PART I: THE ARAB-JEWISH CONFLICT: HISTORICAL ASPECTS -- A Coffeehouse in Nineteenth-Century Jerusalem: A Precursor of Modernisation; Foreign Occupiers and Stepchildren: Zionist Discourse and the Palestinians, 1882-1848; Why Do Collaborators Collaborate? The Case of Palestinians and Zionist Institutions, 1917-1936; The "Sharettist Option" Revisited; From Eisenhower to Johnson: Shifts in US Policy Toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict. PART II: ISRAEL AND THE ARAB-STATES: BETWEEN WAR AND PEACE -- Israel in the Middle East or Israel and the Middle East: A Reappraisal; Syria and Israel: Between War and Peace; Modern Iraq, the Bath Party and Anti-Semitism; Burning the Candle at Both Ends: Lebanon and the Palestine War 1947-1949; National Visions and Multi-Communal Realities: Lebanon and Israel/Palestine in a Comparative Perspective; The Economic Factor of the Arab-Israeli Peace Process: The Cases of Egypt, Jordan and Syria; The House of ASADs Capitalism of Convenience: Economic as a Political Weapon. PART III: THE PEACE PROCESS: DYNAMICS AND MISSED OPPORTUNITIES? -- The Process that Never Was: Missed Opportunities in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1948-2000; Hudna: Origins of the Concept and its Relevance to the Arab-Israeli Conflict; From Deposit to Commitment: The Evolution of the US-Israeli-Syrian Negotiations, 1993-2000; Peace-Action and Conflict Resolution: An Israeli-Palestinian Exploration Between Coexistence and Conflict: Jewish-Arab Encounters in Israel; Breaking the Genetic Code of Conflict: Or, Why Oslo Failed; Refugees and the Legitimacy of Palestinian-Israeli Peace Making; Index.