introduction : two worlds collide: Dispelling myths ; Defining the conflict ; The setting : Ottoman Palestine
The Jewish story : a fossilized relic?: The theme of persecution ; "Come, let us go" ; Herzl and the Second Aliyah ; First encounters
The Arab story: The glory of Islam ; The rise of the West ; Palestine and Palestinism ; First encounters ; The debut of Arab nationalism
The emergence of Israel: The British Mandate ; A mischievous pretence? ; Holocaust and partition ; The War of Independence/An-Nakba : the second stage of the conflict ; Nasser and nationalism
The re-emergence of the Palestinians: The war that no one wanted? ; The peculiar legacy of 1967 ; The decade of Sadat : entering the third stage of the conflict ; The Lebanese tangle ; Shaking things up : the first intifada
The first pass at peace: The Oslo breakthrough ; The rocky road to peace ; What went wrong? ; The roof falls in
The fourth stage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The end of the Arafat era ; Israel turns to unilateralism ; A turning point : ideology prevails ; Palestinian unilateralism
The impasse that remains: The end of the two-state solution? ; Territory and settlements ; Jerusalem ; Security issues ; Refugees ; A general prognosis
The perfect conflict: Right against right? ; A practical solution ; Building foundations : extremists and illusions ; Reflections.
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Israel/Palestine by Alan Dowty. ISBN 9780745656120. Published by Polity in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
