A year ago I gave Yair Lapid
the benefit of the doubt.
Apparently, I was wrong. The opinions he expressed in his book Memories After My Death were his father’s alone.
From the Wall
Street Journal
Yet Hamas's return to the
Palestinian Authority has left some in the Israeli government saying for the
first time that they see signs of moderation among the Islamists, and that
negotiations with Hamas could one day become possible if it recognizes Israel.
"It's not like it didn't happen before," said Yair Lapid, a member of
Israel's security cabinet who also controls its second-largest party. "The
PLO used to be a terror organization."
Mr. Lapid says he is
currently opposed to any talks involving Hamas, which he considers a terrorist
group.
Mr. Lapid recalled a
phrase the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin used during his talks with the
Palestinians: "We negotiate for peace as if there is no terror, and fight
terror as if there is no peace."
The same simple question I
posed to Catherine Ashton I now pose to Yair Lapid
