Introduction : Oslo - a delusional "peace" process -- 1. The modern era : new anti-Jewish indictments and their toll -- 2. Decimation and survival : the ancient and medieval diaspora -- 3. Outside looking in : Europe's Jews in the late 1700s to 1880 -- 4. Besiegement east and west, 1880-1914 -- 5. The war between the wars -- 6. American Jews and the Holocaust : catastrophe and failure -- 7. Responding to acceptance : American Jewry after the war -- 8. Herzl and his challengers -- 9. The mandate years : Jewish delusions transplanted -- 10. The labor decades : new nation, old pathology -- 11. Demonizing the "other Israel," 1977-1988 -- 12. Delusions ascendant : the peace movement up to Oslo -- 13. Oslo : rationalizing the irrational -- 14. Oslo underway : encountering, and ignoring, reality -- 15. The Netanyahu interlude : a bump on the road to self-immolation -- 16. Ehud Barak and Oslo's collapse : end of a fantasy -- 17. American Jews and Oslo
18. A war of terror and Israel's awakening
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