Enormously disappointing decision by @AOC to withdraw from @PeaceNowUS Rabin event. There is no such thing as a peacemaker without war, which is inherently nasty and blood-soaked. There is no such thing as peace without complexity and compromise. This sends a terrible message.

Furthermore, at a time when Rabin’s peacemaking legacy is under constant assault in Israel, this will be seen by Israelis as a statement that progressives will view Israel as illegitimate no matter what they do. Such a harmful decision in so many respects.

If you can’t recognize and honor the Israeli PM who recognized the PLO, ceded Israeli sovereignty for the first time in parts of the West Bank, and signed a peace treaty with Jordan, and was then killed for it, then there is not one Israeli leader who has ever met your standard