An agreement with the PA, he claimed, would prevent Israel from being „internationally isolated“, will increase personal safety, will help the economy „and above all – will remove from above our heads the threat of becoming a bi-national state, the only meaning of which is the end of Israel’s existence as a Jewish state and the elimination of Zionism.”

Lapid continued, “In order to resume negotiations, we need to stop discussing the question of what the Palestinians want, or what kind of brokers the Americans are, and focus on another, more important question: What do we want?“