Rahm Emanuel
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And as somebody that participated in both Oslo Accords for President Clinton, the Y Plantation Agreement, the agreement in Aqaba between Israel and the state of Georgia, in all those processes, he has isolated the state of Israel.
Not only has he lost world opinion for Israel, he's losing in the United States.
So I can't, what he didn't do
is, you know, as Yitzhak Rabin famously said, you make peace like there's no terror, and you fight terror like there's no peace.
He has never extended himself politically on the diplomatic front.
Now, there's three chapters to Israel.
There's one, which was Egypt, Jordan, and the Abraham Accords making peace with stable governments and parties.
Second was unilateral decisions on Lebanon and Gaza that gave you Hamas and Hezbollah.
And then third, the divorce attempt in the West Bank.
And now what they're doing, which is violence.
Even one of the leading settler voices, the violence that's being created by settlers is destroying Israel.
And the leadership of the IDF, my criticism is no different than elements of the IDF.
So what Israel is no more secure having gone from 40,000 Gazans dead to 70,000.
It was violence for the sake of violence with no political strategy.
The difference between Oslo, and I want to say
I understand the hardened heart that if you agree at Oslo to peace in a two-state solution and you have buses blowing up in Dizengoff and now parts of Tel Aviv and parts of Jerusalem, your heart will get hard.
But the choices are more violence or what you have now, which is Arab countries saying, okay, we're going to reform the Palestinians, give you a real partner for real peace.
Mm-hmm.
Where we were in the infant days of 93, 94, 95, and even 2000 when President Clinton with Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat tried at Camp David to get a final agreement, there will never be a river to the sea as the Palestinians advocate, and there will never be a greater Israel as elements of this prime minister's government try to advocate.
They're heads and tails of the same coin and too extreme.