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Abstract
This is a controversial overview of the contemporary Middle East which charts the failure of the Oslo Agreement. It analyses the key processes that structure the Oslo process: economic, military, political and cultural.
'The reader vicariously experiences what will become great moments of popular oral history that official historians will forget in the great scheme of things'
Middle East International
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | v | ||
| List of Interviewees | vii | ||
| Introduction | 1 | ||
| Part 1. Oslo One – Gaza/Jericho First September 1993 to September 1995 | 7 | ||
| Preface | 9 | ||
| 1 Why Gaza Says Yes, Mostly | 12 | ||
| Part 2.Oslo Two – Oslo’s High Tide September 1995 to May 1996 | 53 | ||
| Preface | 55 | ||
| 6 Bantustanisation or Binationalism? An Interview with Azmi Bishara | 59 | ||
| 7 The Politics of Internal Security: the PA™s New Intelligence Services | 67 | ||
| 8 Outsider In: a Profile of Palestinian Council Candidate Salah Tamari | 80 | ||
| 9 The Politics of Atrocity | 83 | ||
| 10 The Charter and the Future of Palestinian Politics | 88 | ||
| 11 Closures, Cantons and the Palestinian Covenant | 94 | ||
| 12 The Palestinians in Israel | 103 | ||
| 13 Shimon Peres - a Fourth-Time Loser? | 107 | ||
| Part 3. Post-Oslo – Decline and Fall May 1996 to December 1998 | 111 | ||
| Preface | 113 | ||
| 14 Pictures of War | 117 | ||
| 15 Madness in Ramallah | 120 | ||
| 16 Hizbollah, Syria and the Lebanese Elections | 122 | ||
| 17 'All Killers': Luxor, the Gama'a and Egypt's Prisons | 130 | ||
| 18 Fatah, Hamas and the Crisis of Oslo: Interviews with Marwan Barghouti and Ibrahim Ghoshah | 136 | ||
| 19 Making Peace: an Interview with Yossi Beilin | 145 | ||
| 20 Believers in Blue Jeans: an Interview with Rabbi Aryeh Deri | 151 | ||
| 21 The Fire the Next Time? Palestinians in Lebanon | 162 | ||
| 22 The Meaning of Sheikh Yassin | 166 | ||
| 23 Impossible Contradictions - Israel at 50 | 169 | ||
| 24 A Palestinian Refugee at 51 | 172 | ||
| References | 176 | ||
| Maps | vi | ||
| 1 Palestinian Autonomous Area - Gaza strip 1994 | 10 | ||
| 2 Areas of National Priority - 1997 | 56 | ||
| 3 West Bank - 1998 | 114 | ||
| Index | 191 | ||
| INFOLINKER | i |