Winner of the 2014 Lionel Trilling Book Award
An examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in
the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical
moments
For more than seven decades the conflict between Israel and the
Palestinian people has raged on with no end in sight, and for much
of that time, the United States has been involved as a mediator in
the conflict. In this book, ""acclaimed historian Rashid Khalidi
zeroes in on the United States's role as the purported impartial
broker in this failed peace process.
Khalidi closely analyzes three historical moments that illuminate
how the United States' involvement has, in fact, thwarted progress
toward peace between Israel and Palestine. The first moment he
investigates is the "Reagan Plan" of 1982, when Israeli prime
minister Menachem Begin refused to accept the Reagan
administration's proposal to reframe the Camp David Accords more
impartially. The second moment covers the period after the Madrid
Peace Conference, from 1991 to 1993, during which negotiations
between Israel and Palestine were brokered by the United States
until the signing of the secretly negotiated Oslo accords. Finally,
Khalidi takes on President Barack Obama's retreat from plans to
insist on halting the settlements in the West Bank.
Through in-depth research into and keen analysis of these three
moments, as well as his own firsthand experience as an advisor to
the Palestinian delegation at the 1991 pre-Oslo negotiations in
Washington, DC, Khalidi reveals how the United States and Israel
have actively colluded to prevent a Palestinian state and resolve
the situation in Israel's favor. "Brokers of Deceit" bares the
truth about why peace in the Middle East has been impossible to
achieve: for decades, US policymakers have masqueraded as unbiased
agents working to bring the two sides together, when, in fact, they
have been the agents of continuing injustice, effectively
preventing the difficult but essential steps needed to achieve
peace in the region.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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