Yair Lapid’s Future Party Has No Future
I usually don’t waste blog posts on things I consider a flash in the pan, but I couldn’t resist this one. You all know how much I hate hypocrisy and Yair Lapid displayed it in spades today. Haaretz tells us that the TV journalist who’s formed a new celebrity-driven centrist party, Yesh Atid (“There is a Future”), wanted to unveil his program regarding the Palestinian “problem.” So he chose to do it…in Ariel:Lapid said that he had decided to present his foreign policy platform to voters at the Ariel University Center, located in the West Bank settlement Ariel, because “there is no map on which Ariel isn’t a part of the state of Israel.”
So the guy who opposes the Occupation chose occupied Palestine as the site for unveiling his plan to solve the issue. Among the delightful things he said was that he wanted to “get rid of the Palestinians:”
Israel “must at last get rid of the Palestinians and put a fence between us,” he said, adding that “there will be no ‘new Middle East,’ but at least there won’t be three million Palestinians in Israeli territory.”It doesn’t appear he was advocating genocide or extermination. Maybe not even expulsion (though you never know). He just wanted to make them disappear with the snap of a finger because they’re, well, so damn inconvenient.