In the latest episode of Always at War, Courtney and Alex sit down with QI Senior Research Fellow Khaled Elgindy — former adviser to the Palestinian leadership on permanent status negotiations with Israel and author of Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump — to understand why America's constant interventions in the Israel-Palestine peace process have been doomed to failure.

Khaled walks Courtney and Alex through decades of US-brokered peace processes from Oslo to Annapolis — when the US consistently avoided the hard questions on settlements, occupation, and Jerusalem, bent the rules for Israel, put the pressure on Palestinians, and called it diplomacy. Today, that blind spot has only grown: the current administration just reneged on its own Gaza ceasefire deal rather than hold Israel to a reciprocal agreement, while settler violence in the West Bank hits its worst levels since 1967 and settlement expansion reaches record highs.

Read Khaled's latest piece in Responsible Statecraft: "Bored of Peace: Why Is Trump Undermining His Own Gaza Plan?" — https://responsiblestatecraft.org/hamas-disarmament/

Pick up his book, Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump: https://bookshop.org/p/books/blind-spot-america-and-the-palestinians-from-balfour-to-trump-khaled-elgindy/db594b89289c62a1?ean=9780815731559&bkshp-astro=t

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Why is America always at war? Join the Quincy Institute’s Courtney Rawlings and Alex Jordan as they expose the monied interests, outdated ideologies, and entrenched powers that have driven the U.S. to wage nearly 400 wars and interventions.

They’ll be joined by journalists, advocates, and experts to uncover who profits from America’s endless conflicts, and to imagine how we can build a better, more peaceful U.S. foreign policy.

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Show art by Justin Hantz

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