Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-260) and index
1. Concepts of colonization -- 2. History of colonization and Palestinian dispossession (1880-1948) -- 3. Hegemony in the Middle East -- 4. History of the Arab-Israeli wars (1949-1974) -- 5. Weapons diplomacy, the political use of arms -- 6. History of Israel’s global weapons sales -- 7. Begin, Peres, Shamir and the Madrid Conference -- 8. Rabin and the Oslo Accords -- 9. Peres and Netanyahu and Wye River -- 10. Barak and Arafat at Camp David -- 11. Ariel Sharon: force over peace -- 12. Olmert and the 2006 Lebanon war -- 13. One-state, two-state or continued apartheid? -- 14. Terrorism -- 15. The paradox of nationalism -- 16. Religion and possession in ancient Palestine.
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