The scale, frequency, and brazenness of human rights violations around the world have not diminished, but rather have grown profoundly, raising the question of whether the very notion of “civilization” is little more than a veneer. Scores of countries spanning the globe have committed large-scale, documented abuses against their own populations and/or native groups, and against civilians in neighboring countries, and are doing so with impunity.
Today’s podcast guest is Aaron David Miller, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Between 1978 and 2003, he served at the State Department as an historian, analyst, negotiator, and advisor to Republican and Democratic secretaries of state, where he helped formulate U.S. policy on the Middle East and the Arab-Israel peace process, most recently as the senior advisor for Arab-Israeli negotiations.
In this episode, we discuss the current state of Israeli-Palestinian affairs and what the prospects are for peace, including regionally, what we may see from the upcoming elections in Israel, the current status of the Iran war and its implications for the region, the Gulf states’ concerns about their security in the war’s aftermath, Israel’s gains and losses from the war, and the state of US foreign policy under Trump toward the region.
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The MAGA base has entered a new social contract, not with the Constitution but with Trump himself as sovereign, trading liberty and truth for the security of belonging to his camp. The horror is precisely that the destruction of American democracy is being carried out not only by a “madman” but by ordinary functionaries who know better and choose not to act.
Child sex trafficking is not just another societal problem waiting for legislative tinkering or bureaucratic reform. It is a moral outrage—a fundamental rupture in the ethical fabric of our world. The measure of our humanity will be taken not by how we treat the powerful, the wealthy, or the competent, but by how fiercely we protect those who cannot protect themselves.
NAZA, the documentary by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, has set Israel ablaze — not with remorse, but with rage. Rather than confront what the film documents, most Israelis condemned it. The government branded the two filmmakers traitors, ministers demanded their citizenship be revoked, and they now live under death threats.
That is disgraceful. But the greater tragedy is Israel's refusal to look in the mirror and admit that crimes against humanity — genocide — were committed in Gaza. Denial is not a shield; it is moral collapse. A nation that cannot face what it has inflicted on the Palestinians will carry that stigma for generations. When will Israelis wake up? Until they do, the truth will wait — and the price will go much higher and still come due.
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My prayer two these two may you stay safe
Probably next on Israel's booby-trapped exploding cell phones list ‼
Fuck Israeli murderers.
On September 14, the Supreme Court refused to let the Postal Service enforce Trump's mail-ballot rule, and the ballots will move. But read the fine print: the justices did not hold the scheme unconstitutional, only that it came too late to impose this year. Kavanaugh all but invited its return.
The scheme itself is not in dispute. An executive order policing ballots through the Postal Service. Federal citizenship lists. Threats to prosecute election officials. Fabricated fraud claims to justify it all. And Republican legislatures redrawing congressional maps mid-decade, carving up communities to manufacture seats no voter granted them.
This is not a policy disagreement. It is a president who cannot win a fair contest trying to rig an unfair one, treating the machinery of American self-government as his private property.
One court order is not accountability. Trump must be beaten decisively at the polls and made to pay for what he has done to this republic.
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Voting blue here early
💙BLUE WAVE COMIN💙
Vote blue
It is a start
I’ll tell you the funniest thing. I’ll go backstage before a Miss Teen USA show, and everyone’s getting dressed and ready and everything and no men are anywhere. And I’m allowed to go in because I’m the owner of the pageant and therefore I’m inspecting it. You know, I’m inspecting. The girls are standing there with no clothes on. And you see these incredible looking women (teens), and so, I sort of get away with things like that. - DJT I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything. - DJT She does have a very nice figure. If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her. Isn’t that terrible? How terrible? Is that terrible? - DJT Arnold Palmer was all man, and I say that in all due respect to women. This is a guy that was all man.When he took the showers with other pros, they came out of there. They said, ‘Oh my God. That’s unbelievable. - DJT We had 111 missiles shot by the Islamic Republic of Japan. They were shot at the aircraft carrier. - DJT They are dangerous. You see what’s happening up in the Massachusetts area with the whales … The windmills are driving the whales crazy, obviously. - DJT Give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that's the end of the magnets. Now, nobody knows what a magnet is. If you don't make a magnet, you don't make a car... you don't make anything. - DJT Virtually 100% of the net job creation in the last year has gone to migrants... In fact, I've heard that substantially more than... uh... beyond... actually beyond that number of 100%, it's a much higher number than that. - DJT You know they've (Greenland) been very nice to me, I'm a big fan, but you know the fact that they had a boat land there 500 years ago doesn't mean that they own the land. - DJT Drugs coming by sea meaning coming by water. A lot of people don't know what I mean by sea. They think I mean vision. I'm talking about sea like the sea, s e a. - DJT The President of the United States, Gavin Newscum, admitted that he has learning disabilities, dyslexia, everything about him is dumb. - DJT
In 8 days....early voting starts in my state and.... we fix Congress. Vote Blue and take back our country. Yes ... there is something you can do.
I would say there's a 60/40 chance that the post office still going to do it anyway
Love post like this. Makes me want to vote red for sure
Dems, Independents and the growing number of dissatisfied Republicans….let’s do this! 💙🇺🇸💙
Trump is easily the greatest President ever!
Trump has saved our country!
Trump- best president ever who fights for Americans!
Actually the supreme Court basically said it's up to the United States postal service. ABSENTEE BALLOTS have been around for decades. They have to be requested they are verified they're secure they have a barcode they go in the mail. MAIL IN BALLOTS went off the chain in 2020 for a pandemic. They went everywhere to anyone and everyone. They are not requested they are not verified they're not secure they do not have a barcode they go in the mail. They also get printed in back rooms. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO
A SLIM MAJORITY IS HARDLY DEVASTATING NO MATTER WHICH PARTY WINS‼️🚫🫏🚫
Yes, Big Time
YES
VOTE BLUE
A blue wave and and orange jump suit is in order!
Yes 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
Today’s podcast guest is Aaron David Miller, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Between 1978 and 2003, he served at the State Department as an historian, analyst, negotiator, and advisor to Republican and Democratic secretaries of state, where he helped formulate U.S. policy on the Middle East and the Arab-Israel peace process, most recently as the senior advisor for Arab-Israeli negotiations.
In this episode, we discuss the current state of Israeli-Palestinian affairs and what the prospects are for peace, including regionally, what we may see from the upcoming elections in Israel, the current status of the Iran war and its implications for the region, the Gulf states’ concerns about their security in the war’s aftermath, Israel’s gains and losses from the war, and the state of US foreign policy under Trump toward the region.
Listen now: soundcloud.com/alon-ben-meir/on-the-issues-episode-166-aaron-david-miller
Full bio
Aaron David Miller is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, focusing on U.S. foreign policy. He has written five books, including his most recent, The End of Greatness: Why America Can’t Have (and Doesn’t Want) Another Great President (Palgrave, 2014) and The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace (Bantam, 2008), and hosts Carnegie Connects, Carnegie’s premier live podcast. He received his PhD in Middle East and U.S. diplomatic history from the University of Michigan in 1977.
Between 1978 and 2003, Miller served at the State Department as an historian, analyst, negotiator, and advisor to Republican and Democratic secretaries of state, where he helped formulate U.S. policy on the Middle East and the Arab-Israel peace process, most recently as the senior advisor for Arab-Israeli negotiations. He also served as the deputy special Middle East coordinator for Arab-Israeli negotiations, senior member of the State Department’s policy planning staff, in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, and in the office of the historian. He has received the department’s Distinguished, Superior, and Meritorious Honor Awards.
Miller is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and formerly served as resident scholar at the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies. He has been a featured presenter at the World Economic Forum and leading U.S. universities. Between 2003 and 2006 he served as president of Seeds of Peace, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering young leaders from regions of conflict with the leadership skills required to advance reconciliation and coexistence. From 2006 to 2019, Miller was a public policy scholar; vice president for new initiatives, and director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Miller’s articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, Foreign Policy, and Foreign Affairs. He is a frequent commentator on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, BBC, and Sirius XM radio.
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Tensions are again rising in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, threatening the fragile peace established by the 2022 Pretoria agreement. Ethiopia’s federal government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front have accused each other of military mobilization, while disputes over territory, displacement and disarmament remain unresolved. Heavy fighting in August reportedly included artillery and drone strikes. Human Rights Watch has also documented abuses against Tigrayans and forced recruitment by the TPLF, including children as young as 15. The warning signs are unmistakable. After the devastating 2020–2022 war, allowing tensions to escalate again would be catastrophic for civilians. The African Union helped broker the peace; now it must demonstrate that early warning can lead to early action.
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