Aaron David Miller

If you only accept things the way the world is, things never change.

And if you only accept things the way you want them to be, you're going to fail.

It is the balance...

between the world the way it is and the aspirations of what we want for a better world, better America, conflict-ending solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

That's where we need to be.

And you give me, Dave, you give me the leaders.

leaders who are masters of their political constituencies, not prisoners of their ideologies, leaders who are willing to recognize that not only do their own needs need to be requited, but the needs and requirements of others.

You give me those two leaders, and you give me an American mediator who's prepared to apply a lot of honey and a lot of vinegar, and I'll give you a chance, a serious chance—

to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Dave, it was great.

If the Constitution means anything, the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked to send them in because they want to fight crime.

have participated in these negotiations for the better part of 20 plus years, mostly, we failed.

Look, this is not a peace agreement.

It is not even an acceptable end to the Israeli Hamas war in Gaza.

Assuming the presidential leadership that Trump has demonstrated continues, it offers the first break in two years of a parade of horrors that Israelis and Palestinians have visited upon one another.

And it could, it actually could lead to an end to the war in Gaza.