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PRAISE FOR DISHONEST BROKER Naseer H. Aruri’s Dishonest Broker: The U.S. Role in Israel and Pales tine 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 Pales tinians 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 occu pation 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 DISHONEST BROKER THE U.S. ROLE IN ISRAEL AND PALESTINE NASEER H. ARURI South End Press Cambridge, MA Copyright © 2003 by Naseer H. Aruri. Any properly footnoted quotation of up to 500 sequential words may be used without permission, as long as the total number of words quoted does not exceed 2,000. For longer quotations or for a greater number of total words, please write to South End Press for permission. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Aruri, Naseer Hasan, 1934- Dishonest broker : the US role in Israel & Palestine / Naseer Aruri. p. cm. ISBN 0-89608-688-7 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-89608-687-9 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Arab-Israeli conflict— 1993—Peace. 2. United States—Foreign rela tions—Israel. 3. Israel—Foreign relations—United States. 4. United States—Politics and government— 1993-2001. 5. Israel—Politics and govern ment— 1993- 6. Palestinian Arabs—Politics and government— 1993- 7. Dip lomatic negotiations in international disputes. I. Title. DS119.76.A773 2003 327.73054’09’045—dc21 2002042886 South End Press, 7 Brookline Street, #1 Cambridge, MA 02139-4146 www. southendpress. org 07 06 05 04 03 12 3 4 5 Printed in Canada For Joyce, my wife and best friend CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction: A Flawed Peace Process xi 1 Palestine, the Arabs, and U.S. Policy 1 2 The Evolution of U.S. Global Strategy 15 3 The Special Relationship and Strategic Alliance During 35 and After the Cold War 4 The Obstruction of Peace 51 5 The Marginalization of the Palestine Question 61 6 The Further Marginalization of the Palestine Question 81 7 Unreciprocal Reciprocity 103 8 Jerusalem and a Changing American Policy 127 9 The United States and the Palestine Refugee Question 149 10 Camp David, the Intifada, and the End of Oslo 167 11 Bush and Sharon: Defining the Path 193 12 Redress, the Single State, and International Solidarity 217 Conclusion: A Peace Process or a Negotiating Strategy? 237 Appendix: Settlements and Settlers in the West Bank: 247 1967-2001 Index 249 About the Author 267 About South End Press 268 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS My sincere thanks go to colleagues, family members, and friends, from whom I derived inspiration and encouragement to write this book. I am greatly indebted to them for their consistent support and contributions, without which this project would not have come to fruition. My wife, Joyce, was the leading and constant advocate of the need for a new book that would attempt to present a concise history of the U.S. involvement in the Palestine-Israel conflict, particularly at the present juncture in which the current U.S. president has given Israel carte blanche in the Occupied Territories, unprecedented both in its substance and lack of ambiguity. She also read a number of chapters and offered useful criticism. My son, Jamal, has also made substantive comments and suggestions. My col league and long-time friend, Professor Samih Farsoun of the American University in Washington, D.C. made invaluable contributions and al lowed me to rely on some of the work we had written together. My good friend, Professor Cheryl Rubenberg, was a constant source of encouragement and a penetrating critic who read some of the chapters and made valuable suggestions. I would like to acknowledge the enor mous insight I gained from the numerous telephone conversations I had with my cousin, Professor Tayseer Arouri of Bir Zeit University in the oc cupied West Bank. He was always generous with his ideas and forthright in his scholarly analysis while under prolonged curfews, together with more than two million Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. My good friend Elaine Hagopian of Simmons College has rendered invaluable con tributions, having read much of what I have written not only for this book, but for other publications that had an impact on this book. Her comments were always poignant and original. My daughter-in-law, Danielle, was ex tremely generous with her time and typing skills, even when she had to care for two of my granddaughters at home. I would like to extend my gratitude to Anthony Amove of South End Press, who was a solid source of support and enlightenment, particularly X Dishonest Broker as he proposed a thoughtful scheme for updating and replacing my earlier book, The Obstruction of Peace. I am grateful for his help and for his shepherding of this book from the inception. I wish to gratefully acknowl edge the gracious permission kindly granted by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, chairman of the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of Interna tional Affairs (PASSIA) in Jerusalem to reproduce ten of their remarkable maps, which constitute an exceptional asset to this book. Mahmoud Abu Rmeileh, PASSIA’s very able webmaster, offered vital assistance in the reproduction of these maps. I would like to express sincere thanks to two young scholars who rendered crucial assistance with footnotes: Rosemary Carroll of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Bader Albanna of Yale University. To all those and other unnamed persons, I offer sincere gratitude as well as exemption from any blame for errors of analysis, omission, commission, or facts. These will remain as entirely mine.
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