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Some Western Leaders "Divorced from Reality" on Palestinians, Iran
(JNS-Israel Hayom) Israel Kasnett - Victoria Coates, a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy and former U.S. deputy national security adviser for Middle Eastern and North African Affairs, said she believes there is a "disconnect" within European and the U.S. governments. "They think they can have some kind of diplomatic relationship with this terrorist rogue regime. It's completely divorced from reality," she said. Coates said the previous administration "initiated a fundamental shift," seeing Israel as "the key positive in the U.S. engagement with the Middle East, rather than an irritant. That's what changed the game. And it changed it in terms of our Arab allies because it clarified for them what our position was. That's what created an opportunity to reach the Abraham Accords." "You can't turn the clock back. The Arabs have moved on. They aren't giving the Palestinians a veto over their policy towards the region. If we try to force the Arabs to try to prioritize the Palestinian issue over their economic recovery from the pandemic, for example, we aren't going to get very far."