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Source: https://www.jpost.com/annual-conference/article-854641
Dan Diker, Jason Greenblatt: Giving Arafat Nobel Prize Harmed Israel's Fight Against Terror
(Jerusalem Post) Dr. Dan Diker, president of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, told the Jerusalem Post conference in New York on Monday that the problematic nature of the Oslo Accords was "not because it offered a compromise solution, but because we actually inverted our own legitimacy with the PLO....We handed a Nobel Prize to Yasser Arafat, and Yasser Arafat then became the moral standard so that we could not act against terror because you were then acting against a Nobel Prize winner. The PLO and today the Hamas has become, in large part, in many circles, the new Israel." Jason Greenblatt, who served as Trump's special envoy for Middle East peace, said, "Let's understand why the Trump administration never used the words 'two-state solution.'...If a Palestinian state means that the Palestinians could attack Israel, how could you ever argue for a Palestinian state?" He added that President Trump's "strengthening of ties with the Arab countries only helps Israel."