The persistence of the Palestinian question : essays on Zionism and the Palestinians / Joseph Massad.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: the opposite of terror -- The "Post-colonial" colony: time, space, and bodies in Palestine/Israel -- Conceiving the masculine: gender and Palestinian nationalism -- Zionism`s internal others: Israel and the Mizrahim -- Palestinians and the limits of racialized discourse -- Repentant terrorists or settler-colonialism revisited: the PLO-Israeli agreement in perspective -- Political realists or comprador intelligentsia: Palestinian intellectuals and the national struggle -- Return or permanent exile? Palestinian refugees and the ends of Oslo -- Palestinians and Jewish history: recognition or submission? -- The ends of Zionism: racism and the Palestinian struggle -- History on the line: Joseph Massad and Benny Morris discuss the Middle East -- The persistence of the Palestinian question.