Part 1 Palestine: the Jews - the Jewish people, anti-semitism, Zionism, Theodore Herzl; the Arabs - the Arabs of Palestine, the Ottoman empire, the Arabs and the First World War, Britain and the Zioninsts, the Middle East after the war; Palestine - Britain and the mandate, mountain troubles 1920-36, the Peel commission 1937, the Arab revolt 1937-39. Part 2 Israel and the Arab world: the birth of Israel 1948-49 - preparing for war November 1947-May 1948, the war of 1948, refugees; Israelis and Palestinians 1949-55 - developing Israel's economy, nation building, Israel and the Palestinians; Arab nationalism, Nasser and the Suez war - the Arab states, plans and plots 1956, the Suez war; uneasy peace and Six Day war - in search of Arab unity, the Palestinians and the PLO, the Six Day war, after the Six Day war; Israel and the Palestinians after 1967 - Palestinians under Israeli rule, Palestinians in the front line of terrorism; the Yom Kippur war - steps to war 1970-73, the Yom Kippur war, oil and diplomacy, Yasser Arafat; Egypt and Israel make peace - new faces and new policies, the Camp David agreements, the occupied territories after 1979; Lebanon - Background to a troubled country, independent Lebanon, the PLO and Syria intervene, the Israeli invasions, Israel and Lebanon 1982-85, after 1985 still a troubled country.
