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Shattered Hopes Josh Ruebner

Shattered Hopes By Josh Ruebner

Shattered Hopes by Josh Ruebner


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Shattered Hopes: Obama's Failure to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace by Josh Ruebner

On just the second day of his first term, Barack Obama appointed former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell as his special envoy for Middle East peace and boldly asserted that his administration would actively and aggressively seek a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians. At the outset of Obama's second term, here is the first hard-hitting analysis of why the administration has entirely failed on this issue, a failure brought on in part because of Obama's wrongheaded obeisance to Israeli policy and its US advocates.

Written in a clear and accessible style by the director of a national peace organization who has also been a Middle East analyst for the Congressional Research Service, this book offers an informed history of the Obama administration's policies and maps out a progressive path forward.

Shattered Hopes Reviews

Josh Ruebner has produced the authoritive autopsy of the US-led peace process. His portrait of America's first African-American president demonstrating passivity in the face of apartheid is absolutely devastating. -Max Blumenthal, author of Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel

An essential contribution to the subject. Josh has been spearheading efforts for an even-handed U.S. policy for a dozen years, and has an intimate knowledge of how the administration and Congress work as well as unparalleled expertise on US aid to Israel. -Nadia Hijab, author and media commentator

With the passion of a longtime activist and the rigor of a trained researcher, Josh Ruebner dissects a wide range of sources to provide a tour de force analysis of Obama's failed Middle East policy. -Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies

This marvelous book looks at one of the thorniest aspects of foreign policy today. It's a book for those who are not content to sit on the sidelines and watch the continuous dispossession of the Palestinian people, committed if not in our name, then with our blessing. -Bill Fletcher, Jr.

This book is much more than a devastating indictment of an immoral U.S. policy; it is a clarion call for US civil society to take action where our government falters. -Anna Baltzer, author of Witness in Palestine

This book doesn't pull any punches but rather is an honest assessment of Washington's failed peace attempts that anyone who genuinely cares about a just peace should read. -Yousef Munayyer, Executive Director, The Palestine Center

Anyone who wants to understand what happened on this front during the fateful first five years of Obama's presidency needs to read this book! -Helena Cobban, former columnist, Christian Science Monitor, founder of Just World Books

A stinging indictment of the absurdity of the Obama administration's failed peace process. -Tikkun

A devastating book. Mining deeply into the treasure trove of classified documents released by Wikileaks and the Palestine Papers, Ruebner demonstrates that the role of the Obama administration regarding Israel-Palestine has been even worse than those paying close attention to public, non-leaked material could have imagined. -John V. Whitbeck, Journal of Palestine Studies

Ruebner is unafraid to tell it like it is. Drawing from a wealth of primary sources obtained from WikiLeaks, the Palestine Papers, and both clandestine and open documents, he presents analysis that is intriguing even to an expert. -Heather Hartlaub, Muftah

About Josh Ruebner

Josh Ruebner is the National Advocacy Director of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and regularly appears on national broadcast and print outlets, including NBC, ABC Nightline, MSNBC, USA Today, LA Times, and The Hill. He founded and directed Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel, which merged with Jewish voice for Peace. Ruebner also worked for the Congressional Research Service, a governmental agency providing members of Congress with policy analysis. He lives in Washington, DC.

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GOR006849593
9781781681206
1781681201
Shattered Hopes: Obama's Failure to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace by Josh Ruebner
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Verso Books
20130910
256
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