Contents: Preface; Palestinians and Middle East Peace: Issues for the United States; Israeli-United States Relations; Israel: US Foreign Assistance; Middle East Peace: The Refugee Issue; Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Recent Development , Sources of Support and Implications for US Policy; The Current Palestinian Uprising: Al-Aqsa Intifadah; The Middle East Peace Talks; Persian Gulf: Political Reform and US Policy; Religious Discrimination in the Middle East; Jerusalem in the Twentieth Century: Transformation and Strife; Index.