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List of illustrations | p. x |
List of maps | p. xii |
Acknowledgements | p. xiii |
Glossaries | p. xv |
Chronology | p. xxv |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Zionism and security | p. 10 |
Zionism beyond demonization | p. 10 |
The need for security | p. 23 |
Jewish socialism and Arab nationalism | p. 30 |
The Hebrew republic | p. 38 |
The end of empire | p. 38 |
Defeat and victory in 1948 | p. 43 |
Exile and return | p. 49 |
New immigrants and first elections | p. 54 |
The survivors | p. 54 |
Jewish immigration into Palestine | p. 62 |
The first elections | p. 65 |
The dominance of Mapai | p. 70 |
The politics of piety | p. 78 |
The balancing act | p. 78 |
Who is a Jew? | p. 85 |
The arrival of the Sephardim | p. 91 |
Retaliation or self-restraint | p. 98 |
Ben-Gurion, Sharett and Dayan | p. 98 |
The developing schism | p. 102 |
Nasser's metamorphosis | p. 108 |
Stalin's embrace | p. 109 |
The return of Ben-Gurion | p. 112 |
The search for arms | p. 114 |
The road to Suez | p. 119 |
The rise of the Right | p. 123 |
The Six Day war | p. 123 |
Destroying Mapai from within | p. 125 |
Out of the underground | p. 130 |
The ideology of occupation | p. 134 |
Judea and Samaria | p. 141 |
The road to Beirut | p. 147 |
Menachem Begin's leadership | p. 147 |
Who are the Palestinians? | p. 150 |
The reality of negotiations | p. 156 |
A more radical hue | p. 165 |
Dissent at home and abroad | p. 175 |
The end of consensus | p. 175 |
The peace camp | p. 181 |
Traditional Diaspora opinions | p. 186 |
A new assertive generation | p. 191 |
An insurrection before a handshake | p. 198 |
The man from Lehi | p. 198 |
A new path for the Palestinians | p. 201 |
The outbreak of the Intifada | p. 203 |
An Israeli awakening | p. 207 |
The fall and rise of ideology | p. 211 |
Constraining the Prime Minister | p. 213 |
From Kuwait to Madrid | p. 220 |
The end of ideology? | p. 227 |
The problem solver | p. 227 |
The Oslo breakthrough | p. 232 |
The PLO in crisis | p. 236 |
The killing of a Prime Minister | p. 244 |
The return of the rejectionists | p. 244 |
The Right's backlash | p. 255 |
Rabbis and ayatollahs | p. 262 |
The magician and the bulldozer | p. 267 |
The virtual and the real Likud | p. 267 |
A return to Camp David | p. 275 |
A long walk to disaster | p. 281 |
The descent into the abyss | p. 284 |
'He does not stop at the red light' | p. 289 |
2001: a Sharon odyssey | p. 289 |
The Palestinian struggle within | p. 298 |
Islamism ascending | p. 307 |
Disengagement from Gaza | p. 314 |
An unlikely grandfather | p. 321 |
Ideology and evacuation | p. 321 |
Separating from the Palestinians | p. 326 |
Between pragmatism and ideology | p. 332 |
Olmert's arrival | p. 337 |
Bibliography | p. 351 |
Index | p. 356 |
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