Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments: Second Edition , Preface and Acknowledgments: First Edition , Acronyms , The Question of Palestine and the Palestinians , Before al-Nakbah , The Road to al-Nakbah , After al-Nakbah , After al-Nakbah , The Rise and Fall of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, 1948–1993 , Palestinian Resistance to Israeli Occupation , The PLO-Israel Oslo Accords , The Structural Flaws of Oslo and Camp David II, and the Second Intifada , Palestinian Refugees and Their Right of Return , Jerusalem , From Camp David to the Road Map , Whither the Palestinians? , UN Security Council Resolution 242, November 22, 1967 , The Balfour Declaration , McMahon-Hussein Correspondence, 1915–1916 , Excerpts from the Report of the King-Crane Commission, August 18, 1919 , UN General Assembly Resolution 181 on the Future Government of Palestine, November 29, 1947 (The Partition Plan) , UN General Assembly Resolution 194, December 11, 1948 (The Right of Return) , UN General Assembly Resolution 3236, November 22, 1974 , UN Security Council Resolution 338, October 22, 1973 , Excerpts from the Declaration of Palestinian Independence, November 15, 1988 , The Stockholm Statement, December 7, 1988 , The Palestinian Peace Initiative, December 13, 1988: Excerpts from the Speech by Yasser Arafat to the UN General Assembly in Geneva , UN Security Council Resolution 298 on Jerusalem, September 25, 1971 , Article 27 of the Charter of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas): [On the] Palestine Liberation Organization