The Key Handover Trap!

In good faith, or with ill intent, with the naivety of the world, or the ignorance of the ignorant, some analysts and populist politicians are once again calling on the Authority to hand over the keys to its jailer and those who enact its execution laws, preparing the ground to undermine it, dry up its sources, and bypass its time. There is no greater service to Smotrich than this diabolical recipe, which would spread chaos, for the architect of the decisive plan loves a vacuum and wishes for it to remove the legal cover represented by the Authority, which none of the unregulated and uncommitted organizations and factions possess, and which seek to garner likes to maintain what remains of their supporters, after their popularity has eroded, their legitimacy has become outdated, and people have abandoned them. The Authority, despite its weakness and hardening arteries, represents the "legal personality" in the United Nations, the International Criminal Court, and all international organizations... and for these reasons, it is being demonized. The battle today is not about getting rid of the burden of the Authority, but about transforming this burden into a tool for political and legal engagement. The keys that some demand be thrown in the face of the jailer are the very ones that lock the doors against the legitimization of settlements, and handing them over is not a cry of protest, as much as it is an evacuation of the last official barricades of confrontation before full exposure to the comprehensive decisive action that those who salivate at its occurrence and rub their fingers to hasten its happening await. Political machinations, nor the impulses of revenge and factional gloating over the Authority and its mistakes, even if they were like the foam of the sea, should not push these factions to deny the importance of its existence and wish for its demise, because no one will be immune from the dangers and repercussions of its overthrow. Handing over the keys carries only one meaning: going along with Netanyahu, Smotrich, and Ben Gvir in their plans, and meeting them at their choices.