Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: "the classical Israeli leadership test"

"Netanyahu passed the classic Israeli leadership test Sunday night: If
not everyone is pleased, it’s an indication he did the right thing".
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3731582,00.html
Netanyahu si guadagna il plauso senza riserve di un dei suoi critici
più feroci, Yair Lapid.
No turning back
PM Netanyahu’s words established Palestinian state Sunday night
Yair Lapid
God is not in the small details, but rather, in the big words, and the
moment the words “Palestinian state” came out of Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu’s reluctant mouth, we are in a different world.
“I am about to speak here courageously and honestly,” Netanyahu said,
and surprisingly he delivered. There was quite a bit of political
courage in the fact that he recognized the two-state vision Sunday
night, with the clear knowledge that he is about to be pounded by all
those people who brought him to power only three months ago.
And there was honesty in all the reservations he raised. One can
accept them or not, but at least there is no doubt that Netanyahu
believes himself. He did not try to circumvent, but rather, raised all
the points bothering every sane Israeli who does not put his hand in
the sand, one by one: Palestinian rejectionism, the incitement, Hamas’
rise in Gaza, and the right of return.
Netanyahu passed the classic Israeli leadership test Sunday night: If
not everyone is pleased, it’s an indication he did the right thing.
The Left will argue that his many reservations will bury his
recognition of the two-state vision; the Right will say that this
recognition marks the end of the Zionist dream; the Americans won’t
like the brief mention of the natural growth in the settlements. Yet
all of them are wrong. We did not see a burial ceremony yesterday, but
rather, the launch of a new product: Netanyahu 2009, the upgraded
model.
Words stronger than weapons
In 2003, the very same Netanyahu abstained in the vote on the same
principles he endorsed last night. The shock will come soon. The
coalition will be slammed and will engage in debates, the settlers
will protest, Netanyahu himself will have to explain himself to death,
yet he understands – or is supposed to understand – that there is no
turning back.
the person who chose to quote the Declaration of Independence in his
speech knows – or ought to know – that words shape reality more than
all weapons. The Palestinian state was established last night through
Netanyahu’s mouth, while the Greater State dream was once and for all
hurled beyond the Israeli fence. The delusional ones on the Right and
Left will play with it a little more, until it rusts and crumbles,
while we engage in a final battle for the terms.
His reservations – both the logical ones and the less logical ones –
will be placed on the negotiations table tomorrow and be attacked time
and again. We should hope that he will do a better job than his
predecessors, but we are starting from a whole new place. The
Palestinians will have a state. Time will tell what kind of state it
will be.

 not everyone is pleased, it’s an indication he did the right thing".
peccato che "not everyone" andrebbe cambiato con "nobody"