Rachel Shabi : Le très présentable Yair Lapid est juste ce qu’il fallait à la « communauté internationale » (et à un Akiva Eldar probablement désespéré) pour revendiquer une reprise du « processus de paix ». ▻http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/comment/israel-picks-celebrity-over-substance-in-a-status-quo-election
Now, as the horse-trading over a coalition commences, the danger is that Mr Lapid - especially if he becomes foreign minister - will be the charismatic, friendly face of a hard-right, settler-friendly government. Mr Netanyahu could continue to keep the Palestinian issue in deep freeze, with Mr Lapid making all the right noises to the international community.
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The Israeli journalist Akiva Eldar, writing in Al Monitor, sees in the centrist votes, however splintered, a “positive message to our neighbours”, he says. “Bibi [Netanyahu] is not Israel … the game is not over.” Eldar holds that election results show that Israelis aren’t buying Mr Netanyahu’s message - and that the region should communicate directly with the Israeli public, bypassing leaders. “Israelis are open to other things, to trying something new,” he says. “This is the time for Arab countries to say ’We are willing to talk to you’.”
Pour rappel : ▻http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/yair-lapid-jerusalem-belongs-only-to-the-people-of-israel-1.410642
Yair Lapid: Jerusalem belongs only to the people of Israel
