Yitzhak Rabin

He is British by birth.

He grew up to become a negotiator for Israel under Prime Minister Yitzhak, uh, Yitzhak Rabin and Ehud Barak during the Oslo peace process of the 1990s.

He later helped to form the liberal Zionist group, J Street, and is currently president of gru- of the group called the US Middle East Peace Project.

He has become a leading critic of the Israeli government that he used to work for.

If the US is serious about that, I can give you a list of things, starting with what the UK government did, but there's many, many more that they could enact to make sure that the existing annexation is reversed and it doesn't go any further.

Well, as usual, when we discuss this topic, we will not solve the Middle East today.

But for today, we thank Daniel Levy, who was a negotiator for Israel under Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Ehud Barak during the Oslo peace process of the '90s.

He later helped to form the liberal Zionist group J Street, and is currently president of the group called the US Middle East Project.

This was Belisarius' first victory in his invasion of North Africa and kicked off his campaign to restore the western Mediterranean to imperial control.

On September 13, 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chair Yasser Arafat signed the Oslo One Accord in Washington, D.C. Oslo One established a Palestinian government of sorts, the Palestinian Authority, and included provisions for the eventual withdrawal of Israeli forces from the occupied territories and economic cooperation between the Israelis and Palestinians." It was supposed to be an interim agreement, but you can see how that went.

Moving on to the news, we start in the Middle East with Lebanon, where Reuters reported on Sunday that the Israeli and Lebanese governments will hold their next round of U.S.-brokered negotiations in Rome next month.

There doesn't appear to be any more specificity as to the date than that.

And you bracket that event with a big hopeful development.

30 years earlier, September 1993, on the White House lawn, Bill Clinton proudly hosted Israel's leaders, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, who signed the Oslo Accords with the PLO leader, Yasser Arafat, who was thought to be putting aside his terrorist past to negotiate for Palestinian independence.

The Oslo Accords, a first step.

So Mark Schulman, what made you think of these two events as historical bookends? The terror of October 7th and the Gaza war that followed, But starting in 1993 with the apparently positive event, Oslo.

It wasn't recognized by everyone as perfect.

And as you said, on the Palestinian side, radicals were trying to upset the process.

But on the Israeli side too, November 1995, prime minister yitzhak rabin is assassinated by a jew in tel aviv so you know between hope and fear your title we already got into fear and violence even within

israel the basic problem that exists in the middle east and between us these days israel and the palestinians is the extremists amongst us on both sides have never been willing to compromise.

At the same time, the head of Israel's own intelligence service, Mossad, agreed with the U.S. assessment and told McNamara there was no differences between the U.S. and the interpretation, confirming that the Israeli body that is literally tasked with assessing such situations knew that Israel was not in any danger in 1967.

You also had Yitzhak Rabin, then a general, acknowledging that Nasser's concentrations were defensive in character and that the Israeli leadership at the time of the war knew this, an assessment he shared with his fellow Israeli generals such as Iser Wiseman, the commander of the Air Force, who also argued that Israel was not in any danger.

But the most damning admission of Israeli guilt comes from the sitting Israeli prime minister at the time of the Six-Day War, Levi Eshkol, who outright admitted that he didn't think Nasser was trying to wage war, only to immediately switch gears and help invent a fake story claiming Egypt attacked first so Israel would appear to be the victim in the fog of war and the UN wouldn't force a ceasefire.

Then, once Israel had achieved its military objectives, Eshkol and his government abandoned that lie.

into being the enemies of the United States of America.

It was a policy that was conceived in the Yitzhak Rabin government.

And then number two on the list was the Israeli occupation of Palestine and along with their war in Lebanon, which they had occupied for 20 years up

until that

We don't have a good partner to work with.

well that's not true you had plenty of people you could have worked with including makhmud abbas but you chose not to but the but the thing is the but what is true is the united states doesn't have a reasonable partner to work with in israel and that's why we should cut them off we don't there are no like i mean manaka bagans or you know even yitzhak rabin's there's no one like who's somewhat level-headed that you can talk to over there I mean, and that's why we should cut them off.

Yeah, but they realize they don't have to be level-headed.

Right.