BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 HISTORIC PALESTINE -- THE STONE AGE AND THE COPPER AGE -- THE BRONZE AGE -- THE IRON AGE -- THE ISRAELITES IN PALESTINE -- ASSYRIAN AND BABYLONIAN RULE -- THE PERSIAN EMPIRE -- FROM ALEXANDER THE GREAT TO 70 CE -- THE PTOLEMIES -- THE SELEUCIDS -- THE HASMONEAN PRIEST-PRINCES -- THE HERODIAN HOUSE AND THE ROMAN PROCURATORS -- ROMAN PALESTINE -- FROM THE ARAB CONQUEST TO 1900 -- UMAYYAD RULE -- 'ABBASID RULE -- THE FATIMID DYNASTY -- THE CRUSADES -- OTTOMAN RULE -- FROM 1900 TO 1948 -- WORLD WAR I AND AFTER -- THE BRITISH MANDATE -- THE ARAB REVOLT -- WORLD WAR II -- THE EARLY POSTWAR PERIOD -- CIVIL WAR IN PALESTINE -- CHAPTER 2 TOWARD THE EMERGENCE OF PALESTINIAN AUTONOMY -- THE PARTITION OF PALESTINE AND ITS AFTERMATH (1948-67) -- THE TERM "PALESTINIAN" -- THE ISRAELI ARABS -- WEST BANK (AND JORDANIAN) PALESTINIANS -- PALESTINIANS IN THE GAZA STRIP -- UNRWA CAMPS -- PALESTINIANS OUTSIDE MANDATED PALESTINE -- RESURGENCE OF PALESTINIAN IDENTITY -- THE ROLE OF CAMPS -- THE ROLE OF PALESTINIANS OUTSIDE FORMERLY MANDATED PALESTINE -- THE PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION -- FATAH AND OTHER GUERRILLA ORGANIZATIONS -- THE ARAB-ISRAELI WAR OF 1967 AND ITS CONSEQUENCES -- THE PLO'S RISE AS A REVOLUTIONARY FORCE -- THE PLO'S STRUGGLE FOR PALESTINIAN AUTONOMY -- NEGOTIATIONS, VIOLENCE, AND INCIPIENT SELF-RULE -- THE CAMP DAVID ACCORDS AND THE PLO -- THE DISPERSAL OF THE PLO FROM LEBANON -- YEARS OF MOUNTING VIOLENCE -- THE INTIFADAH -- THE MOVE TOWARD SELF-RULE -- CHAPTER 3 ISRAEL: THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE -- RELIEF -- DRAINAGE -- SOILS -- CLIMATE -- PLANT AND ANIMAL LIFE -- RELIGIOUS AND ETHNIC GROUPS -- JEWS -- ARABS -- OTHER GROUPS -- SETTLEMENT PATTERNS -- RURAL SETTLEMENT -- URBAN SETTLEMENT -- DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS -- CHAPTER 4 THE ISRAELI ECONOMY -- AGRICULTURE AND FISHING.

RESOURCES AND POWER -- MANUFACTURING -- FINANCE -- TRADE -- SERVICES -- LABOUR AND TAXATION -- TRANSPORTATION -- CHAPTER 5 ISRAELI GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY -- LOCAL AND REGIONAL GOVERNMENT -- JUSTICE -- POLITICAL PROCESS -- ISRAELI-OCCUPIED ARAB TERRITORIES -- SECURITY -- HEALTH AND WELFARE -- EDUCATION -- CHAPTER 6 ISRAELI CULTURAL LIFE -- THE ARTS -- CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS -- SPORTS AND RECREATION -- MEDIA AND PUBLISHING -- CHAPTER 7 ISRAEL: PAST AND PRESENT -- ORIGINS OF A MODERN JEWISH STATE -- ZIONISM -- IMMIGRATION AND CONFLICT -- THE WAR OF 1948 AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ISRAEL -- THE BEN-GURION ERA -- EMERGENCE OF A NATION -- CONTINUING TENSIONS -- THE SUEZ CRISIS -- LABOUR RULE AFTER BEN-GURION -- THE SIX-DAY WAR -- TROUBLED VICTORY -- THE WAR OF ATTRITION -- THE YOM KIPPUR WAR AND THE DECLINE OF LABOUR DOMINANCE -- POLITICAL AND SOCIAL REPERCUSSIONS OF THE WAR -- DIPLOMATIC IMPASSE -- ISRAEL UNDER LIKUD -- THE BEGINNING OF THE PEACE PROCESS -- CAMP DAVID -- A COLD PEACE -- WAR IN LEBANON -- THE NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT -- THE INTIFADAH -- THE QUESTION OF PALESTINIAN AUTONOMY -- THE GULF WAR AND THE MADRID CONFERENCE -- THE RABIN GOVERNMENT -- THE OSLO ACCORDS -- ECONOMIC BOOM -- OSLO II AND RABIN'S ASSASSINATION -- A NEW POLITICAL LANDSCAPE -- THE NETANYAHU PREMIERSHIP -- THE BARAK GAMBLE -- THE SECOND INTIFADAH -- A CHANGING SOCIETY -- CONCLUSION -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- BACK COVER.