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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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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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)2023 Profile Books Ltd
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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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Important history and context!

This audiobook is well presented, well researched and deeply impactful. If you want to understand the "instability in the middle east" then this book will provide you with the history you need and the context for what is happening now.

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  • 23-11-2023

I understood that I knew very little about history of this conflict

A lot of facts and events from history collected in smooth interesting story.
Opens your eyes on causes of the conflict, its development and current state. Easy to listen - thanks for great narration.

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  • 26-11-2023

A perspective I’d probably not considered fully but glad I did

Read - or listen to (this book is narrated with balance and poise) - anything on this subject and there will be a review which will say something about bias. If ever there was a subject that this might be more than likely, it is this one. Because there probably is no middle ground. Is there a commentator whose position and perspective in life has not been affected by the ‘Great Powers’, either positively or negatively, in some way?
Mine definitely has, and so I felt a bias in the story. But I’m so glad I carried on because having read much on this subject - and with the recent 2023 eruption of violence firmly in my mind - I needed to refresh on the history and source and get a perspective I don’t think I’ve been given. That I was uncomfortable at time was almost comforting, and that I might wish to blame everything on the various ‘biggest bullies in the playground’ (there are bullies and there are bigger bullies - this is human nature reduced to his basic parts perhaps) 100 years ago, or 70, or 50, or even on the more recent tactics (but not strategies) of a game show, I think I agreed pretty much with most of not all of the conclusion; which in the very least did what a conclusion should do, bringing forward points from various perspectives and making a (for me a humanistic) proposal. This book in the very least will bring you up to 2017, allow you to ‘predict’ the current zero-sum, zero-gain conflict, and despair at all humans, the key protagonists and their self-destructive long game. Two perspectives, (which might have become doctrine, ideology or a faith or a combination thereof) one very ancient, one ancient, and very much human [and from my world, Shakespearian] tragedy. For what it’s worth, and whoever you are - and whether you want to add to your historical or geo-political knowledge - read it and weep (for all of our fellow humans inextricably linked to their fate). Stuart - a humanist, atheist born of an ex-great power/colonising fractured state in a state.

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