Along with the gnarled olive trees and squat cactuses that put a surprising range of greens into the landscape, the hills of historic Palestine have long produced a steady crop of tenacious myths. Most of the ones familiar in the U.S. take an Israeli point of view, from the early Zionist claim that Palestine was a "land without a people for a people without a land" to the state's current insistence that peace negotiations collapsed a year and a half ago because "Palestinians preferred violence" to Ehud Barak's "most... More >>>