The Much Too Promised Land

The American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP)
and
Foundation for Middle East Peace

invite you to a discussion of:

The Much Too Promised Land
America’s elusive search for Arab-Israeli peace

with:

Dr. Aaron David Miller

Friday April 18, 2008
12:00-1:15pm

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
1779 Massachusetts Avenue - Washington, DC 20045

A light lunch and refreshments will be provided

Copies of A Much Too Promised Land will be available for purchase. For more information on the book, please click here. [2]

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.

Aaron David Miller is currently a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC. Previously Dr. Miller has served as president of Seeds of Peace, and advisor to six Secretaries of State.

Response by Dr. Hussein Ibish, American Task Force on Palestine

Introduction by Dr. Ziad Asali, American Task Force on Palestine

The Much Too Promised Land

The Much Too Promised Land America’s elusive search for Arab-Israeli peace

The Much Too Promised Land
America’s elusive search for Arab-Israeli peace