Download PDF Blind Spot America and the Palestinians from Balfour to Trump Khaled Elgindy 9780815731559 Books
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Blind Spot America and the Palestinians from Balfour to Trump Khaled Elgindy 9780815731559 Books Reviews
- The most comprehensive and thoroughly researched analysis of US engagement on Palestine and Palestinians. El-Gindy meticulously covers the considerably complex deliberations on the question of Palestine within U.S. institutions and among its interlocutors as well as those in Europe and the Middle East to paint a complete picture of U.S. dealings on the issue over the last 100 years. Thoroughly researched and solidly backed by reliable sources from U.S., Palestinian and Israeli/Zionist sources, this book is a must have for anyone who is trying to go beyond a superficial understanding of the relationship between the U.S. and Palestine. I have been working on Palestine for over 30 years now and was shocked at some of the findings in this book. Not only new archival material, but new constellations of connecting the dots that give a novel or reexamined look of the conflict.
Finally, I believe it is also a very instructive book for anyone interested in examining how power inequality in politics manifests itself and the chilling obvious predictability of it. I found myself having to double check quotes that he cites to see if they truly were said back in the early 20th century rather than today. I can't think of another book that makes the point of how power really works in very predictable ways than this one. I highly recommend it, to political science majors especially! - Blind Spot is a must read for anyone interested in why decades of US efforts to broker peace between Palestinians and Israelis failed. In his thoroughly-documented book, Khaled Elgindy paints a clear picture of the erasure of Palestinians and their internal political dynamics from US considerations – not unlike the way Palestinians had been erased from US media coverage and political consciousness. This is an especially timely book when we have an Israeli government committed to annexation so closely aligned with a Trump Administration that seems to believe it can succeed where others have failed – by more thoroughly catering to Israeli demands and ignoring Palestinian human rights. While I'm not holding out hope for this administration, this book should be required reading for all US policy makers engaged on Palestine/Israel.
