Dishonest Broker: The U.S. Role in Israel and Palestine

It seems like its the same negative reviews coming from the same people who have a seemingly blind support for Israel. Professor Naseer Aruri uses mainstream US, Israeli, and Palestinian sources to analyze whether in fact the United States government has been an honest broker in the Israel-Palestine conflict. According to the mounting evidence, US has in fact NOT been an honest broker, tilting more toward the side of Israel and placing any failure to the peace process on the Palestinians and their representatives. Also according to the documented history, Israel has enjoyed an immunity that is unprecedented in the international arena. For 40 years now, Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has been uncontested due to the fact that every meaningful international solution to the conflict has been vetoed by the US. US also continues to give over 3 billion dollars in military aid to the Israeli government to continue a very illegal occupation. According to the preambular paragraph of UN Security Council Resolution 242, "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." Therefore, Israel's occupation of West Bank and Gaza are illegal by international law. One also should look at Israeli scholars like Tanya Reinhart, Ilan Pape, Simha Flapan, Yosef Gorny, and others to corroborate such information. For human rights abuses that Israeli government commits on Palestinians go to the Israeli human rights organzation B'Tselem and other mainstream human rights organizations like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. Once you compare the data to what the book presents and see that its dead on accurate, all the negative reviews on this site will seem ridiculous and show a blind following for Israel right or wrong rather than standing up for the truth regardless of who has it.

This book is a well written, factual documentation of how self-serving, dishonest US 'peace brokering' has effected the Palestinian/Israeli situation over past decades. Like it or not, the American people have been deliberately misled into thinking our negotiations have been fair and non-biased. If you have any sense of fairness - you owe it to yourself to read this book!

This book has been a long time coming. It finally speaks what many have known all along -- that the United States, due to its foreign policy in the Middle East, can not possibly be a fair broker in any Arab-Israeli relations. The author painstakingly lays down the foundation for the current situation in precise terms, providing a context for his general thesis that is both convincing and eye-opening, and then advances the discussion to places few have dared go in recent years. Anyone interested in learning the quiet truth about this issue would do well to add this book to his or her collection.