Khaled Elgindy on his book: Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump

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🗓️ 1 March 2024

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Khaled Elgindy is a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute where he also directs MEI’s Program on Palestine and Israeli-Palestinian Affairs. He is the author of the book, Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump. In this episode we talk about the internal political struggles among Palestinian leadership and the US’s involvement in the failed peace agreements between Israel and Palestine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone I'm Brinay Brown and this is unlocking us.
0:03.0	This is part three of a three-part series focusing on Israel and Palestine and it's a follow-up to an essay I
0:16.7	posted on Renee Brown.com. As I've mentioned the first two podcasts, the discourse was really tough on the comment section of the
0:24.4	website but really smart and some people agreed and some people were
0:29.9	really disappointed and hurt and pissed off. I was held accountable in
0:33.7	important ways. I just think it was the right discourse. You're going to see that on
0:38.5	issues like this, I probably will not be having these conversations on social
0:42.0	media.
0:43.1	They'll be happening, I think, in a place where
0:46.4	there's more room to expand the comments
0:51.5	were such important debate and discourse, so thank y'all for that.
0:55.0	My intention for sharing a new essay in these podcast episodes is to really share what I'm
1:00.1	learning for the purpose of, for me me personally to be a better global citizen and more importantly
1:05.8	I want to highlight the work of people that have really dedicated their lives to bringing
1:20.0	justice and peace and equality to people who deserve it so much. All three of the episodes are dropping this week. I have talked to Palestinian Israeli activists on the ground.
1:27.5	You've met folks from the Parent Circle Family Forum, from Tahir, that's Alleabu Awad. We talked in the last
1:36.4	podcast to the folks of standing together and today I am talking to Halid El
1:42.2	Gindi. He is a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute where he also directs the Middle East Institute's program on Palestine and Israeli Palestinian affairs.
1:52.0	He's the author of the book Blind Spot, America
1:56.2	and the Palestinians from Balfour to Trump.
1:59.0	He has served as a fellow in the foreign policy program of the Brookings Institution. He did that from 2010 to 2018. Prior to being at Brookings, he served as an advisor to the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah on permanent status negotiations with Israel from 2004 to 2009.
2:17.2	He was also a key participant in the Annapolis negotiations of 2007-2008. He is an adjunct instructor in Arab Studies at Georgetown University.
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