Index: Concepts, Q

• Qilw — The barilla-ash alkaline soda that was Nablus soap’s second raw material, gathered by east-bank bedouins and carried to Nablus in caravans, in Doumani’s Chapter 5.
• Qualitative military edge — The US commitment to maintaining Israel’s regional military superiority, reaffirmed even under pressure in 1991 and the frame for Razek’s rejection of normalization agreements.
• Quality of life — Dinero’s perceptual measure, following Cutter, for evaluating the Segev Shalom resettlement: whether life is better in town than in the pezurah, for individuals and for the community.