This event was recorded on Friday, April 5 at Politics & Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C. For more information, go to: www.politics-prose.com/event/b...
Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East, by Rashid Khalidi
In his seventh book on the Middle East, Khalidi, Columbia professor of modern Arab studies, looks closely at the American role in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Focusing on the 1982 Reagan Plan, the Madrid Peace Conference a decade later, and Obama's shifting position on Israel's settlements, Khalidi argues that the U.S. has impeded, not furthered, an agreement.