Neither Yasser Arafat, nor Yitzhak Rabin were good people.

But the time following the Oslo accords represents the closest the Palestinians have had to any normalcy in their every day lives.

Both sides calling for an end to violence, some Israeli settlements recognised by Israel as illegal.

Netanyahu undid that step by reversing the decision on settlements, leading in no small part to Hamas breaking the peace and winning popularity by doing so.

Eventually winning elections over the PLO and then Netanyahu ceasing elections in Palestine.

Netanyahu and Hamas are two sides of the same coin, they support each other. But Israel is the only country with a democratic way to remove one of them.

If you look at the Northern Irish peace process you see problems on both sides but steps taken towards peace by both.

Rabin and Arafat took steps towards peace together and while praising either of them as a whole would be wrong due to their pasts, those steps are worthy of recognition.

Northern Ireland was a religious war too, caused by colonial intrusion and partition. That’s often forgotten underneath the nationalism of the UK and Ireland. The dynamics are not dissimilar.