Fifty Years War Book

	Acknowledgments	9
	Preface	11
PART 1	: Palestine, Egypt, and the New State of Israel	23
	Introduction	23
	1. The Birth of a Nation	26
	2. The Buck Stops Here	38
	3. "You Ate Me for Lunch"	48
	4. Liaisons in Paris	51
	5. Sabotage in Egypt	57
	6. The Suez War	63
PART 2	: The 1967 War	69
	Introduction	69
	7. The Gathering Storm	70
	8.  Eban's Mission	81
	9.  Eshkol's Black Sunday	88
	10. Prelude to War	96
	11. War	102
	12. Land for Peace	118
PART 3:	Sadat's Quest for Peace	123
	Introduction	123
	13. Changing Camps?	125
	14. Courting the West	132
	15. The Road to War	137
	16. War	145
	17. Sadat Astonishes the World	152
	18. Negotiating Peace at Camp David	159
PART 4	: Homelands	171
	Introduction	171
	19. The Making of Yasser Arafat	173
	20. Black Days	180
	21. "A Big Explosion Will Happen in Lebanon"	191
	22. Sharon and Gemayel	197
	23. War in Lebanon	202
	24. Homelands	207
	25. Things Fall Apart	211
PART 5	: The Road to Madrid	217
	Introduction	217
	26. Searching for Partners	219
	27. Birth of the Intifada	229
	28. Arafat's Political Initiative	238
	29. Saddam Hussein and the Mother of All Linkages	244
	30. The Road to Madrid	251
	31. The Madrid Conference	265
PART 6	: Peace at Last?	273
	Introduction	273
	32. Deadlines and Deadlocks	275
	33. Secret Talks in Oslo	278
PART 7	: Talks with Syria	315
	Introduction	315
	34. A Vicious Circle	318
	35. Giving Peace a Chance	331
	36. Netanyahu Takes Over	339
	Cast of Characters	343
	Notes on Sources	353
	Select Bibliography	355
	Notes	358
	Index	367
	About the Authors	376