Dispatches From Palestine

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

'The reader vicariously experiences what will become great moments of popular oral history that official historians will forget in the great scheme of things'

• Preface1. Why Gaza says yes, mostly2. What kind of nation ? The rise of Hamas in the occupied territories3. An Israeli peace - an interview with Ilan Pappe4. Palestine - the economic fist in the political glove5. The meaning of returnOslo two - Oslo's high tidePreface1. Bantustanisation or binationalism ? an interview with Azmi Bishara2. The politics of internal security: the PA's new intelligence services3. Outsider in - a profile of Palestinian Council candidate, Salah Tamari4. The politics of atrocity5. The Charter and the future of Palestinian politics6. Closures, cantons and the Palestinian Covenant7. The Palestinians in Israel8. Shimon Peres - fourth time loserPost-Oslo - decline and fallPreface1. Pictures of war2. Madness in Ramallah3. Hezballah, Syria and the Lebanese elections4. "All killers" - Luxor, the Gamaa and Egypt's prisons5. Fatah, Hamas and the crisis of Oslo - interviews with Marwan Barghouti and Ibrahim Ghoshah6. Making peace - an interview with Yossi Beilin7. Believers in blue jeans - an interview with Aryeh Deri8. The fire the next time - Palestinians in Lebanon9. The meaning of Shiekh Yassin10. Impossible contradictions - Israel at 5011. A Palestinian refugee at 51NotesIndex