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Dishonest Broker | Praise
“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 W. Said
“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
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