Books by Alan Hart

A former ITN and BBC Panorama correspondent, Alan Hart has a vast amount of first-hand knowledge of the conflict in and over Palestine. Over more than three decades he enjoyed intimate access to many of the leaders on both sides, and in particular, Golda Meir, Mother Israel, and Yasser Arafat, Father Palestine. Hart's book Arafat, Terrorist or Peacemaker?, first published in 1984, invited readers to consider the proposition that the PLO leader was ready, willing and able to make peace on terms which any rational government and people in Israel would accept with relief. Hart was also a participant at leadership level in the secret politics of the search for peace (as an intermediary between Arafat and Israeli opposition leader Shimon Peres when it was presumed that Peres would become prime minister