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    The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
    The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
    The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
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    The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017

    Written by Rashid Khalidi

    Narrated by Rashid Khalidi and Fajer Al-Kaisi

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    This program includes an introduction read by the author.

    A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history.

    In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils ahead, ending his note, “in the name of God, let Palestine be left alone.” Thus Rashid Khalidi, al-Khalidi’s great-great-nephew, begins this sweeping history, the first general account of the conflict told from an explicitly Palestinian perspective.

    Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members—mayors, judges, scholars, diplomats, and journalists—The Hundred Years' War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations of the conflict, which tend, at best, to describe a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same territory. Instead, Khalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel, but backed by Britain and the United States, the great powers of the age. He highlights the key episodes in this colonial campaign, from the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the destruction of Palestine in 1948, from Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon to the endless and futile peace process.

    Original, authoritative, and important, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine is not a chronicle of victimization, nor does it whitewash the mistakes of Palestinian leaders or deny the emergence of national movements on both sides. In reevaluating the forces arrayed against the Palestinians, it offers an illuminating new view of a conflict that continues to this day.

    Cover photograph © Amnon Bar Or—Tal Gazit Architects LTD

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateJan 28, 2020
    ISBN9781250227850
    Author

    Rashid Khalidi

    Rashid Khalidi is the author of Palestinian Identity, Brokers of Deceit, and The Iron Cage, among others. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and many other journals. He is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University in New York and editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies.

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    • 5/5
      A must read, how does the US still support this War
    • 5/5
      Amazing read, showing the Zionist colonial and apartheid project in Palestine with a great political analysis a
    • 5/5
      What an important work in this time of upheaval. Everyone should hear the Palestinian story from Palestinian voices. So informative, heartfelt, and honest. A must read!
    • 5/5
      This is a wonderful starting point if you’re trying to understand the history of the Palestinian struggle.
    • 5/5
      A very important and necessary read, especially in the global context we are living in as I write this review. Excellent book, easy to follow and understand. Read it asap, don’t hesitate.
    • 5/5
      When you parallel the Palestinian existence with that of Native Americans, the people of Sudan and the Congo, and any other colonized and oppressed people in history, it is not difficult to acknowledge and admire their plight and refusal to fade into nothingness. It is nearly impossible not for me, as a Black person in America, not to align with their cause and support their right to exist in their land.

      Rashid Khalidi really takes your hand and leads you through the history of Palestine, and it makes so much sense that it leads into today's currents events almost seamlessly and prophetically, because the longer the world ignores the harm colonialism has caused, the more we will see instances of history repeat itself in newer, harsher ways—which is exactly what is happening right now. Khalidi also highlights and supports the Israelis who have come to know Palestine as their own home through the lens of the harsh truth that it is their home in the same way America is the home of the descendants of the violent European settlers who shed blood on American soil for hundreds of years to elevate their own interests and suit their own belonging.

      Palestine's issue remains that it cannot garner support or adequate military defenses because their decision to be passive in the past and try to push for peace has resulted in an intentional, fervent misunderstanding of their cause.

      I cannot help but remain committed to the cause of dismantling white supremacy and the ways it protects, uplifts, and feeds colonialism, and hope I live to see the day where Palestine is safe, alive, and free, from the river to the sea.

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    • 5/5
      Amazing revealing enlightening analysis of a history of a people cruelly oppressed for over 100 years. Free Palestine!! End the occupation!! Equal rights for all!!

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    • 5/5
      This is a great insight on the current war. Thank God I finished it before it might be removed

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    • 5/5
      In depth explanation from Palestinians pov; great listening experience, highly recommended to anyone who wants to know more about the history of the most conflicted areas in the world

      4 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      The strength of this book comes from the original archives it is based on. The author makes dense material easy to understand through his story-like narration of events.

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    • 3/5
      The book is an unbalanced polemic, I went in with an open mind and although it helped contextualize the Palestinian perspective, it's bias and one-sidedness meant that it never took the Israeli situation seriously, just labeled them as colonialists and moved on.

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    • 1/5
      Rashid Khalidi starts his book by vaguely attacking other books on Israel and Palestine for their one sided narrative that favors Israel, without providing much detail on their historiographic failings. He points out that there is a need to provide a Palestinian narrative using extensive primary sources, which is true. He does not do that however, and instead resorts to primarily relying upon personal and family stories. When he uses historic sources, he proceeds to leave out rebellions, massacres, entire wars and whole sections of essential biographies, that would be easily criticized as callous mistakes, if it was not clear that he carefully left them out to fit his narrative. He left out the Arab revolt of 1929, when Jews were raped and massacred, and the second holiest city in Judaism, Hebron, was ethnically cleansed of Jews. He left out the entire Nazi past of Grand Mufti Amin Al-Husseini. He only mentioned the Yom Kippur War once. Why? Because each of those facts disprove key points in his narrative.

      On the the note of the Grand Mufti, the only time Khaldi mentioned Nazi Germany, was to note the damage his “presence” there did to the Palestinian cause. Thus he seemed to care more about image of the cause than the deaths of Jews. He repeats this disregard when talking about how suicide bombers killed innocent Israelis and he talks about how it was foolish, because it looked bad in the media. This highlights another problem with this book. For a book that is oozing with emotion, personal stories and cries for sympathy, he shows almost no empathy to Jews killed in the long conflict or at any other time or place.

      He made strong points about Israel’s botched invasion of Lebanon and the failures of the Oslo Accords. Yet by the time I came to that part of the book, I was suspicious of everything he said. I can’t imagine the effect that the trauma of the siege of Beirut of 1982 and the Nakba had on him and his family. However, does not give him the right to produce a false historical narrative void of any empathy towards Jews. Regardless to your feeling on this deeply emotional conflict, this book offers an extremely narrow and one sided narrative, that takes shocking liberties with historic data.

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