United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave a speech in Israel, standing at the podium alone, reminding the world that the US believes a two-state solution is the only way out of a conflict whose devastation has resulted in thousands of civilian deaths. All this amid the threat that the war could expand to involve Hezbollah, potentially pull in Iran, and possibly, even the United States. The World’s Carolyn Beeler talks with Aaron David Miller, a former adviser to six US Secretaries of State on Arab-Israeli negotiations about where, if anywhere, negotiations can go and what it would take to reach a two-state solution.
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