The walled heart of Jerusalelm: a battleground -- Jerusalem: Yerushalayim/Al Quds -- Mea Shearim: a fortress of Jewish ultra-orthodoxy -- The secular center: pragmatic politicians -- The Israel Defense Forces (IDF): the sword and social cement -- The double marginals: Israeli Arabs -- New frontiersmen: zealots on the hills -- The West Bank: a diminishing heritage of Palestinians -- Gaza: the end of the line -- The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO): armed resistance to red-carpet respectability -- The Palestinian Authority: an embryo -- Islamist opposition: Hamas and the Islamic Jihad -- Divine promises: the disputing inheritors -- Summing up the past, surmising the future.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-357) and index.