1948 and after -- The Balfour Declaration and its consequences -- The civil war in Palestine -- The rise and fall of the all-Palestine government in Gaza -- Did they leave or were they pushed? -- Husni Zaim and the plan to resettle Palestinian refugees in Syria -- All the difference -- Israel's dirty war -- The struggle for Jordan -- Abu Nidal, Abu Shmidal -- Sleepless afternoons -- To Oslo and beyond -- The face that launched a thousand MiGs -- Arab nationalism and its discontents -- Israel and the Gulf -- Changing the places : the Madrid Peace Conference -- Prelude to the Oslo Accord : Likud, Labour, and the Palestinians -- The rise and fall of the Oslo peace process -- Woman of the year -- Overtaken by events -- The Likud in power : the historiography of revisionist Zionism -- Capital folly -- The breakdown of the peace process -- The lost steps -- George W. Bush and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict -- Ariel Sharon's war against the Palestinians -- Palestine and Iraq -- Israel's war against Hamas : rhetoric and reality -- Perspectives -- His royal shyness : King Hussein and Israel -- Edward Said and the Palestine question -- Four days in Seville -- Benny Morris and the betrayal of history -- Free speech? Not for critics of Israel.