MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:
About a month ago, we called an old Middle East hand here in Washington to the phone. His name is Aaron David Miller. He spent much of his career at the State Department trying to help broker a path to peace in the Middle East. When we spoke, the occasion was the 30th anniversary of the Oslo Accords – a historic peace deal between Israel and Palestinians.
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AARON DAVID MILLER: I thought wrongly – in horrible misjudgment, I must say – that the peace process, so-called, had become irreversible, and there was no going back.
KELLY: Fast-forward to today, Day 5 of outright war between Israel and Hamas, the Islamic resistance movement that rules the Gaza Strip. Aaron David Miller, welcome back to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED.
MILLER: Mary Louise, it’s always a pleasure to be with you.
KELLY: You know,…
