If AOC shouldn& #39;t associate with APN/Yitzhak Rabin because Rabin was responsible for oppressing Palestinians, why should anyone talk to Hamas or the PLO? They& #39;ve been involved in terrible acts of terrorism. Answer: you don& #39;t make peace with your friends.

It& #39;s the Middle East, everyone who is coming to the table to talk to eachother has done terrible things. That& #39;s the entire point. If everyone was nice to eachother and had no flaws, there& #39;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& #39;s safe space philosophy isn& #39;t real life -- you can& #39;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& #39;t allowed to take place, good luck.