Yair Golan claims to present to the Israeli public a concept of national security that should be an alternative to the failures of the current government’s conduct. It has positive parts, those that concern the cessation of fighting in Gaza and building preparedness for the Iranian threat. However, it fails miserably in understanding the security reality vis-à-vis the Palestinians, and in the end will also fail in changing the political reality.
Throughout the years of his rule, Netanyahu accurately diagnosed the primal fear of the Israeli public from promoting permanent solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The solution offered by the leftist camp, of a territorial compromise and the establishment of a Palestinian state, has raised fears of retreating to indefensible bordersfrom the absence of a Palestinian leadership that would stabilize the state that would be established, and from widespread violence that could arise due to the massive evacuation of settlements.