By: Itamar Eichner/ Yedioth Ahronoth

Yair Lapid, Israel's Prime Minister, will deliver his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly tonight, assuring that Israel must move forward with the two-state solution. This is the first time that an Israeli prime minister talks on the rostrum of the United Nations about such a political issue. However, Lapid will stress the risks of establishing the Palestinian state.

Some officials state that Lapid will stress in his speech that Israel will not take any risky steps that will threaten its security. From his point of view, separation from the Palestinians must be a part of a political vision based on the principle of power. Thus, he follows the Israeli Defense Minister, Benny Gantz, who said: “We should make peace with the Palestinians.”

Lapid's choice to talk about a two-state solution aims to provoke the center-left party, Meretz, and Israeli Labor Party to vote for it in the upcoming elections. Moreover, he will explain that Israel will not allow Iran to be a nuclear state and that it will ask no one for permission to fight Iran.

Not only that, but he will also ask the Middle East countries that haven't joined the Abraham Accords yet to join, in order to expand the peace circle. This is what Likud objected to, seeing Lapid's solution as handing over their lands to their enemies.