Table of Contents
 
 
Sections cut from the 2013 version are in red.
Starred entries were left out of
the Author's Cut as well.
 
  
 
Chapter 1: From the Midwest to the Middle East 
 
-  Border Prologue
 -  Degree of Freedom
 -  The Sinai
 -  Eye of the Storm
  
  
 
Chapter 2: Olives, Tea, and Assault Rifles 
 
-  Galilee
 -  Into the West Bank
 -  Jayyous
 -  The Wall
 -  Olive Rain
 -  Surrounded
 -  Rania's House
 -  Yusif's Islam
 -  Qais
 -  Ramadan
  
  
 
Chapter 3: Behind the Fence 
 
-  Nablus
 -  Dan in Israel
 -  Ramadan Daze
 -  Dan in Palestine
 -  Thunderstorm
 -  Helicopters and Hellfire
 -  Settlement
 -  The Eid
 -  The Last Picnic
 -  Home Again
  
  
 
Chapter 4: Ramallah — Palestine has its own Beer? 
 
-  Ben Gurion Airport
 -  Ramallah
 -  The Muqataa
 -  Office Life
 -  Sangria's
 -  Invasion Party
 -  Yasmine
 -  Ramallah International Film Festival
 -  Cops and Robbers
 -  Cold War and Peace
  
  
 
Chapter 5: Suddenly a Journalist 
 
-  Jayyous Nights
 -  Grapevines and Sea Breezes
 -  Amman Again
 -  Home Sweet Ramallah
 -  Dead Sea Stroll
 -  Arabian Idol
 -  Bethlehem's Walls
 -  Goons. Hired Goons.
 -  An Offer I Couldn't Refuse
  
  
 
Chapter 6: Bombings, Weddings, and a Kidnapping 
 
-  Suicide Bomb
 -  Checkpoint Wedding
 -  Disappeared
 -  Osama the Commie
 -  Shoot 'em Up
 -  Zeitoun
 -  Another Bombing
 -  Days of Penitence
  
  
 
Chapter 7: Arafat's Funeral 
 
 
Chapter 8: Running for President in a Nation without a Country 
 
 
Chapter 9: Holy Land Spring 
 
-  Gunpoint
 -  Winter Living
 -  Eid al Adha
 -  Ceasefire
 -  Suicide Bomber's Family Shunned
 -  Thuglife
 -  Nablus in April
 -  Passover
 -  Bab al Shams
    
 
Chapter 10: The Grand Tour 
 
 
Chapter 11: The Gaza Disengagement 
 
 
Chapter 12: The Last Ramadan 
 
-  Visa Laundering
 -  Islamic Jihad vs. Hamas vs. Fatah
 -  Gaza Holiday *
 -  Ahmed's Heart (Click to read article this section is based on) 
 -  Dinner with a Suicide Bomber's Family
 -  Settler Logic
 -  Leaving Ramallah
 -  Sinai Reflections
 
  
 
 
   
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