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If AOC shouldn't associate with APN/Yitzhak Rabin because Rabin was responsible for oppressing Palestinians, why should anyone talk to Hamas or the PLO? They've been involved in terrible acts of terrorism. Answer: you don't make peace with your friends.
It's the Middle East, everyone who is coming to the table to talk to eachother has done terrible things. That's the entire point. If everyone was nice to eachother and had no flaws, there'd already be peace. And this applies...to every other conflict in the world too?
Nixon sat down with Mao, Reagan sat down with Gorbachev, Mandela and De Klerk. Twitter's safe space philosophy isn't real life -- you can't just mute/block/ban your way to peace. Of course people who are in conflicts have to talk to eachother.
When I was still involved in DC think tanks I pushed pretty hard for normalizing the idea that America has to talk to Hamas. If you start expanding the circle of diplomacy that isn't allowed to take place, good luck.
