"He says Mr. Clinton was far too impressed with former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin , even suggesting that Mr. Clinton viewed that Israeli soldier-statesman with a filial reverence. He adds, “So we never had a tough or honest conversation with the Israelis on settlement activity.” He also writes, “Long after Rabin’s death, the pattern set by Clinton in the early years would continue. ...”Mr. Miller, who earned a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern history from the University of Michigan and in the 1980s wrote two books on Palestinians and the P.L.O. while having almost no contact with actual Palestinians...When you get to know people by actually sitting down and listening to them,” he writes of the Palestinians, “your views begin to change.” He quotes the Palestinian negotiator and intellectual Hanan Ashrawi as saying that Israelis were given all the carrots, and the Palestinians the sticks, and adds, “She was basically right.”"