Blind Spot: America And The Palestinians, From Balfour To Trump (Brookings / Ash Center Series, 'Innovative Governance In The 21,Used

Blind Spot: America And The Palestinians, From Balfour To Trump (Brookings / Ash Center Series, 'Innovative Governance In The 21,Used

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A critical examination of the history of USPalestinian relationsThe United States has invested billions of dollars and countless diplomatic hours in the pursuit of IsraeliPalestinian peace and a twostate solution. Yet American attempts to broker an end to the conflict have repeatedly come up short. At the center of these failures lay two critical factors: Israeli power and Palestinian politics.While both Israelis and Palestinians undoubtedly share much of the blame, one also cannot escape the role of the United States, as the sole mediator in the process, in these repeated failures. American peacemaking efforts ultimately ran aground as a result of Washington's unwillingness to confront Israel's everdeepening occupation or to come to grips with the realities of internal Palestinian politics. In particular, the book looks at the interplay between the U.S.led peace process and internal Palestinian politicsnamely, how a badly flawed peace process helped to weaken Palestinian leaders and institutions and how an increasingly dysfunctional Palestinian leadership, in turn, hindered prospects for a diplomatic resolution. Thus, while the peace process was not necessarily doomed to fail, Washington's management of the process, with its builtin blind spot to Israeli power and Palestinian politics, made failure far more likely than a negotiated breakthrough.Shaped by the pressures of American domestic politics and the special relationship with Israel, Washington's distinctive blind spot to Israeli power and Palestinian politics has deep historical roots, dating back to the 1917 Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate. The size of the blind spot has varied over the years and from one administration to another, but it is always present.

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