Defense Minister Bnei Gantz warned members of his faction this week of a "Jewish state between Hadera and Gedera."
He fears, he says, that a non-Jewish majority has been formed in the Galilee and the Negev.
Ganz read a viral WhatsApp message, in which someone is proud of taking over large areas of the country, and pushing the Jews' feet.
Ganz's conclusion is to increase governance and aid to the Arab sector.
His solutions are positive, but it is difficult to understand what the connection is between them and his warning.
As for the warning itself - it is also incomprehensible.
Even if it is true that King Abdullah I wanted in the Negev, and even if it was true that this was Count Brandt's proposal, even then, in the late 1940s and 1950s, it was not a real threat, especially today.
No factor will take the Negev and the Galilee from Israel.
The real problem is the danger that a Jewish minority will control, directly and indirectly, a Palestinian majority.
This situation will run counter to the Zionist vision and the basic democratic values that Israel is proud of, and rightly so.
Ganz warns that Israel will be pushed to the limits of the UN partition resolution of 1947, but whoever fears it must do everything, but everything, to reach an agreed border based on the 1967 border, with mutual amendments, before becoming a minority west of the Jordan.
Personally, I believe that the preferred way is to determine the border within a confederation between two countries, which can prevent the need to evacuate the Israelis who will be found east of the border, but I will bless everything that will lead to the border between us.
A sovereign state, which grants equality to its citizens, is not allowed to use terms that characterized the heroic Zionist effort before the establishment of the state, and the first decades of Israel regarding the "Judaization of the Galilee" or the Judaization of other regions in the country.
In retrospect, it was a combination of discrimination and ineffectiveness.
A Zionist leader who wants to ensure a stable Jewish majority in Israel, along with ensuring full equality for the large Arab minority among us, will not be able to do so with the help of the solutions proposed by the Minister of Defense.
A distinction must be made between the governance problem that needs to be addressed, preferably one hour earlier, and the demographic issue, which will not be resolved by a civil transfer from here to there within Israeli sovereignty.
Ganz had to be the arrowhead in his government, to warn against the childish and dangerous policy of refraining from meeting with the Palestinian leadership, and refraining from any attempt to reach an agreement with it.
Inviting President Mahmoud Abbas to his home in Rosh HaAyin was an important, but only symbolic, act.
Instead of fighting the prime minister for credit and complaining to him about not mentioning him properly in his speeches, Gantz should try to persuade Bennett to stop the boomerang policy of fleeing a political solution and meeting with the Palestinian leader committed to peace.
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