The authors offer a balanced, authoritative account of the history of the Palestinian people from their modern origins to the Oslo peace process and beyond. They unravel what went right-and what went wrong-in the process, and what lessons we can draw about the forces that help to shape a people.

In a timely reminder of how the past informs the present, the authors offer an authoritative account of the history of the Palestinian people from their modern origins to the Oslo peace process and beyond.