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.

Preface
1. Why Gaza says yes, mostly

2. What kind of nation ? The rise of Hamas in the occupied territories

3. An Israeli peace - an interview with Ilan Pappe

4. Palestine - the economic fist in the political glove

5. The meaning of return

Oslo two - Oslo's high tide

Preface

1. Bantustanisation or binationalism ? an interview with Azmi Bishara

2. The politics of internal security: the PA's new intelligence services

3. Outsider in - a profile of Palestinian Council candidate, Salah Tamari

4. The politics of atrocity

5. The Charter and the future of Palestinian politics

6. Closures, cantons and the Palestinian Covenant

7. The Palestinians in Israel

8. Shimon Peres - fourth time loser

Post-Oslo - decline and fall

Preface

1. Pictures of war

2. Madness in Ramallah

3. Hezballah, Syria and the Lebanese elections

4. "All killers" - Luxor, the Gamaa and Egypt's prisons

5. Fatah, Hamas and the crisis of Oslo - interviews with Marwan Barghouti and Ibrahim Ghoshah

6. Making peace - an interview with Yossi Beilin

7. Believers in blue jeans - an interview with Aryeh Deri

8. The fire the next time - Palestinians in Lebanon

9. The meaning of Shiekh Yassin

10. Impossible contradictions - Israel at 50

11. A Palestinian refugee at 51

Notes

Index