Examines Israeli-Palestinian relations, the PLO, Israeli politics, Lebanese factions, news reporting from the Middle East, and other issues of the Middle East.

Includes index.

A Middle East chronology -- From Minneapolis to Beirut -- pt. 1. Beirut. Would you like to eat now or wait for the cease-fire? -- Beirut : city of versions -- Hama rules -- The Teflon guerrilla -- Inside the kaleidoscope : the Israeli invasion of Lebanon -- Poker, Beirut-style -- Betty Crocker in Dante's Inferno -- The end of something -- Time to go -- pt. 2. Jerusalem. Crosswinds -- Whose country is this, anyway? -- The fault line -- The earthquake -- Under the spotlight -- Israel and American Jews : who is dreaming about whom? -- From Beirut to Jerusalem to Washington.