Lapid rejects Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution

The Saudi Solution, in distinct contrast to the United Nations Solution, offers Israel the following concessions before negotiations are even commenced on implementing the proposal:

• Jerusalem will be the capitol of Israel only
• No new State will be created between Israel and Jordan
• The right of return by Palestinian Arabs to Israel will be abandoned
• Jewish sovereignty in part of Judea and Samaria (West Bank) will be recognised for the first time in 3000 years
• Saudi Peace proposals made in 1981 and 2002 that were unacceptable to Israel will be superseded.P

The universal silence by Israeli politicians on the Saudi Solution since its publication almost four months ago is shameful.

One cannot expect every Israeli politician to embrace the Saudi Solution. They should publicly state their opposition.

But is there not one Israeli politician - Jew or Arab – other than Lapid, prepared to express his own opinion on conducting negotiations to determine if agreement can be reached on the Saudi Solutions' groundbreaking proposals?

In particular why have the leaders of sixteen of the seventeen major Israeli political parties contesting the elections - Netanyahu, Gantz, Sa'ar, Smotrich, Ben-Gvir, Deri, Litzman, Gafni, Shehadeh,Odeh, Tibi, Michaeli, Galon, Abbas, Shaked, Liberman and Hendel - refused to comment on the Saudi Solution since its publication?

Hopefully these leaders - like Lapid - will break their silence on the Saudi Solution well before November 1.

Leaders lead from the front, not cower and huddle silently together behind the voters whose votes they seek.