Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. People and the Land -- Ancient Peoples and Culture -- The Nabateans -- Cultural and Religious Symbiosis in Canaan -- A 'Melting-Pot' Origin of Native People -- Palestinians -- 3. Biology and Ideology -- Eugenics, Population Genetics, and Political Ideology -- Genetics and the Bible -- Genetics versus Zionist Mythology -- 4. Palestinian Refugees and Their Right to Return -- Early Proposals for Population Removal -- Why Did the Palestinians Leave? -- Intention, Rhetoric, and Reality -- The Consequences of Al-Nakba -- Continued Ethnic Cleansing versus Justice and Repatriation -- The Desirability and Feasibility of Return -- 5. Jerusalem (Ur-Salem, Jebus, Yerushalaym, Al-Qods): A Pluralistic City -- Jebusites and Jerusalemites -- Changing Powers, Eternal People -- Jerusalem under Islamic Rule -- Twentieth-century Nationalism -- Reunification or Apartheid and Exclusion -- The Future: A City of Peace -- 6. Zionism -- Christian Zionism and Colonialism -- Zionism Taking Root among European Jewish Communities -- Zionism after 1948 -- Is Zionism the Mirror Image of Anti- Semitism? -- A Post-Zionist Discourse -- 7. Is Israel a Democracy? -- A Basic Analysis of the 'Basic Laws' -- The 'Absentee Laws' -- Institutionalized Discrimination -- 8. Violence and Terrorism -- The Seeds and Roots of Terrorism -- Fear -- Terrorism in the Land of Canaan -- Resistance versus Terrorism -- Justice Brings Peace, Injustice Perpetuates Violence -- 9. Human Rights -- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Torture -- Targeting Civilians -- Human Rights as the Cornerstone for Peace -- 10. The Conflict and Sustainable Development -- The Palestinian and Israeli Economies and Societies: Separate and Unequal -- Changes since 1991 -- Water -- Environmental Degradation -- Prosperity with Equality and Sustainability -- 11. The Political Context.

Natives and Zionists: An Inevitable Clash? -- Britain and France and the Zionist Program -- Britain Hands the Torch to the US -- Israeli Political Discourse -- An Era of Peace? -- Palestinian Political Discourse -- The Oslo Accords -- Might Makes Right? -- 12. The International Context and International Law -- Early International Failures -- An Illegal Partition -- The Fourth Geneva Convention -- UNSC Resolutions 242, 338, and More -- 13. Peace Can be Based on Human Rights and International Law -- Zionist Discourse -- Reality is not Conducive to a Two- State Solution -- The Politics of Justice -- Altruism is Pragmatic -- We Have Been There, Done That -- The Power of Coexistence and Non-violent Direct Action -- Psychological and Physical Apartheid -- An Inevitable Solution -- Notes -- Index.