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Source: http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.01.10/news4.html
Aaron Miller Leaving State in a State of "Despair"
(Forward) - Ori Nir A 25-year State Department veteran, Aaron Miller has served since the first Bush administration as part of a specialized team devoted to advancing Middle East peace negotiations. Now, at age 53, Miller is leaving the diplomatic service to become president of a not-for-profit organization, Seeds for Peace. A condition to successful negotiations, Miller said, is a clear Palestinian agreement that their "armed struggle," as they refer to their campaign of anti-Israel violence, has to stop. "I see no way - under any conceivable or imaginable circumstance - of creating any kind of environment for negotiations, without that fundamental realization being grasped by Palestinians and executed," he said. Miller confirmed that the crisis with Iraq will "have to be resolved before a serious focus or emphasis can be placed on Israeli-Arab peacemaking."