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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance

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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

By: Rashid I. Khalidi
Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi, Rashid I. Khalidi
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Shortlisted for the 2020 Cundill History Prize

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 siege. The result is a profoundly moving account of a hundred-year-long war of occupation, dispossession and colonialisation.

©2020 Rashid I. Khalidi (P)2010 BBC Audiobooks Ltd. Israel & Palestine Middle East Politics & Government World War Imperialism Iran Thought-Provoking Africa Royalty Ottoman Empire Military Middle Ages
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'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
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I chose this book because I was previously ignorant of the whole story and wanted to learn what I feel now is a more balanced view of the history than that generally spoken about. If the whole world read this book I believe the struggle for peace between Israel and Palestine would become a reality.

Eye opening content.

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This is a sad historical account of the injustice that Palestinians have endured and told in a “matter of fact” way.

Rational and efficient overview of how powerfull colonialism can be

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This is a no nonsense, factual book, seemingly devoid of nostalgia and ideology. For anyone who wants a truthful perspective on the 100 years of torture inflicted, by the collective west, on these poor people this is the book.

Facts are important

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Exceptionally well written, researched amd read. An important listen for anyone with interest in modern politics, settler colonialism and the Middle East.

Shockingly relevant

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This book is a powerful and detailed account of the terrible price the people of palestine have paid over the past 70+ years and continue to pay for the israeli state, really highlighting the power of palestinian diplomacy and the bad actors in the israeli government over the decades

one of the most tragic stories of the modern age

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