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“‎Vis-‎à-vis the US Israel should adopt a much smarter, effective and flexible foreign policy than it has today. The Americans understand that Israel has its own interests and that we will never bow to [the Americans]. They just don’t understand why this policy has to involve our insulting them, solely with the aim of accruing political gain here in Israel.”

(Yair Lapid, Chairman of Yesh Atid, speaking at the 16th International Conference on Counter-Terrorism held at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, 12/09/2016)