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Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid.
Photo Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash 90
Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid slammed Economy Minister Naftali Bennett Sunday, and threatened to bring down the government if Bennett’s plan to annex Judea and Samaria is adopted. Lapid also called for a building freeze.
In addition, Lapid called for an Ariel Sharon-style flight from Judea and Samaria “in order to preserve Israel’s Jewish character.”
Lapid warned that “if a Palestinian state is not established alongside Israel, the Palestinians will come to us sooner or later, with full backing of the world’s nations, and tell us: ‘Since you don’t intend to give us our own state, at least allow us to become citizens.’”
But he did not reference demographic evidence that the Palestinian population in Judea and Samaria continued to decline in 2013, and refused to address the fact that neither the Arabs or the United Nations accept Israel’s unilaterally-drawn Gaza border. Despite Israel’s withdrawal, Palestinians and their supporters continue to describe the Gaza Strip as “occupied.”
In addition, Lapid failed to explain whether or not he had learned any lessons from the destruction of Gush Katif in 2005, or how he would prevent the security nightmare that plagues southern Israel – Israeli Civilians in Sderot and other Gaza border region communities have withstood nearly 10,000 rocket attacks from Gaza since the Gush Katif manoeuvre – from reaching other parts of the country, particularly Ben Gurion Airport, well within rocket distance of the Binyamin region of Samaria.
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& the idiot makes threats about toppling Israeli government if appeasement to the enemy is not made .
Annexations of Judea & Sanaria must be made – to hell with the pathetic fools of yesh atid !
Lapid is garbage and should be tossed out of the gov.
Never
Lapid is the torch of dearkness like his father who hated everything Jewish. Filthy swine and ocher Yisrael.
Never, shouldn’t everyone seriously consider how wrong the Gaza disengagement was.
Douce bag treasonous liberal weasel..
Lapisd is the enemy of Israel
Lapid- a self hating Jew- the kind that would collaborate with the enemy to save his tuchis while not caring what happened to friends or family.
There’s stupid and then there’s special stupid…
Get Lapid out of the Government! He’s out to destroy Israel! God will deal with him too.
Right Harvey!
Prove that you are worthy and will stop shooting at us, including all of the Iranian puppets you dupe. It is all about the money, how much is Abbas worth? Any where near that of the millions that Arafat died with per Forbes Magazine.
Hang the traitor and give his body to his mozzie mates
Get this man out of the gov ASAP!
Let him leave…please
It wont happen!