Aaron Miller's vision of the two-state solution

David Aaron Miller is one of two Jewish experts whose work continued for twenty years under four presidents, as envoys to resolve all the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. The second is Dennis Ross, meaning that each of them spent all those years entrusted with the same mission without their efforts advancing a single step.

This is why Miller's views in particular, and what he has come out of his long experience in charge of solving the Palestinian problem as a representative of American presidents, are gaining appeal among political think tanks.

There have been many meetings with him over the years, until the present time in 2023. Questions are asked to him, and he answers, drawing from his experience, vision, and advice.

Miller now combines membership in a number of centers specialized in political research, such as the Carnegie Center for International Peace, in addition to being director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, in addition to resorting to issues of specialized newspapers to poll his opinion on the subject of Israeli policy and its apparent and hidden intentions.

One of the titles of the meetings with him was “Progress in the Arab-Israeli conflict seems impossible.”

The questions asked to him varied, including: Are we on the verge of a mass expulsion of the Arab population from their lands? And a question about whether what we have seen in recent years is a limited diplomatic role for America to the point that America seemed to be absent, and other questions to which Miller’s answer was as follows: The two-state solution is heading towards a dead end, and it seems as if they are pushing the situation towards disintegration of the issue. Palestinian, meaning more like independence, and not real independence for Gaza under the administration of Hamas, and a Palestinian authority that administers the remaining 40% of the West Bank, and is dependent on Israel, while Israel occupies the remaining 60%, and imposes its control over Jerusalem.

Then he says: In the face of this situation, President Biden must respond boldly to the Netanyahu government, which is controlled by a determination to place the West Bank and Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty.

Then Miller says: It seems that the Biden government is trying to avoid involvement in this chaotic situation, although Biden must make it clear to Israel that his government will not deal with the policies of its minister Ben Gvir if he continues his racist policy.

In one of his answers to another question, he said: What we are seeing recently of Israeli politicians and ministers going to the Holy Mosque in Al-Aqsa Mosque is done in a way that indicates that the Israeli Ministry of National Security and its Minister Ben Gvir are determined to change the current situation and create a permanent Jewish presence in its place.

American writer Malcolm Kerr quotes Aaron Miller as believing that a diplomatic solution has become unattainable, under the title “My Eyes Don’t Lie.” In this regard, Kerr refers to an article previously published by Miller under the title “The End of Greatness: Why There Are No Great Presidents in America.” He published it in Foreign Policy magazine in 2014. Miller said this while answering a question: You participated in the Arab-Israeli peace negotiations in the governments of George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. Do you consider that these negotiations are dead? ?

His response was: I left that mission in 2003 in charge of American governments, and my analysis of the negotiations taking place today leads me to describe them with the phrase “they have died.” Since I left these negotiations, I have noticed that they have become negative and will not lead to any result.

In order to put the mission that David Miller carried out for twenty years in its complete and objective framework, what happened from the beginning when he was used, and with him Dennis Ross, took place after the closing of the page of the mediators who took responsibility for that case and they were members of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and they were known as Arabists, which is a term given to them. Because of their experience in the Arab region, their knowledge of the culture and traditions of its people, and all dimensions of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, and their endeavor to adhere to a neutral position. It is true that their page was closed after the assistance of Aaron Miller and Dennis Ross, but despite being Jewish, they made efforts to try to find a loophole in the impasse in front of the Palestinian solution, and their bias towards Israel was not exaggerated, unlike others who played this role after that, even if Miller was the most objective. Towards this thorny issue of Ross. In agreement with the Gulf