US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived at the Munich Security Conference with good news and bad news: The good news is that the United States is not punishing Defense Minister Ya’alon for calling him “messianic.” The bad news is that it won’t help us if the world decides that we are to blame for the failure of the negotiations with the Palestinians and responds with an aggressive boycott.

The Munich Security Conference convenes every year for the past 50 years, bringing together hundreds of leaders from around the world who discuss policy and security issues in open and closed forum. In recent years it is considered one of the most important diplomatic and security events in the world, because among other things it provides a rare opportunity for leaders from enemy countries to consult secretly in the corridor of the hotel it takes place in.

Israel sent to the conference, which opened over the weekend, a delegation including Defense Minister Moshe (Bogie) Ya’alon, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and the national security advisor at the Prime Minister’s Office, Yossi Cohen. They were joined in Munich by former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, former National Security Advisor Dr. Uzi Arad and many from the intelligence community.

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