Dave Smith
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This was before he was killed.
Then a Netanyahu fan murdered Yitzhak Rabin.
So then Netanyahu comes in a few years later in 1996.
And the whole Netanyahu doctrine, the clean break to the Oslo Accords, to all of this, was always that he goes, no, no, no, no.
Yitzhak Rabin had it all wrong.
He said, you got to normalize relations with, he said, you got to give the Palestinians a two-state solution so you can normalize relations with the broader Arab world.
But what we're just going to do, right, is use the U.S.
to topple the regimes we don't like in the broader world.
Like,
Oh, we can't normalize relations with Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi and Bashar al-Assad Well, guess what?
None of them exist anymore.
I mean Bashar al-assad does but not in power And the other two are not on this earth anymore.
So hey problem solved right and so like the the
The, excuse me, the Abraham Accords were in many ways like the culmination of that strategy.
It was letting the Palestinians know, listen, there's no Oslo.
There's no, we're not even saying like, hey, maybe in five to 10 years you can have your own state.
Maybe in 20 years you can have your own state.
Maybe your grandkids can.
They're going, no.
It's over.