Aaron David Miller

They are galactic in scope.

So the notion that somehow you could leap forward and resolve these core issues in a way that would be acceptable

to Israelis and Palestinians with the shadow of October 7 looming large strikes me as a idea tethered to a galaxy far, far away rather than to the realities back here on planet Earth.

The 20-point plan is in essence a phased arrangement.

It has a phase one.

People acknowledge it as phase one.

There's even some talk about phase two or three, although there's no real operational detailed roadmap as to how to get from one phase to the other.

If you could get these two parties to actually identify an aspirational end state that they held in common or even to have an American president,

at some point, identify such an aspirational end state.

I may be one of the last humans on the planet to believe that the only solution to solving this problem is separation through negotiation.

Yes.

A two-state solution.

It's the only thing to me that answers all of the mail, demography, overlapping religious space, territory, the need for separation, particularly in the wake of October 7th.

But you can't – we can't even do that.

So all you need to govern in Israel is 60 plus 1 seats.

And this is a very coherent, cohesive Israeli coalition.

And even though it's a minority government, the two religious parties have now withdrawn over the conscription issue.

The fact that they want to get out of the army free card for most of their haredi, the ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students.

They also know that going into the wilderness now, with the anger of the Israeli public venting on them because their sons...

didn't serve, they're going to hang together, as will the two right-wing parties.