Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump , by Khaled Elgindy. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2019. 345 pages. $25.99 cloth. There has never been a more pro-Israeli resident of the White House than Donald Trump. He is the latest link in a chain of U.S. executives who have leaned heavily toward Israel and have progressively denied Palestinians their most fundamental aspirations while stripping them of their basic rights. In this, his first publication of a full-length book, Khaled Elgindy chooses one specific aspect of the relation between the United States and the Palestinians to explain this historical process. The power asymmetry between Israel (with the blind support of the United States) and the Palestinians has been mentioned often as a key obstacle to resolving the conflict but has probably never received such a thorough treatment as Elgindy's. Blind Spot has been released when the so-called peace process appears to have reached its logical conclusion. The author traces a steady degradation of the conflict in which the United States has pushed …

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盲点：美国和巴勒斯坦人，从贝尔福到特朗普，作者：Khaled Elgindy。华盛顿特区：布鲁金斯学会出版社，2019 年。345 页。布 25.99 美元。从来没有比唐纳德特朗普更亲以色列的白宫居民了。他是一系列美国高管中的最新一员，这些高管严重倾向于以色列，并逐渐否认巴勒斯坦人最基本的愿望，同时剥夺了他们的基本权利。在这本书中，哈立德·埃尔金迪 (Khaled Elgindy) 选择了美国与巴勒斯坦人之间关系的一个具体方面来解释这一历史进程，这是他第一本长篇著作的出版​​。以色列（在美国的盲目支持下）和巴勒斯坦人之间的权力不对称经常被提及为解决冲突的主要障碍，但可能从未像埃尔金迪那样受到如此彻底的对待。当所谓的和平进程似乎已经达到合乎逻辑的结论时，盲点就被释放了。作者追溯了美国推动的冲突的稳步恶化……