Dave Smith

And he is a little more complicated than this, but at least publicly, the Rabin doctrine, which is what led to the Oslo Accords and the beginning of the peace process, supposedly intended on finding a two-state solution, was essentially Yitzhak Rabin was saying, look,

We're never going to be able to normalize relations with the Arab, the broader Arab world unless we solve the Palestinian conflict, because that's what the whole thing's over.

It's over the fact that after again, whoever you want to blame for all of this and there's blame on all sides.

So I'm not like saying it's as black and white as Israel was always wrong.

They did a lot of wrong stuff.

But regardless, at the end of the 67 war,

at the end of the Six-Day War, Israel took control of Gaza, East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and they've had it ever since.

And this became starting to be a real big problem.

Like, hey, what are you going to do here?

Look, it is one thing just again, removing morality and just talking about like the logistics of history.

It is one thing to ethnically cleanse a group.

It's another thing to claim them and occupy them indefinitely.

And that's especially very hard to do in the modern world when like everyone on this side of the enlightenment, the standard is like, well, I mean.

You can't just keep a bunch of people that don't have citizenship and voting rights and natural rights at all.

Eventually, by the 90s now, we're almost 30 years, 25 years into the occupation.

Yitzhak Rabin is like, yeah, we got to do something about this, man.

We got to come to some solution or the rest of the world is looking at us as occupiers and we're not going to be able to normalize relations with the Arab world.

Benjamin Netanyahu, who Yitzhak Rabin's wife, I believe still to this day, if she's still alive, blames him for his death.

Benjamin Netanyahu was railing against this and how this is a betrayal to the Jewish people.

He had all these rallies where they would hold coffins with Yitzhak Rabin's name on it.