"Lapid is taking us back twenty years"
: The political system is in a frenzy after the prime minister's entourage announced that in his speech at the UN assembly he will present a political vision that will call for the establishment of a Palestinian state. According to those close to him, Lapid will emphasize that the establishment of a Palestinian state cannot come at the expense of Israel's security. However, Lapid believes that negotiations should be opened with the Palestinians on the contents of the agreement.
Lapid's partner in the center-left bloc, the chairman of Meretz Zehava Galon, supported the chairman of Yesh Atid and congratulated him on the move.
"I call on the Prime Minister - go another step forward, and meet with Abu Mazen at the UN assembly."
Congratulating Prime Minister Lapid.
Millions of Israelis and Palestinians are waiting for a political horizon that will put an end to the cycle of bloodshed.
I call on the Prime Minister - go one step further, and meet with Abu Mazen at the UN Assembly.
— Zehava Galon (@zehavagalon) September 21, 2022
On the other hand, the more right-wing parts of the government chose not to back their prime minister and attacked him for his intention to announce his political plan.
One of the senior partners in the government, the Minister of Justice, tweeted: "Establishing a terrorist state in Judea and Samaria will endanger Israel's security. The majority of the people in Israel and their representatives will not allow this to happen."
The establishment of a terrorist state in Judea and Samaria will endanger Israel's security.
The majority of the people in Israel and their representatives will not allow this to happen.
— Gideon Sa'ar |
Gideon Saar (@gidonsaar) September 21, 2022
Sa'ar against Lapid: "Establishing a Palestinian state will endanger Israel's security", photo: Elad Gutman, Oren Ben Hakon
The Minister of Justice, Ayelet Shaked, also chose to oppose Lapid's expected speech and the intention to return to a political process based on the two-state solution.
"The Prime Minister of the Transitional Government Lapid has no public legitimacy to entangle Israel with statements that will cause damage to the country" she tweeted.
The Prime Minister of the transitional government, Lapid, has no public legitimacy to entangle Israel with statements that will cause damage to the country.
Lapid represents only himself in this statement and not the government.
A Palestinian state is dangerous to the state of Israel.
— Ayelet Shaked (@Ayelet__Shaked) September 21, 2022
Among the opposition parties, Lapid's announcement was attacked even before he gave his speech.
The chairman of Religious Zionism, Bezalalel Smotrich, claimed that returning the Palestinian issue to the agenda would bring pressure on Israel: "After years in which the right-wing managed to remove the folly of the Palestinian state from the agenda and make Abu Mazen an irrelevant figure in the world, Gantz last year brought back the Abu Mazen to center stage.
And now Lapid irresponsibly takes us back twenty years and invites international pressure on Israel to promote a step that is nothing less than the suicide of the State of Israel.
Even before this bad government was established, we warned that it would bring us back to the Oslo track."
After years in which the right-wing succeeded in removing the folly of the Palestinian state from the agenda and making Abu Mazen an irrelevant figure in the world, Gantz and Lapid are leading a dangerous process that brings this deviant idea back to the table.
Gantz brought Abu Mazen back to center stage last year,>>> pic.twitter.com/R6IcL8Anhf
— Bezalel Smotrich (@bezalelsm) September 21, 2022
Smotrich was also joined by his senior partner, Itamar Ben Gabir.
"In the midst of an intifada that is unfolding before our eyes, Lapid chooses, as is his custom, to continue awarding prizes to terrorism - and now pulls out of the closet and returns this delusional idea to the agenda" he asserted.
"Lapid must be replaced as soon as possible, along with his failed defense minister Gantz."
The Likud party also joined Smotrich's attack against Lapid's intention to announce his political plan.
"After Lapid established the first Israeli-Arab government, now he wants to establish a Palestinian state on the border of Kfar Saba, Netanya, and Israel. For years, Netanyahu managed to remove the Palestinian issue from the world agenda, and Lapid brought Abu Mazen back to the front of the stage in less than a year." .
"On the altar of hatred, populism, ignorance and lack of ideology, Lapid sacrifices the Land of Israel, and brings the great danger of the Palestinian state back to the forefront," warned MK Shlomo Karai. And forever."
Like him, party member Danny Danon, Israel's former ambassador to the United Nations, claimed that returning to the negotiating table with the Palestinians would harm Israel politically.
For years we have worked hard to remove from the agenda the dangerous idea of a Palestinian state at the heart of the State of Israel.
And we succeeded.
We brought peace with Arab countries regardless of the Palestinian issue.
Lapid in one speech tomorrow may set us back a decade.
Israel has no future with Lapid.
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— Danny Danon 🇮🇱 Danny Danon (@dannydanon) September 21, 2022
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