Sad but true – Peter
Few people have been involved in more American efforts to broker peace in the Middle East than Aaron David Miller. A veteran State Department negotiator, he worked on Arab-Israeli relations for 15 years, including the Oslo Accords under Bill Clinton, and then in the George W. Bush administration.
How, then, does he assess President Donald Trump’s achievement this week? Trump has clearly oversold it, he says, including some “awfully grandiose statements” about its place in the pantheon of global peacemaking.
“It is not a peace agreement,” Miller tells this masthead in Washington. “It is not the most important peace agreement in 3000 years. It comes nowhere close to rivalling the Egyptian-Israeli or Israeli-Jordanian peace treaties.”
But, Miller says: “It is an extraordinary moment, delivered by a president who has acted in ways that are quite unprecedented. It could … offer a road map to end the war in Gaza on terms that normal people would regard as an actual end of the conflict.”
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