Introduction: Dishonest Brokers
Chapter 1: The First Moment: Begin and Palestinian Autonomy in
1982
Chapter 2: The Second Movement: The Madrid-Washington Negotiations,
1991-93
Chapter 3: The Third Movement: Barack Obama and Palestine,
2009-12
Conclusion: Israel's Lawyer
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Rashid Khalidi is the author of seven books about the Middle East, including Palestinian Identity, Brokers of Deceit, Resurrecting Empire, The Iron Cage, and Sowing Crisis. His writing on Middle Eastern history and politics has appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and many journals. For his work on the Middle East, Professor Khalidi has received fellowships and grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the American Research Center in Egypt, and the Rockefeller Foundation, among others. He is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studiesat Columbia University in New York and is editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies.
Praise for Brokers of Deceit
"What has happened to the Palestinian people since 1948 is
one of the great crimes of modern history. Of course, Israel bears
primary responsibility for this tragedy. However, as Rashid
Khalidi shows in his smart new book, American presidents from
Truman to Obama have sided with Israel at almost every turn and
helped it inflict immense pain and humiliation on the Palestinians.
At the same time, they have employed high-sounding but
dishonest rhetoric to cover up Israel's brutal behavior. As
Brokers of Deceit makes clear, the United States richly
deserves to be called "Israel's lawyer."
—John J. Mearsheimer, coauthor of The Israel Lobby
“Drawing on his own experience as a Palestinian negotiator and
recently released documents, Rashid Khalidi mounts a frontal attack
on the myths and misconceptions that have come to surround
America’s role in the so-called “peace process” which is all
process and no peace. The title is not too strong: the book
demonstrates conclusively that far from serving as an honest
broker, the US continues to act as Israel’s lawyer – with dire
consequences for its own interests, for the Palestinians, and for
the entire region. Professor Khalidi deserves much credit for his
superb exposition of the fatal gap between the rhetoric and reality
of American diplomacy on this critically important issue.”
—Avi Shlaim, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at
Oxford and author ofThe Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World.
"Khalidi has combined history, common sense and his
first-hand understanding of arab-israeli peace talks, as brokered
by Washington, to make the case that American national security
interests would be best served by a just peace in the Middle East.
Instead, he writes with great sadness, Washington's efforts
to be an honest broker fall "somewhere between high irony and
farce" —and puts democratic America, with its avowed commitment to
freedom for all, in the position of enabling the continued
subjugation of the Palestine people. This is an important
book."
—Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker
“For those of us who believe that a two-state solution is the
path to justice and peace for Israel and Palestine, Rashid
Khalidi’s trenchant analysis is powerful and disturbing. The
United States has failed repeatedly to be an honest broker,
accepting the status quo of Israeli occupation and settlements when
a true peace agreement would be deeply in the interest of all
parties, Israel, Palestine, and the US itself. Khalidi emphasizes
that the deceptions of language and deed have serious long-term
costs and that the United States might soon impose and incur still
greater costs through ill-conceived policies vis-à-vis Syria, Iran,
and other countries in the Middle East.”
—Jeffrey D. Sachs, author of The End of Poverty
Praise for Rashid Khalidi
“Rashid Khalidi is arguably the foremost U.S. historian of the
modern Middle East.”—Warren I. Cohen, Los Angeles Times Book
Review
“In a refreshing contrast to the yammering bazaar of complaint and
allegation that has dominated American public discussion of the
Middle East since Sept. 11, 2001, "The Iron Cage" is a patient and
eloquent work, ranging over the whole of modern Palestinian history
from World War I to the death of Yasser Arafat. Reorienting the
Palestinian narrative around the attitudes and tactics of the
Palestinians themselves, Khalidi lends a remarkable illumination to
a story so wearily familiar it is often hard to believe anything
new can be found within.”—Jonathan Shainin, Salon
“Unlike most so-called Middle East experts, Khalidi actually knows
a great deal about that region”—Professor John J. Mearsheimer,
author of The Israel Lobby
“With a deep knowledge of the Middle East and a felicitous literary
style, Khalidi . . . examines the history of U.S.
involvement in the area against the backdrop of European
colonialism.”—Ronald Steel, The Nation
“Rashid Khalidi’s extraordinary book [Resurrecting Empire] is
enormously relevant for our times, especially in light of America’s
growing involvement in the Middle East.”—Joseph Stiglitz, winner of
the Nobel Prize
“Khalidi’s role is as a historian, working to show how historical
forces, largely ignored in the U.S., have shaped the modern Middle
East. He takes particular delight in demolishing the various
clichés used to describe the Middle East, bred out of what he terms
‘America’s historical amnesia.’”—Chris Hedges, New York Times
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