Fallen Pillars: U.S. Policy Towards Palestine and Israel Since 1945

This is a comprehensive summary of U.S. foreign policy towards Palestine and Israel during the second half of the twentieth century. Basing itself on official U.S. documents, it focuses on the United States’ failure to live up to its international commitments concerning Jerusalem, the right of return, U.N. Security Council resolution 242, and Israeli settlements.

The new second edition of this highly acclaimed book has an updated Epilogue that covers U.S. policy through the Clinton administration and the first eighteen months of the current Bush administration. The Epilogue shows how the U.S. policy bias in favor of Israel and its interpretations of how the Oslo Accord should be implemented inevitably led to the unraveling of the peace process and set the stage for failure at the Camp David negotiations in July 2000.