Assistant Director, IPF - NY

Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 12:27pm

As 2009 draws to a close, we are bombarded by the annual litany of commentary features recapping the year in Hollywood movies to the year in international conflict, and everything in between.

When it comes to the Middle East peace process, current conventional wisdom suggests the 2009 recap might go something like this:

US-Iran Negotiations: Simulation Exercise at INSS

Tuesday, December 29, 2009 - 9:45am

Ephraim Asculai, Emily B. Landau, and Tamar Malz-Ginzburg

INSS Insight No. 154, December 29, 2009

Despite the tendency to denote any simulation exercise on security issues a "war game," the recent simulation designed and held at INSS did not focus on the option of a military attack. Rather, it developed the scenario of a bilateral US-Iranian negotiation over Iran's nuclear program.

Aaron David Miller

Interviews with Malley, Miller & Lasensky on Arab-Israeli Diplomacy

By David Halperin

Assistant Director, IPF - NY

Thursday, August 20, 2009 - 1:14pm

In the past week I corresponded with three leading analysts - Rob Malley, Aaron David Miller and Scott Lasensky - who have provided some of the most high-profile analyses of the current state of the peace process and recommendations for the Obama administration's Mideast team.

How is the latest Israel-U.S. row different from any other?

By David Twersky

Writer on Israel, American Jewry and American politics

Wednesday, August 5, 2009 - 4:35pm

The debate between the US and Israel over Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem has a long and distinguished pedigree. Over time, it has been managed so that bi-lateral relations almost never reached a boiling point. While there were skirmishes during the Clinton administration - especially when Mr. Netanyahu was Prime Minister, and some tough language from Sec. Rice during the second Bush term, relations were never threatened as they are today.

The President and the Secretary

By Jeremy Pressman

Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Connecticut

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 - 12:09pm

In Aaron David Miller's "The Much Too Promised Land," he suggests that a U.S. secretary of state with the strong and clear backing of the president is successful at Arab-Israeli peacemaking. Take George H. W. Bush (41) and James Baker. In contrast, when participants can see gaps between the president and secretary a la George W. Bush (43) and Colin Powell, little progress happens.

Middle East Experts on the U.S. Role in Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process

By Israel Policy Forum, February 21, 2008

On February 7th the Israel Policy Forum assembled a team of prominent Middle East experts-Robert Malley, Aaron David Miller, Ambassador Edward S. Walker, Toni G. Verstandig-to brief journalists on the current status of U.S.-sponsored Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. The discussion was moderated by Steven L. Spiegel. Some of the discussion's remarks are included below.

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