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Rahm Emanuel

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

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.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

Not only has he lost world opinion for Israel, he's losing in the United States.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

So I can't, what he didn't do

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

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.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

He has never extended himself politically on the diplomatic front.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

Now, there's three chapters to Israel.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

There's one, which was Egypt, Jordan, and the Abraham Accords making peace with stable governments and parties.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

Second was unilateral decisions on Lebanon and Gaza that gave you Hamas and Hezbollah.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

And then third, the divorce attempt in the West Bank.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

And now what they're doing, which is violence.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

Even one of the leading settler voices, the violence that's being created by settlers is destroying Israel.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

And the leadership of the IDF, my criticism is no different than elements of the IDF.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

So what Israel is no more secure having gone from 40,000 Gazans dead to 70,000.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

It was violence for the sake of violence with no political strategy.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

The difference between Oslo, and I want to say

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

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.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

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.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

Mm-hmm.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

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.

Making Sense with Sam Harris
#470 โ€” Democrats at a Crossroads

They're heads and tails of the same coin and too extreme.