Opinions about the Palestinians are as black and white as Yasser Arafat’s famous headscarf. Some see a persecuted minority, others a bunch of terrorists. During the past decade, Johannes Gerloff talked to sheikhs and Quran scholars, politicians and guerillas, secular and religious people in the Palestinian Territories and surrounding countries. In the final chapter, he draws the Bible into the debate and reaches some surprising conclusions. The German edition, Die Palästinenser. Volk im Brennpunkt der Geschichte, was published in September 2011 and reached its third print run. The Dutch translation was published in June 2013.