The Hundred Years' War on Palestine The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

The International Bestseller

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THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

'Riveting and original ... a work enriched by solid scholarship, vivid personal experience, and acute appreciation of the concerns and aspirations of the contending parties in this deeply unequal conflict ' Noam Chomsky

The twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians has been a century of denial: denial of statehood, denial of nationhood and denial of history. The Hundred Years War on Palestine is Rashid Khalidi's powerful response. Drawing on his family archives, he reclaims the fundamental right of any people: to narrate their history on their own terms.

Beginning in the final days of the Ottoman Empire, Khalidi reveals nascent Palestinian nationalism and the broad recognition by the early Zionists of the colonial nature of their project. These ideas and their echoes defend Nakba - the Palestinian term for the establishment of the state of Israel - the cession of the West Bank and Gaza to Jordan and Egypt, the Six Day War and the occupation. Moving through these critical moments, Khalidi interweaves the voices of journalists, poets and resistance leaders with his own accounts as a child of a UN official and a resident of Beirut during the 1982 seige. The result is a profoundly moving account of a hundred-year-long war of occupation, dispossession and colonisation.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2020
6 February
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
507
Pages
PUBLISHER
Profile
SIZE
3.5
MB

Customer Reviews

ColourWeaver ,

A history I knew, but did not really know

Rashid Khalidi’s book is an eye opener on a history of Palestine I thought I knew all about from BBC News. I knew the places, but I did not know the people, or where they lived. I knew the politicians and their policies, but did not know the background. This book was difficult to put down. Very clearly written and I “enjoyed” reading it. As an Englishman I am sorry for my ancestors did to the Palestinian people over the last 100 years.

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