Aaron David Miller
By Aaron David Miller
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Opinion Jared Kushner’s Jewishness Won’t Doom His Peace Plan. This Will.
In the fall of 1996, while in Israel as part of a small US team trying to negotiate an end to a particularly serious and violent crisis between Israelis and Palestinians, I learned that my mother’s cancer had progressed, and I returned home to be with her for those last precious days. Although neither religious…
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News Samuel Lewis, Man of Uncommon Judgment, Gone When We Need Him Most
Sam Lewis was my friend, my boss and my teacher through some tough and turbulent times, and taught me more about diplomacy than almost anyone. Sam, who died in his home in Virginia on March 10 at 83, was not just another career diplomat, especially when it came to Israel. After serving eight years as…
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News Perfect Storm: Wide Gaps, Weak Leaders, Elusive Peace
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s threat to withdraw from Palestinian Authority politics — an act that could have grave consequences should he make good on it — is only the tip of a large iceberg threatening to sink the very structure of Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking. For the first time since the Oslo process began 16 years ago,…
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Opinion Scrambled Electoral Eggs
Would-be peacemakers might want to wait before they start popping champagne corks in the wake of Kadima’s election victory. The outcome of the Israeli election has further complicated an already-muddled outlook for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Now, in addition to a Palestinian house divided against itself, we have a divided and dysfunctional Israeli house. Weak…
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Opinion Advice on the Arab-Israeli Front: Try Pursuing Peace, Just Don’t Fail
By January 20, President Barack Obama will, no doubt, have already received a tsunami of recommendations on what to do about the Arab-Israeli issue. At the risk of adding to the flood, let me offer up some observations gathered from almost 20 years of traveling the negotiator’s highway. Following this advice will not guarantee success,…
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Culture Aaron David Miller on ‘Jews and Power’
On May 18, Nextbook, the Jewish cultural organization, will present its second annual festival of ideas on the topic of “Jews and Power.” In advance of the event — which will feature, among others, Avivah Zornberg on political rebellion in the Bible, authors Shalom Auslander and Rebecca Goldstein on the authority and revolt of the…
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