The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace
by Aaron David Miller
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Author: Aaron David MillerEdition: Hardcover
Published: 2008-03-25
ISBN: 0553804901
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Bantam
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Book Review: Essential reading for anyone interested in Arab-Israeli issues
Summary: 5 Stars
Aaron Miller brings a truly unique insight into one of the world's most intractable yet fascinating conflicts: the search for Arab-Israeli peace. Not only does he provide a first-hand account of U.S. involvement in the region going back 20 years, he does so in an engaging, objective and often entertaining way. The book is part history lesson, part autobiography and part novel, written in such a way as to make it both accessible to newcomers and essential reading for scholars, diplomats and the myriad people engaged in the search for peace.
Summary of The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace
For nearly twenty years, Aaron David Miller has played a central role in U.S. efforts to broker Arab-Israeli peace. His position as an advisor to presidents, secretaries of state, and national security advisors has given him a unique perspective on a problem that American leaders have wrestled with for more than half a century. Why has the world’s greatest superpower failed to broker, or impose, a solution in the Middle East? If a solution is possible, what would it take? And why after so many years of struggle and failure, with the entire region even more unsettled than ever, should Americans even care? Is Israel/Palestine really the “much too promised land”?As a historian, analyst, and negotiator, perhaps no one is more qualified to answer these questions than Aaron David Miller. Without partisanship or finger-pointing, Miller lucidly and honestly records what went right, what went wrong, and how we got where we are today. Here is an insider’s view of the peace process from a place at the negotiating table, filled with unforgettable stories and colorful behind-the-scenes anecdotes. Here, too, are new interviews with all the key players, including Presidents Carter, Ford, Bush forty-one, all nine U.S. secretaries of state, as well Arab and Israeli leaders, who disclose the inner thoughts and strategies that motivated them. The result is a book that shatters all preconceived notions to tackle the complicated issues of culture, religion, domestic politics, and national security that have defined—and often derailed—a half century of diplomacy.
Honest, critical, and certain to be controversial, this insightful first-person account offers a brilliant new analysis of the problem of Arab-Israeli peace and how, against all odds, it still might be solved.
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