Explains who the Palestinian people are and why they have been embroiled in bitter and violent conflict with their neightbors for nearly a hundred years.

A short history of Palestine and the Palestinians -- Before al-nakbah : Palestine in the nineteenth century -- The conflict takes shape -- Palestine and the British mandate -- Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation -- Palestinian resistance to dispossession -- The Arab revolt -- The beginning of the end -- The Palestinian Diaspora -- Palestine Authority chronology.