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The iron cage : the story of the Palestinian struggle for statehood /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Khalidi, Rashid
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Beacon Press, [2006]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Palestinian Arabs > Politics and government > 20th century.
National liberation movements > Palestine.
Arab-Israeli conflict.
Fatḥ (Organization)
Munaẓẓamat al-Taḥrīr al-Filasṭīnīyah.
Palestinian National Authority.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Publisher description
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.