"Our international situation, never in all the history of the country since 1948 to this day, has never been so bad." In February 2016, MK Yair Lapid said - the leading candidate to serve as Foreign Minister in the blue and white government.

There was evidence to support the position of Torch. A year earlier, President Barack Obama closed the nuclear deal with Iran, opening Iran's path to a nuclear arsenal within a decade. There has never been a hostile American president to Israel ever. Out of his hostility, Obama also gave Europeans a backbone to promote boycott and marking Israeli products.

Alongside the slump in the relationship with the Obama administration and Europe, in February 2016, there was also evidence that our political situation was getting stronger. Israel, despite Obama, succeeded in reaching Russian President Vladimir Putin's agreements that allowed the IDF to prevent the transfer of intercepting missiles and other advanced systems to Hezbollah, including safeguarding its own interests in Syria at the expense of Iran and its protesters. Israel formed a front against Iran with the Sunni states Israel has built a close relationship with India in those days, and has improved its relations with China, Japan, Singapore, Hungary, Poland, Greece, Cyprus, African countries and the South, and has never had such relations with Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Oman. America.

And Obama didn't have the only job in America. By February 2016, all Republican presidential candidates have already pledged to repeal Obama's nuclear agreement and implement a wall-to-wall change in policy toward Israel. As Shimon ("New Middle East") Peres and Ehud ("Political Tsunami") shine before him, Lapid advocated the model of the handout as a basis for foreign policy. According to this model, Israel is a leper, whose existence depends on the mercy of the nations of the world - first and foremost Europeans and Americans. Because of this political emphasis, the Americans and Europeans expect Israel to hand over Judea and Samaria and half Jerusalem to the PLO, and alas, if we do not provide Arafat's heirs.

In the face of this approach, there is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's "sovereign Israel" approach. This approach means that Israel is responsible for itself. In order to advance its interests - and not its enemies - Israel must be strong and find a partnership - in economics, in politics, in security and in general. The stronger and more independent Israel is, the more partnership it will have and, in turn, will strengthen it. Today, when more than 40 heads of state land in Israel and embark on a long convoy, they will crown the victory of the sovereignty model over the kibbutz Hanavav model. The fact that while they are immigrating to Jerusalem, the prime ministers are planning to apply Israeli law in the Jordan Valley and the Northern Dead Sea in the coming weeks, only illustrates the wisdom of the sovereignty approach and its success.

It is very ironic and worrying that it was precisely this week that Lapid's boss, Benny Gantz, reached the Jordan Valley and said in practice that if he formed the next government, his intention was to re-adopt the handouts. When Gantz said, "After the elections, we will work to apply sovereignty over the Jordan Valley. We will do so in agreed national and in coordination with the international community" - he said he intended to give Europeans (after all, with the Trump administration already compliant) a veto on Israel's authority to advance its interests Its national.