Dispatches from Palestine : the rise and fall of the Oslo peace process / Graham Usher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-190) and index.

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Contents -- List of Interviewees -- Introduction -- Part I. Preface -- 1 Why Gaza Says Yes, Mostly -- The Conditions for Withdrawal -- At a Crossroads -- Gaza Accepts -- 2 What Kind of Nation? The Rise of Hamas in the Occupied Territories -- From Culturalist Politics ... -- . . . to Political Culture -- Oslo -- The Gun -- The Olive Branch -- The Ballot Box -- A New Politics? -- An Islamist Nation ...? -- . . . or a Nationalist Islam? -- Conclusion -- 3 An Israeli Peace: an Interview with Ilan Pappe

4 Palestine: the Economic Fist in the Political Glove Gaza's New Economic Arrangment -- Unlevel Playing Fields and Closed Borders -- 5 Jabalyia and the Meaning of Return -- The Tower -- The Major's Story -- The Meaning of Return -- Part II. Preface -- 6 Bantustanisation or Binationalism? An Interview with Azmi Bishara -- 7 The Politics of Internal Security: the PA s New Intelligence Services -- The Security Forces -- Amorphousness and Murky Remits -- Israeli Connections -- Patronage, Rivalries and Keeping the Opposition in Line

The Harvest of the Security Culture 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 -- The Role of the Legislative Council -- Amending the Covenant -- The Breakdown of National Consensus -- 11 Closures, Cantons and the Palestinian Covenant -- Internal Closure -- Punishment or Policy? -- Opposition from Within -- 12The Palestinians in Israel -- 13 Shimon Peres -- a Fourth-Time Loser? -- Part III. Preface -- 14 Pictures of War

Opening the Tunnel Nationalism Resumed -- 15 Madness in Ramallah -- 16 Hizbollah, Syria and the Lebanese Elections -- Realising Ta'if -- Hizbollah's Entrée -- Realpolotik or Solidarity? Hizbollah and the Palestinians -- Lebanonisation -- Isolating Hizbollah: the 1996 Elections -- Conclusions -- 17 'All Killers': Luxor, the Gama' a and Egypt's Prisons -- The Gama'a Islamiyya -- 'Scientific Counter-terrorism' -- Al-Wadi al-Jadid -- Havoc and Destruction

18 Fatah, Hamas and the Crisis of Oslo: Interviews with Marwan Barghouti and Ibrahim Ghoshah Fatah and the Peace Process: An Interview with Marwan Barghouti -- An Intifada of a Different Kind: An Interview with Ibrahim Ghoshah -- 19 Making Peace: an Interview with Yossi Beilin -- Beilin/ Abu Mazen Understandings -- Beilin/ Eitan National Accord -- Lebanon/ Syria -- 20 Believers in Blue Jeans: an Interview with Rabbi Aryeh Deri -- Shas -- Shas and the Arab Israeli Conflict -- Shas and the Palestinians -- Shas and the Haredim

'Usher ... does the best foreign on-the-spot reporting from Palestine.' Edward Said, London Review of Books 'The reader vicariously experiences what will become great moments of popular oral history that official historians will forget in the great scheme of things.' Middle East International.

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