Israeli opposition leader and former prime minister Yair Lapid during a demonstration against justice reform in Israel. HAZEM BADER / AFP
The former prime minister, who for a time brought down Benjamin Netanyahu, also recalled his approval of a two-state solution.
Israel calls them “settlements“. “They are not settlements, because we have not occupied a Palestinian state because there has never been a Palestinian state», justified in an interview with LCI Yaïr Lapid, former prime minister and now leader of the opposition to Netanyahu’s government.
Invited on the set of Darius Rochebin, Yaïr Lapid, very critical of the policy of the Israeli government and in particular of the serious failures of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Hamas attack of October 7, was on the other hand more conciliatory on the question of Israeli settlements, a problem intrinsic to the irresolution of the conflict according to the UN, which estimated last February that they were a “hindrance» to peace.
“There is some confusion between colonies and installations. We are not colonials, we live on our own land, our biblical land“, affirmed Yaïr Lapid when asked about the illegality of these colonies. “As I said, the majority of Israelis and I support the two-state solution“, recalled the opposition leader, specifying that today, the priority issue to achieve this solution was the eradication of Hamas.
“The issue now is that we are fighting for our lives against a terrorist organization, an organization that is against the two-state solution“, explains Yaïr Lapid. The former Prime Minister and also former Minister of Finance has always maintained a fine line on the issue of settlements in the West Bank, however agreeing to name them as they are, as in an interview with the Figaro in 2013, and positioning itself against their funding.