Part I -- Anatomy Of A Seminal Misencounter -- First Steps, Harsh Truths -- A Secluded Northern Castle -- Back To Square One -- Longing For Hizballah -- Forcing The Leaders' Hand -- A Conceivable Endgame? -- The Promise Of An American Steamroller -- Inauspicious Beginnings -- Clinton: We Have Exhausted The Beauty Of This Place -- A Gamechanger (or So It Looked..) -- O Jerusalem (and Its Lies...) -- Saeb Erakat: Arafat Is Interested In A Crisis -- Albright's Intermezzo; Clinton's Last Push -- Our Faintest Hour -- Arafat: Barak Has Gone Beyond My Partner Rabin -- Making Most Of Success -- Moments Of Grace On Precipice Edge -- Part Ii -- A Savage War For Peace -- With Our Blood And Soul We'll Redeem Palestine -- Diplomacy Under Fire -- Trapped In No-win Conditions -- Neither Inspiring Nor Intimidating -- Take It Or Leave It -- The Clinton Peace Parameters -- A Crime Against The Palestinian People -- Barak In A Cage Of Doves -- Taba: The Boss Doesn't Want An Agreement -- Post Mortem -- Part Iii. 2001-2020: A Story Of Promise And Deceit -- The Conversion Of The Hawks -- The Impossible Triangle: Obama-netanyahu-abbas -- The Geneva Understandings As A Parable -- The Failed Zionization Of Palestine -- The International Community -- A Broken Reed -- The Occupation's Traits Of Permanence -- Part Iv. Denouements -- Ominous Unravellings -- Exit Oslo, Enter Madrid -- Part V. Defying The Logic Of Conflict Resolution -- Palestine -- A Comparative Perspective. Shlomo Ben-ami. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.