If you think the Israel-Palestine conflict is too complex to understand, think again.  Palestine, Israel and the US Empire, written without academic jargon by the author and activist Richard Becker, provides a solid introduction to key events in the history underlying today's current events.  Palestine, Israel and the US Empire is unabashedly partisan toward the Palestinian cause, but the author's claims are well reasoned and documented.Richard Becker is a noted writer and commentator on Middle East affairs.  He has been a featured speaker at political forums and conferences in the United States  Becker is the Western Regional Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism).  ANSWER has organized mass protests of hundreds of thousands of people against the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine from mid-2002 to the present.  He is a regular contributor to Liberation newspaper and PSLweb.org.