LITERATURE

For the past two decades, Dr. Aaron David Miller served at the U.S. State Department as an advisor to six Secretaries of State. He helped formulate U.S. policy on the Middle East and the Arab-Israel peace process, most recently as the Senior Advisor for Arab-Israeli Negotiations. He also served as the Deputy Special Middle East Coordinator for Arab-Israeli Negotiations.

His critically-acclaimed book The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace is an extraordinary account of twenty years on the front lines of Arab-Israeli peacemaking. Dr. Miller has been featured on CNN, The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, FOX News, The NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, and the Charlie Rose show on PBS. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and The International Herald Tribune.

In this extraordinary account of twenty years on the front lines of Arab-Israeli peacemaking, career diplomat Miller provides an impressively candid appraisal of Middle East peace efforts. Drawing from his extensive experience and 160 interviews with presidents, advisers and negotiators, he apportions censure and praise with an even hand, sparing not even his failures or those of his colleagues. Miller evinces genuine compassion for both sides in the conflict (stressing that Americans cannot fully understand the life-and-death stakes in the struggle between Israelis and Palestinians), while maintaining a detachment that allows him to draw hard conclusions.

This event is co-sponsored by the Israel Center of the Jewish Community Federation