But, as always in the long Israeli-Palestinian struggle, the reality is much murkier.

One of the remarkable aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle is that after so many failed attempts at peace, new initiatives can still rouse hopes.

When I left Jerusalem in 1980, I believed that the Israeli-Palestinian struggle would be resolved within a few more years.

All four of them, and other injured "only with less serious damage" continue with the joint Israeli-Palestinian struggle against the separation fence and Israeli occupation.

The idea is to plan economic cooperation between Israel and Arab states in a Middle East where somehow the Israeli-Palestinian struggle has been settled peacefully.

But Egypt will not want the Israeli-Palestinian struggle to spill across the border and is expected by Israeli officials to move quickly to try to track down those responsible.

At some point," he wrote in one of the articles cited, the Israeli-Palestinian struggle "will stop being about its root causes and will just be about hatred.

And most certainly it creates the link between the Persian Gulf and the Israeli-Palestinian struggle that Washington had said it would not accept.

Yet she gives at least equal time to the press of official business, which means that much of the book deals with the Israeli-Palestinian struggle.

At 36, Ms. Khouri may be one of the United States' best hopes for a durable peace in the Israeli-Palestinian struggle.