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The U.S. Role in Israel and Palestine 
Dishonest BrokerThe U.S. Role in Israel and Palestine Aruri analyzes the evolving relationship between the United States and the two protagonists--the Palestinians and Israel--and argues that the US government, rather than serving as an "honest broker", has allowed Israel to use violence and violate international law to maintain its illegal occupation. "No student or scholar of the Middle East, and no concerned citizen, should pass up the opportunity to read this remarkable work of scholarship and intellectual courage." - Edward Said "A powerful corrective to illusion and misrepresentation." - Noam Chomsky "Readers wishing to understand why all the peace efforts in Palestine had ended in failure during the Pax Americana, will receive clear and unequivocal answers from this excellent book. It distinguishes clearly between the discourse on peace and the policy on the ground. From this perspective, it becomes clear that the US strove simultaneously to become the sole peace mediator in the area and Israel's guardian angel. While excluding any alternative peace initiative, Washington continued to sustain Israeli aggressiveness, through arms, financial aid and vetoes in the UN. The dominant role played by Washington is well documented in this book, as are the destructive effects of its pretense, and failure, to be an 'honest broker'. As Aruri points out rightly, it is particularly the sidelining of the Palestinian refugee problem that failed the attempts to pacify the land and bring peace. In this respect this book is not only a valid critique on American policy, it offers a way forward and advice for future policy makers in Washington. Should they heed, even partially, there may be still hope for the torn land of Palestine and Israel." - Dr. Ilan Pappe, author of The Israel/Palestine Question "Naseer H. Aruri's Dishonest Broker: The U.S. Role in Israel and Palestine should come packaged with the advisory: Urgent! This is a work that should be read immediately by anyone trying to understand why the so-called "peace process" has undermined the possibility of peace; why, after volumes of praise for Oslo, the struggle between Israel and the Palestinians is more bitter and protracted than ever. Aruri's book aims to clarify these and other related questions in a brief survey that is based on U.S., Palestinian and Israeli sources that provides evidence and insights into the continuing causes of conflict as well as the nature of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza-evidence seldom published in the U.S. media and for that reason, little known to its readers. It is U.S. policy that is Aruri's main theme in a work that exposes the false claims of U.S. impartiality and its consistent undermining of an agreement that would have led to "an end to the Israeli occupation and the establishment of a Palestinian state existing side by side with Israel." - Professor Irene Gendzier, Boston University Naseer H. Aruri is Emeitus Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. His many publications include Occupation: Israel over Palestine (1983), The Obstruction of Peace: The U.S., Israel and the Palestinians (1995), and Palestinian Refugees: The Right of Return (Pluto, 2001). He was a member of the Board of Directors of Human Rights Watch/Middle East, 1990-1992, and a three-term member of the Board of Directors of Amnesty International, USA,1984-1990. For more information on Dishonest Broker, please go to http://www.southendpress.org/books/dishonest.shtml To request a review copy, please go to http://www.southendpress.org/order/review.shtml To request a desk or exam copy, please go to http://www.southendpress.org/order/examform.html
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