Once upon a country : a Palestinian life

Prologue  A Fairy Tale......................................3One  The Key................................................15Two  The Pan-Arab Nation....................................21Three  Promises, Promises...................................25Four  The Herod's Gate Committee............................38Five  The Pepper Tree.......................................57Six  A Grapevine............................................85Seven  Smashing Idols.......................................104Eight  Sunflower............................................129Nine  Monticello............................................138Ten  The Lemon Tree Caf��....................................151Eleven  The Salon...........................................171Twelve  Military Order 854..................................184Thirteen  Masquerade........................................202Fourteen  Murder on the Via Dolorosa........................215Fifteen  Faisal Husseini....................................229Sixteen  Annex Us!..........................................235Seventeen  Sticks and Stones................................248Eighteen  The Exorcism......................................264Nineteen  A Declaration of Independence.....................280Twenty  Interrogation.......................................290Twenty-one  Ramle Prison....................................314Twenty-two  Madrid..........................................336Twenty-three  A Shadow Government...........................353Twenty-four  Oslo...........................................364Twenty-five  The Disappearance..............................383Twenty-six  Porcupines and Roosters.........................400Twenty-seven  Holy of Holies................................420Twenty-eight  The Possessed.................................428Twenty-nine  Allies.........................................444Thirty  Checkmate...........................................456Thirty-one  The Iron Fist...................................478Thirty-two  "The Tigers"....................................497Thirty-three  The Perfect Crime.............................510Epilogue  A Night Journey...................................528Notes.......................................................537Acknowledgments.............................................543

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