Dispatches From Palestine

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.

Autorentext

Graham Usher was Palestine correspondent for the Economist and Middle East International. He is the author of Dispatches from Palestine (Pluto, 1999).

Inhalt
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
6. Bantustanisation or binationalism ? an interview with Azmi Bishara
7. The politics of internal security: the PA's new intelligence services
8. Outsider in - a profile of Palestinian Council candidate, Salah Tamari
9. The politics of atrocity
10. The Charter and the future of Palestinian politics
11. Closures, cantons and the Palestinian Covenant
12. The Palestinians in Israel
13. Shimon Peres - fourth time loser
    Post-Oslo - decline and fall
    Preface
14. Pictures of war
15. Madness in Ramallah
16. Hezballah, Syria and the Lebanese elections
17. "All killers" - Luxor, the Gamaa and Egypt's prisons
18. Fatah, Hamas and the crisis of Oslo - interviews with Marwan Barghouti and Ibrahim Ghoshah
19. Making peace - an interview with Yossi Beilin
20. Believers in blue jeans - an interview with Aryeh Deri
21. The fire the next time - Palestinians in Lebanon
22. The meaning of Shiekh Yassin
23. Impossible contradictions - Israel at 50
24. A Palestinian refugee at 51
    Notes
    Index