It has just ended with the crash of a nation-building project, improving the economy, security and democracy in a terrorist state.
For one thing there was a consensus about the failed project that lasted twenty years: the great power in the world together with its developed allies are unable to enforce or develop such a project in the third world, certainly not in a Muslim country.
Intention as everyone understands Afghanistan.
Now Foreign Minister Yair Lapid is in fact presenting an economic-for-security plan for the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
In principle this is a repetition of the same concept.
In the intoxicating and lying days of the disengagement in 2005, Shimon Peres and James Wolfenson dreamed of something similar.
So did Ebal Giladi and his sages.
The end is known.
"Rounds of violence," as the foreign minister for some reason calls the missile attacks and terrorist activity in Gaza.
It should be said immediately that there is one positive aspect to the Torch-Bennett program;
Minister Lapid says that Bennett and Ganz are up to date and support his plan.
If the State of Israel is forced to go to another major campaign in Gaza, then political and diplomatic preparation for the military move is required.
Therefore, the publication of Lapid's plan is a positive initiative.
According to Lapid, the public needs to know that "we have turned every stone."
A phrase taken from the lexicon of one of the experts in the collapse of the security order, Ehud Barak.
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid presents his plan to rehabilitate the Gaza Strip // Photo: Go Live Broadcasts
There are some serious points in the plan's intentions that light red lights: In the second phase, the Palestinian Authority will be involved as an executive and supervisory body, and it will be anchored in the Security Council decision.
Elsewhere the phrase is said, "If Hamas accepts the terms of the quartet."
I wonder how many of the political reporters still remember what the quartet is.
This is the political disaster from which Arik Sharon fled to the disengagement.
And on top of everything, the safe passage is resurrected like a monster from a horror movie.
It is referred to by Lapid as a "transportation project for the connection between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank."
A national intellectual warned in a closed forum, a few months ago, that the Bennett Lapid government is going for a combination of a war in Gaza and a plan for safe passage.
War, seems logical.
But the safe passage?
Forced!
