This title offers a chronicle of recent Israeli-Palestinian politics, with more than one hundred pages of little-known documents including correspondence between Jerusalem and Washington, by a former Israeli Ambassador. For more than fifty years now, Ariel Sharon has been a significant player on the stage of Israeli politics. The former general, a hero of the Six Day and October Wars, is a man who pulled off spectacular military victories, but who also suffered humiliating failures such as the Lebanon adventure. Ariel Sharon is a man of legend, a figure of high controversy, a man now lying at the edge of death but whose strength as Prime Minister of the Jewish state placed him at the crossroads of his peoples destiny.