.”

Speaking about his policy positions, he explained, “I want as much territory as possible, as few Palestinians as possible, and as much security as possible – and that comes with three principles.”

Listing those principles, he said, “it will never be possible to withdraw completely from Judea and Samaria, a binational state will not be established, and it cannot be that in the same state there will be citizens with different rights.”

“Since I don’t believe a word of the Palestinians and don’t believe that we can make a deal with them, we need to deal with the matter intelligently and remember: we live here because we won; they live here only because we are seven times as ethical as they are. If they had won, we wouldn’t be here.”