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| Acknowledgements | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Prologue: Oslo Fades: March-June 2000 | ||
| A Report from the Extreme Center | 3 | |
| My Visit to Palestine | 6 | |
| Pt. I | The End of Peace?: June 2000-February 2002 | |
| In This Heat | 13 | |
| Descent from the Summit | 15 | |
| What Started the al-Aqsa Intifada? | 19 | |
| Netanyahu's Return? | 21 | |
| Strike and Martyrdom | 22 | |
| Today I Went to Jerusalem | 26 | |
| Bloodied and Battered | 29 | |
| Report from Jerusalem's Old City | 29 | |
| Seed of Peace | 31 | |
| That Boy Who Wore our Hand-Me-Downs | 32 | |
| Cheers Hezbollah! | 40 | |
| Lynching in Ramallah | 42 | |
| Sharm El-Sheikh: An Armed and Temporary Truce | 45 | |
| A New Perspective | 48 | |
| Arafat Failed to Lead | 50 | |
| Car Bomb Kills Two in Jerusalem | 52 | |
| Gush Katif Schoolbus | 53 | |
| Barak Pulls the Ripcord | 55 | |
| Only Agendas Go to Washington | 56 | |
| Violence Galvanizes Arab-Americans | 57 | |
| Election Diary | 58 | |
| Mideast Negotiators Want to Continue Talks | 66 | |
| The Outcome of Taba | 67 | |
| Grandfather's Olive Groves | 69 | |
| Now It's the Right's Turn | 72 | |
| Pt. II | Sharon: February-September 2001 | |
| Did I Really Just Vote for Ariel Sharon? | 77 | |
| Bare Chests | 79 | |
| Runaway | 82 | |
| Israel Declares Palestinian Authority "terrorist" | 84 | |
| A Convergence of Interest | 85 | |
| Three Down, Seven to Go | 89 | |
| Two Silver Platters | 90 | |
| Walking the Via Dolorosa | 93 | |
| Faces of Gaza | 96 | |
| Dark Nights in Neve Dekalim, Gaza | 98 | |
| Reunion in New York | 100 | |
| The Dolphinarium Disco | 101 | |
| Nice and Nasty | 103 | |
| When They Go to Die | 107 | |
| Sbarro | 111 | |
| Orient House is in Our Hands! | 113 | |
| An Eye for an Eye | 115 | |
| Assassination | 117 | |
| Warrior Talk | 118 | |
| Hebron: What More Has to Happen? | 123 | |
| Pt. III | A New World?: September 2001-March 2002 | |
| New York | 129 | |
| Learn From Us | 130 | |
| The Beginning of the Twenty-First Century | 131 | |
| Made in the USA | 131 | |
| Arafat is Our Bin Laden | 133 | |
| Kristal-knock | 135 | |
| Religious War | 137 | |
| All Too Eager | 140 | |
| Palestine is Not Yours, bin Laden | 141 | |
| On the Run | 144 | |
| Gandhi and Bethlehem | 145 | |
| A Day in the Life | 149 | |
| Rumors | 151 | |
| Nest of Angels | 152 | |
| The Rights of Return | 155 | |
| The Karine-A Affair | 157 | |
| Al-Jazeera and the Intifada | 161 | |
| The Generals' Grand Design | 166 | |
| Hydrochloric Acid | 168 | |
| Democracy in the Middle East? | 169 | |
| Saudi Arabia's Peace Plan | 170 | |
| Clashes in Balata Refugee Camp | 172 | |
| Rafah Camps: On the Border with Egypt | 173 | |
| Beit Yisrael Bombing | 175 | |
| Guerrilla Warfare | 177 | |
| Suicide Attack Hits Jerusalem Cafe | 179 | |
| March 13, 2002: The Camps | 179 | |
| Hugging Madiba | 182 | |
| Israel Plans Big Assault if Truce Talks Fail | 186 | |
| Passover in Netanya | 186 | |
| Pt. IV | The Maelstrom: March-June 2002 | |
| March 28, 2002 | 197 | |
| March 29, 2002 | 198 | |
| March 30, 2002 | 199 | |
| Three Days in Ramallah | 203 | |
| April 1, 2002 | 212 | |
| April 2, 2002 | 213 | |
| April 4, 2002 | ||
| Hakam Kanafani | 215 | |
| April 5, 2002 | 218 | |
| April 6, 2002 | 220 | |
| Reoccupation | 223 | |
| Are the Americans Serious This Time? | 224 | |
| April 8-9, 2002 | 226 | |
| Israel's Strategy | 231 | |
| Race to the Summit | 232 | |
| April 12, 2002 | 237 | |
| Hope Over the Wires | 240 | |
| Arresting Barghouti | 241 | |
| Another World | 242 | |
| Nakba Day in Palestine | 242 | |
| All the Same | 244 | |
| Anti-Semitism as Metaphor | 245 | |
| Specific and Well Organized | 247 | |
| Hebron: Invasion | 250 | |
| Losing My Cool | 251 | |
| The Politics of Victimhood | 253 | |
| Internationalizing the Process | 256 | |
| The Football Stadium | 258 | |
| Inside the Church of the Nativity | 262 | |
| Caught in the Current | 268 | |
| Between Victory and Defeat | 271 | |
| My Meeting with Yasser Arafat | 272 | |
| A Narrowing View | 273 | |
| Different Universes | 274 | |
| Waiting | 275 | |
| Flag in Amsterdam | 276 | |
| Separation | 277 | |
| I'm Just a Little Girl | 279 | |
| "Border" | 281 | |
| Pt. V | Hope and Tanks: June-September 2002 | |
| "Elect New Leaders" | 285 | |
| Operation Determined Path | 286 | |
| "In Your Own House" | 286 | |
| The Mouth and the Hand | 287 | |
| Crescent News Network | 288 | |
| Fired for Being Israeli | 289 | |
| Days Go By | 293 | |
| Thousands of Flags | 294 | |
| We'll Choose our Leaders | 295 | |
| Life Returning | 295 | |
| A Very Long Time | 296 | |
| Buried with Chocolate in his Hand | 297 | |
| Civilian Occupation | 298 | |
| Israelis Backtrack on University Raid | 299 | |
| Boycott | 299 | |
| Life Goes On | 300 | |
| Terror near Emmanuel | 301 | |
| "I Am Going to Die Tonight" | 301 | |
| Why? | 303 | |
| Shehadeh | 304 | |
| The Statement Drafted Before Shehadeh's Death | 304 | |
| The Dolphinarium, Sbarro, Netanya ... | 308 | |
| A Plea to Archbishop Tutu | 308 | |
| Security Cannot Come from the Barrel of a Gun | 310 | |
| A New Generation | 312 | |
| What is the Point of a Mandela? | 314 | |
| We Can't Go Back to 1967 | 316 | |
| Hebrew University | 318 | |
| Unique | 318 | |
| Changing the Game | 322 | |
| Visions Old and New | 324 | |
| Rusty Nails | 327 | |
| The Two Apartheids | 328 | |
| A State for All Its Citizens | 329 | |
| The Miracle of Mitzna | 332 | |
| Blood and Power | 332 | |
| Inclusion | 333 | |
| Mandela to Observe Fatah Leader's Trial | 334 | |
| Smoke | 335 | |
| Gaza-Bethlehem First | 335 | |
| Everything Is Still Open | 337 | |
| US Hawks Have a Plan for Mideast | 338 | |
| On The Edge | 339 | |
| Poison Comes from Within | 340 | |
| The Years Pile Up Like Bones | 341 | |
| Facts | 345 | |
| Voices | 347 | |
| Sources | 361 |
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Brandon Boucher
reviewed Peace Fire: Fragments from the Israel-Palestine Story on December 10, 2012
Peace Fire
This is a portion of Hew Strachan's larger series on the First World War. This part is strictly dealing with the battles for control of Germany's African colonies. Togo, Cameroons, South-West Africa and German East Africa (Tanzania) were all conquered by the British and French by the end of the war in Europe.
Though the British fought Togo and Cameroons with mostly African troops, South-West and German East Africa were fought with combinations of South Africans (mostly Boers) and East Indians. It wasn't until the last two years of the war that the fighting was Africanized using South African Officers.
The greatest story of all these minor wars was the way Paul Lettow-Vorbeck who was in command of the German troops in East Africa, was able to stay on the run for the whole war and only surrendered after the Armistice in November 1918. Though Lettow never fought a truly guerilla war, he did pit his undermanned command of 3,000 whites and 7-10,000 Askaris (African troops) against twenty five thousand South Africans and 30,000 indigenous troops.
As much as Strachan derides Lettow's accomplishments (he kept an army in the field for over 4 years), Lettow was well respected by his contemporaries. One of the failures of the British was the used of Indian conscripts who never acclimated to Africa and mounted South African troops. During the war the British lost twice as many troops to disease (6K+) as they did to casualties (3K+). The Indians were very susceptible to malaria, and the South African horses to the tsetse flies.
Whereas Lettow used only local bearers and his own soldiers to carry material, the British were dependent on conscripted bearers. In the climate of parts of East Africa, many bearers died from disease and starvation. At one point the British had 'wastage' (Strachan's word for death) of 90% of 20,000 bearers that they were using. Lettow had a large contingent of officers and NCOs whereas the British were using subalterns and other untried officers.
Lettow forced the British to follow him all across East Africa and at the end of war though a large part of Mozambique. This strategy allowed him to live off the land but by the time the British came through he had stripped the area of food. The British were forced to use bearers to carry food, but for long marches, the bearers had to carry their own food too, leaving only 40% of the food for the soldiers.
Strachan has the true British attitude to the non-white troops and bearers. He talks about how the Indians were poorly trained and led and then complains that they were ineffectual. He cavalierly throws out the number of 100K African bearers who died during the war from starvation and disease. This 'wastage' was just the 'cost' of fighting the war, but may explain why Lettow was well treated by the 'locals'.
This is a very well documented description of the people and personalities involved (except the Africans) but is very Anglo-centric.
Zeb Kantrowitz
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