القفص الحديدي (The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood) by Rashid Khalidi

A leading expert on the Middle East and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict brings vital perspective to Palestinian attempts to achieve independence and statehood. Admirably synthesizing the latest scholarship and concentrating on the period of the British Mandate (1920-1948), historian Khalidi describes the process by which a newly arrived European Jewish minority overcame, with help from its imperial ally, the claims and rights of the native Arab majority in what became Israel and the occupied territories. Year: 2007