The conversation between Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and the director general of his office, Alon Ushpiz, lasted almost two hours yesterday. The two reiterated the warning that in 2022 the international community would denounce Israel as an apartheid state. It is precisely in this year that this danger is suddenly clear and immediate.
After all, the blackout campaigns and the denial of legitimacy against Israel have been going on for two decades.
In the most difficult years of the Obama-Netanyahu conflict, Israel succeeded.
Today, the government enjoys the embrace of the West, on the contrary, Lapid himself is proud of the political momentum he says he has created and the ties he claims he has restored.
If everything is so good, how is he threatening in the blackest scenario imaginable ?!
Something here does not settle.
But even if we assume for a moment that the warning is in place and that the danger is indeed tangible, there are two obvious actions that the Secretary of State can take to curb it.
First, it must turn to European countries, and demand the cessation of funding.
For the "Israel Apartheid State" campaign was not born from the air.
The European Union and European countries fund it generously in Israel and abroad. Without the money, it would not have happened. Instead of chasing the flames, it would be better to turn off the oil tap.
Second, Lapid makes a serious mistake in raising the issue to the top of the headlines.
The very act of public speaking plays into the hands of the blackers.
The Palestinians at an unprecedented low.
No one cares about them.
It is a big mistake to think that a dialogue with Abu Mazen will mitigate the danger in any way.
The probing of the Palestinian wound will only intensify the delegitimization.
The Avraham agreements, which Lapid rightly longs to continue, are empirical proof that contacts with the Palestinians are not necessary to upgrade Israel's status in the world.
On the contrary.
Palestinian Authority Chairman Abu Mazen, Photo: AFP
The Palestinians also have no relevance to the apartheid campaign.
The argument in general refers to what is happening within the territories of small Israel, in the Arab sector, in the mixed cities and in the entire area "between the sea and the Jordan," as stated in publications of the extreme left.
Talks with Abu Mazen did not and will not prevent HRW's next report on Ramla or Lod.
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