Table of Contents

DEDICATION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 Palestine Under Ottoman Rule CHAPTER 2 The Origins of Conflict: Israel And The Palestinians CHAPTER 3 From Algiers To Oslo CHAPTER 4 Failure At Camp David And The Collapse of Oslo CHAPTER 5 Resurrecting The Oslo Accords: The Mitchell Report CHAPTER 6 Israel's Policy Of Unilateral Disengagement CHAPTER 7 Palestinian Elections And New Tensions With Israel CHAPTER 8 The Road Map To Peace And Alternatives To Oslo CHAPTER 9 Why Oslo Failed: A Historiography CHAPTER 10 The U.S. As Mediator: Is Peace Possible? CONCLUSION APPENDIX 1 United Nations Resolutions 242 and 338 APPENDIX 2 The Oslo Peace Accords: Declaration of Principles, 1993 BIBLIOGRAPHY

About the Author

Dennis J. Deeb II is an adjunct professor of history and government at Bunker Hill Community College in Charlestown, Massachusetts and a political science instructor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell in Lowell, Massachusetts. Deeb has appeared in Who's Who in America in 2011, 2012, and 2013. Deeb's extensive educational background includes a Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice and political science from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, a Master's degree in political science from Suffolk University, a Master's degree in education curriculum and instruction from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and a Master's degree in history from Salem State University.