CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vi
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS viii
4. Introduction 1
5. chapter one Jordan’s Changing Role and the Evolution of the Two-State Solution Concept 10
6. chapter two First Ambassador to Israel 33
7. chapter three The Last Six Months of King Hussein’s Life 72
8. chapter four The Arab Initiative 102
9. chapter five The Middle East Road Map 134
10. chapter six Launching the Road Map and the Aqaba Summit 176
11. chapter seven Bush’s Letters to Prime Minister Sharon and King Abdullah II 199
12. chapter eight The Israeli Separation Wall an end to the two-state solution? 217
13. chapter nine Arab Reform 230
14. chapter ten Is There Hope for the Arab Center? 259
15. Appendix 1. King Hussein’s Letter to Prime Minister Rabin Regarding the Jerusalem Land Expropriation Issue 271
16. Appendix 2. Note Verbale to the Israeli Foreign Ministry on Absentee Property 274
17. Appendix 3. The Clinton Parameters 276
18. Appendix 4. The Arab Peace Initiative Adopted at the Beirut Arab Summit, March 2002 281
19. Appendix 5. A Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 283
20. Notes 291
21. Index 299