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

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.