Summary
Palestinian-American scholar whose Brokers of Deceit (2013) Falk, in Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hope, cites as the authoritative documentation of the United States’ partisanship as mediator in the Israel–Palestine negotiating process.
Details
- In Reviving the Israel–Palestine Negotiations: The Indyk Appointment, July 30, 2013, Falk gives Khalidi as “President Obama’s onetime Chicago friend and neighbor” who “published a book a few months ago with the title” Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Undermined Peace in the Middle East; appointing him, “despite his stellar credentials, would have produced a firestorm in Washington”, and Khalidi “is beyond serious contemplation” as a co-envoy — as are John Esposito, Chas Freeman and Ray Close, none “as close to the Palestinians as Indyk is to the Israelis”: such a selection “remains outside the boundaries of the Beltway’s political imagination and thus inhabits the realm of the unthinkable” (Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hope, PDF p.62-63).
- In Northern Ireland and the Israel–Palestine “Peace Process”, December 22, 2013, the United States’ role as “an avowedly partisan third party, the United States, which makes no effort to hide its commitment to safeguarding Israeli state interests even at the expense of Palestinian concerns” is, Falk writes, a “This critical assessment has been carefully documented in Rashid Khalidi’s authoritative” Brokers of Deceit (2013) (PDF p.205).
Related pages
Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hope, Martin Indyk, Barack Obama, Good Friday Agreement