Tested by Zion
The Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Abrams takes you inside the White House to understand how American policy toward Israel and the Palestinians was really made.

Elliott Abrams (Author)

9781107428034, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 14 July 2014

352 pages
23.4 x 15.6 x 1.9 cm, 0.5 kg

'From his experience as a senior adviser on the US National Security Council, Abrams provides an intelligent and astonishingly detailed chronicle of the George W. Bush administration's failed attempts at solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.' John Waterbury, Foreign Affairs

This book tells the full inside story of the Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Written by a top National Security Council officer who worked at the White House with Bush, Cheney, and Rice and attended dozens of meetings with figures like Sharon, Mubarak, the kings of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and Palestinian leaders, it brings the reader inside the White House and the palaces of Middle Eastern officials. How did 9/11 change American policy toward Arafat and Sharon's tough efforts against the Second Intifada? What influence did the Saudis have on President Bush? Did the American approach change when Arafat died? How did Sharon decide to get out of Gaza, and why did the peace negotiations fail? In the first book by an administration official to focus on Bush and the Middle East, Elliott Abrams brings the story of Bush, the Israelis, and the Palestinians to life.

1. Early days
2. 9/11 and the search for a policy
3. Roadmap to disengagement
4. 'New realities on the ground'
5. Arafat, disengagement, Sharon
6. Olmert - peace or war?
7. War in Lebanon - and Condi
8. From Mecca to Annapolis
9. The 'meeting' at Annapolis
10. Final days in Gaza and Turtle Bay
11. Lessons learned
12. Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Military history [HBW], 21st century history: from c 2000 - [HBLX], History of the Americas [HBJK], Middle Eastern history [HBJF1]