The iron cage: the story of the Palestinian struggle for statehood [1st ed] 9780807003152, 0807003158

The story of the Palestinian search to establish a state begins in the era of British control over Palestine and stretch

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The iron cage: the story of the Palestinian struggle for statehood [1st ed]
9780807003152, 0807003158

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Munaẓẓamat al-Taḥrīr al-Filasṭīnīyah.;Munaẓẓamat at-Taḥrīr al-Filasṭīnīya;Al Fatah.;Fatah;PLO.;Khalidi
Rashid

Table of contents :
Introduction: Writing Middle Eastern history in a time of historical amnesia --
1. Arab society in Mandatory Palestine --
2. The Palestinians and the British mandate --
3. A failure of leadership --
4. The revolt, 1948 and afterward --
5. Fateh, the PLO, and the PA: the Palestinian para-state --
6. Stateless in Palestine --
Notes --
Acknowledgments --
Index.

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