Once Upon a Country

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

Notes 537
Acknowledgements 543
Index 545