Finance Minister Yair Lapid delivered a scary speech on Wednesday. At the Institute of National Security Studies conference, Lapid warned that if we don't accept US Secretary of State John Kerry's framework for negotiations, the Europeans are going to take away our money.
Lapid claimed that Israel's economic future is dependent on surrendering Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria to the PLO. If we don't, he said, the EU will abrogate its economic association agreement with us. And such a move on Europe's part will cause serious harm to our economy.
...It took less than 10 minutes for Lapid's remarks to be exposed as utter nonsense.
| Lapid spend all his adult live working in TV---IMO, he's not really human. |
Might be a good thing for the EU to take its money away. Israel can stand on its own, particularly now that the off-shore natural gas fields are beginning to return in large quantities. Israel has energy, technology, hard-working and patriotic people, and a land that they can make produce (funny how the Paleos can't). Israel's exports would be hurt short term but Israel can market to others. And they've got all that NG -- is Europe really going to ignore that and continue to depend on Russia?
Let the world see that Israel doesn't need the EU, and then let the world ask whether anyone needs the EU. |
| Pooh. The EU might boycott Israel's wonderful produce, but not their cutting edge technology or the possibility of partnering with/acquiring Israeli companies. Germany isn't going to cut them off at all, at least so long as Angela Merkel is running things, and the current Dutch government made increased closeness to Israel a matter of public policy. |
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