Efrat Mayor Oded Revivi struck a more conciliatory tone following the International Criminal Court's decision to investigate Israel for alleged war crimes than other Israeli critics of the move.
"I do not join shouts of anti-Semitism, I am not afraid because I know the truth. Representatives of The Hague are invited to Efrat, to the sukkah at my home where Palestinians and Jews have sat together. They are invited to meet Palestinians whose lives have been saved by Jewish doctors. They are welcome to shop with me at the Gush Junction alongside Jews and Palestinians. My door is open to them so that they can see with their own eyes that apartheid and similar concepts are not consistent with our reality. They are invited so that once and for all they will tell the storytellers and instigators in English in Hebrew and in Arabic that they are impressed. As a Jew, a settler, a lieutenant colonel in the reserves, and a lawyer, I invite the representatives of the court in The Hague to Efrat,” Revivi said.