What Next in Gaza?
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Aaron David Miller, senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, former State Department advisor on the Middle East, and the author of several books, including The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace (Bantam, 2008), talks about the current state of ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas and the best pathways to peace in the region. Plus, he reacts to President Biden's live remarks on the campus protests.
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| 0:16.9 | Brian Lear on WNY. So while campus protests and police involvement are the big story now in this country, negotiations for a cease fire in Gaza and a longer term peace are going on in the region. |
| 0:26.0 | We'll talk now to Aaron David Miller, who worked for the US government as a Middle East peace |
| 0:30.4 | negotiator during the Oslo peace process of the 90s and overall for 25 years for the State |
| 0:36.2 | Department as an analyst negotiator and historian. |
| 0:39.8 | He's the author of books including The Much Too promised land America's elusive search for Arab |
| 0:45.9 | Israeli peace. |
| 0:47.5 | It says a lot that that book was published in 2008 and here we still are. |
| 0:53.0 | Aaron David Miller is currently a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for |
| 0:56.4 | International Peace. |
| 0:57.8 | Aaron, thanks so much for giving us some time today. |
| 1:00.0 | Welcome to WNYC. |
| 1:01.8 | Brian, it's great to be back with you. |
| 1:04.1 | Let's start with negotiations for a short-term ceasefire |
| 1:07.3 | plus hostage and prisoner exchange. |
| 1:09.8 | I see that Secretary of State Anthony Blenkin |
| 1:12.1 | is in the region trying to finalize a deal, and he says |
| 1:15.0 | Israel has put what he calls a very generous offer on the table to Hamas. |
| 1:20.3 | Could you list the main points of that proposal as you understand them? |
| 1:24.0 | Yeah, by and large, and I think I need to say at the outset, Brian, that this is one of the most curious and |
| 1:30.6 | opaque negotiations, certainly that I've ever experienced. |
| 1:36.0 | The principal Palestinian decision-maker, Yachis-Nwar, is ensconced somewhere meters below ground in a tunnel most likely below Rafa |
| 1:46.0 | or Han Yunus. There's no trust between Israel and Hamas two entities which are |
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