Brokers of Deceit

How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East

De: Rashid Khalidi

Narrado por: Curtis Michael Holland

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.

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, 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.

©2013 Rashid Khalidi (P)2025 Tantor Media

Interesting take on history

This earlier book is more of an orthodox history than the author’s later flamboyant “ Hundred Years War”. The analyses of why the US did not oblige Israel during the 1956 Suez crisis is illuminating. The critique of Arafat during the Oslo accords is persuasive. The author well argues that President Obama, despite Republican views to the contrary, in fact strongly supported Israel. I agree that neither of the allies, the US or Israel, offered the Palestinians the bases of a state, which must have defined borders.