Lapid's speech
noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 03 Jul 10:00 AM
Here is the text of Yair Lapid's first speech as new Israeli prime minister. It is a good one.
I want to start by thanking the 13th Prime Minister of the State of Israel, Naftali Bennett. For your decency, for your friendship and for leading the government this past year to economic and security achievements not seen here for years. A special thank you for allowing the citizens of Israel to see this week an orderly transition between people who keep agreements and believe in one another.
The State of Israel is bigger than all of us. More important than any of us. It was here before us, and will be here long after us. It doesn't belong only to us. It belongs to those who dreamed of it for thousands of years in the Diaspora, and also to those yet to be born, to future generations.
For them and for us, we must choose the common good; that which unites us. There will always be disagreements, the question is how we manage them, and how we make sure they don't manage us.
Disagreement isn't necessarily a bad thing so long as it doesn't undermine the stability of the government and damage our internal resilience. So long as we remember that we all have the same goal: a Jewish, democratic, liberal, big, strong, advanced, and prosperous Israel.
The deep Israeli truth is that on most of the truly important topics – we believe in the same things.
We believe that Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people. Its establishment didn't begin in 1948, but rather on the day Yehoshua Bin...Read More
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