Aaron David Miller

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And even though it's a minority government, the two religious parties have now withdrawn over the conscription issue.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

And with Trump's support, it is conceivable that Benjamin Netanyahu, already the longest governing prime minister in the history of the state, could win an election with a different government, right of center minus the extremists, two extremist parties.

Accountability, it's hard to believe.

But I don't see anything.

It'll take a government decision to appoint a state commission of inquiry.

The prime minister, Shin Bet, Mossad, DMI, the director of military intelligence, all of that.

There has to be some reckoning at a minimum.

Forget accountability.

To understand exactly why...

October 7th was possible and why the Israeli Defense Forces could not save during the first 24 hours the civilians in the Gaza envelope communities adjacent to the border.