Thread by @sfrantzman

You can never explain how the same people who say "we must engage with Iran, diplomacy is better than conflict"...also say when it comes to new Israel peace deals "it's not real peace" and mock or deride the deals and normalization...umm what happened to your love of 'engagement'

There is a chorus out there that talked "peace" for years...but every time there is peace...they are either silent or make snide, snarky, smarmy, negative, critical comments...because it was a peace lobby that was anti-peace...profited off conflict too often; hypocrisy.

There is also a kind of Stockholm syndrome of people who got used to Israel not having relations...normalization is the obvious minimum...every country in the world tends to enjoy this basic aspect...it's seventy years late actually. Should have happened years ago.

Also the silence you see in these same crowds over the messages of positive tolerance and coexistence from the new Abraham Accords...the same people who talk "coexistence" in the West...but then seem to adore the Tehran or Ankara regimes...ummm...they are hypocrites too.

I know what peace is...I covered three Gaza wars, I taught at Al-Quds University, I covered war and refugees and the hell of conflict all over the region; when there is silence and mocking of these new deals; it shows the true character of many. They opposed peace quietly.

And don't feed me this "it's authoritarian peace"...ummm Denmark and all these western democracies have relations with authoritarian regimes...have some advocated they cut those relations...no. So just Israel can't have relations...but every western country can? Hypocrisy.