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The story revolves around the protagonist, Abu Al-Abd, who is a Palestinian refugee living in a refugee camp. As was the case with most refugees, Abu Al-Abd is unable to secure a job. Him and the other residents of the camp wait every month for donations from international associations.
The book has been described as providing a vital perspective on Palestinian attempts to achieve independence and statehood. [1]In a review of Khalidi's The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood, for Middle East Policy, Philip Wilcox praised the book calling it "Khalidi's brilliant inquiry into why Palestinians have failed to win a state of their own."
The aftermath of the PLO's withdrawal also led to several tragic events, including the infamous Sabra and Shatila massacre in September 1982, where Christian Phalangist militias, allied with Israel, killed hundreds of Palestinian refugees in camps in West Beirut, while Israeli forces were accused of complicity by allowing the militias to enter ...
The Palestinian right of return [a] is the political position or principle that Palestinian refugees, both first-generation refugees (c. 30,000 to 50,000 people still alive as of 2012) [3] [4] and their descendants (c. 5 million people as of 2012), [3] have a right to return and a right to the property they themselves or their forebears left ...
Refugees - Today about 5.6 million Palestinian refugees - mainly descendants of those who fled in 1948 - live in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza.
Together with Naji al-Ali's "Handala" (the barefoot child always drawn from behind), and the symbolic key for the house in Palestine carried by so many Palestinian refugees, the "collective memory of that experience [the Nakba] has shaped the identity of the Palestinian refugees as a people". [111]
The modern state of Israel was founded in May 1948 in the aftermath of the Holocaust and Second World War but the conflict that has raged between Israelis and Palestinians since can be traced back ...
It then follows both of them as their friendship develops despite being on opposites sides of the conflict, and provides historical context and analysis of world events. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] When Dalia's parents die, she turns the house into a center for Arab-Jewish dialogue, as well as a day care center for Arab children at Bashir's request.