Brokers of Deceit av Rashid Khalidi

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<b><br>Winner of the 2014 Lionel Trilling Book Award<br><br>An examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments</b><br> <br>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,<i></i>acclaimed historian Rashid Khalidi zeroes in on the United States’s role as the purported impartial broker in this failed peace process. <br><br> 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 mo