Israeli and Palestinian narratives of conflict history`s double helix

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Building legitimacy through narrative / Robert I. Rotberg -- Israeli-Jewish narratives of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: evolution, contents, functions, and consequences / Daniel Bar-Tal and Gavriel Salomon -- Forging Zionist identity prior to 1948 : against which counter-identity? / Dina Porat -- The Arab and Palestinian narratives of the 1948 war / Saleh Abdel Jawad -- Zionism's encounter with the Palestinians : the dynamics of force, fear, and extremism / Nadim N. Rouhana -- Conflicting narratives or narratives of a conflict : can the Zionist and Palestinian narratives of the 1948 War be bridged? / Mordechai Bar-On -- Narratives and myths about Arab intransigence toward Israel / Mark Tessler -- The bridging narrative concept / Ilan Pappe -- The psychology of better dialogue between two separate but interdependent narratives / Dan Bar-On and Sami Adwan -- Contesting national identity in Palestinian education / Nathan J. Brown -- The dynamics of identity construction in Israel through education in history / Eyal Naveh.