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Epilogue The Epilogue is drafted, and when I have time I will edit and post it piece by piece. (I expected to have it done by now, but the last stages of publishing, and now marketing, are a lot more labor-intensive than I realized.) Keep checking back here, or sign up for my blog, where I will notify readers when new sections of the Epilogue are published. The Epilogue will cover my time working at a Defense Department think tank in the belly of the Bush Beltway, the aftermath of the 2006 Hamas elections, my experience with the institutional culture and internal logic of Washington, Israel’s assault on Lebanon in the summer of 2006, Hamas’s takeover of the Gaza Strip in 2007, my next trips to Palestine, and my decision in December 2007 to write this book. The lessons I learned in Washington -- about human psychology, institutional inertia, and how frighteningly little most so-called 'experts' know about the Middle East -- are some of the most important and actionable things I've ever learned. I look forward to passing them on to you.