Rashid Khalidis `The Iron Cage`

p Rashid Khalid 's The Iron Cage

An Analytical Discussion

The Iron Cage is an effort to reconcile the causes of failure of the Palestinians to establish their independent state . At the heart of the book lie the internal and external culprits why the Palestinian society immediately crumbled in 1948 , why the nominal effort to resist the course of dispossession , and why the people fled , living their homes behind (Khalid The history of struggle of the Palestinians to establish their own state begins right after the fall of the Ottoman Empire

, the era of British Control , with Arab states on a cusp receiving support from the colonial powers , assuring them of their future independence . However the British had already begun building an iron cage , restricting the Palestinians . Their leaders ' errors and wrong decisions , as well as the lack of strong institutions , ultimately contribute to the critical failure that dictates the path towards an independent state for decades . At the peripheral , the Palestinian struggles intensified by the unpopular colonial control of the region , the non-stop pour of Jewish migrants from Eastern Europe , the romanticism and cynicism of Arab leaders , and the devolution of power to the United States who favored the interests of the Jews over those of the Arabs . Jews did not begin the fighting but in 1948 , 75 ,000 Palestinians were expelled from areas that became part of the new state of Israel The book offers an alternative view of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict from what the mainstream media brings to...