Palestina

by Rashid Khalidi, Francisco Ramos

Paperback, 400 pages

Spanish language

Published by Capitán Swing.

ISBN:: 978-84-126199-0-4

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.

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

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.

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Ben Waber reviewed The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

A Great but Flawed History

4 stars

Khalid combines a macro and first person view of the decades of Palestinian interactions with Zionism, starting with the Balfour Declaration and continuing to 2017. This is obviously a biased perspective since Khalid was deeply involved with the PLO, and this comes out mostly from omission of PLO attacks against civilians and the occurrence and implications of the Yom Kippur War, but also when flaming a few diplomats (the disdain for Madeleine Albright was bizarre). This book shines most when zooming away from Khalidi's personal experiences and working through the chain of immense injustices and international players arrayed against Palestinian interests, why these conditions have continued or intensified, and the need for solutions that treat Israelis and Palestinians as equals. Highly recommend

Mary reviewed The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

Important Read

5 stars

I've just started delving into Palestinian literature and struggle to remember names, so it was a bit difficult for me to comprehend at times. Still, this book is a great overview of the conflict in Israel and Palestine that's been going on for many, many years. The ongoing mistreatment of Palestinians makes it a frustrating read but also a very necessary one.

The Weaver Reads reviewed The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

Goodreads Review of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

4 stars

This is a great overview of the major political and military events between Palestine and its occupier between 1917 and 2017. It is, by no means, comprehensive. Khalidi breaks the book down into six "declarations" of war by Israel against the Palestinian people, and offers insight that way. As a result, the book is--by no means--comprehensive, but it's a good introduction.

It's slow going for the first two chapters, but chapters 3-5 are excellent: we see the narrative partially through Khalidi's eyes, and that's the part of the text where we can also see some of Palestine's cultural history, as well. But, there's little here about everyday life, social aspects, etc. in Palestine: it's entirely Palestine/Israel relations.

ruimaio reviewed The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

None

5 stars

Qualquer crítica seria insuficiente para relevar a extrema importância deste livro.

Este livro mostra, de forma objectiva e fundamentada, os acontecimentos desde a génese do sionismo até ao ano de 2017, passando por todos os horrores que têm sido cometidos.

Mostra, sem sombra de dúvida, erros por parte dos líderes palestinianos e que tiveram consequências muito negativas para o povo palestiniano. Nada disso é omitido.

Por outro lado, há também outros aspectos explicados em detalhe: a forma brutal e ilegal como Israel tem ocupado a Palestina, a forma como Israel tem cometido inúmeros crimes contra um povo praticamente indefeso, a forma ininterrupta como os EUA têm fornecido apoio a Israel, até por tomarem o papel de mediador nas negociações de paz (LOL), a forma como o Ocidente tem ignorado e desvalorizado o que tem acontecido na Palestina.

Estou a escrever isto numa altura em que se tem dado um dos piores ataques por parte de Israel, um autêntico genocídio, nem mais nem menos. Sinceramente, fico espantado com a forma como os palestinianos têm resistido durante mais de um século.

O autor é de uma inteligência suprema ao analisar como toda esta questão pode ser encarada daqui para a frente, e um desses aspectos é acabar com a treta de chamar antissemitismo a iniciativas de proteção da Palestina e do seu povo. Isso é a maior estupidez que já ouvi.

Há mesmo muito a tirar deste livro, montes de lições. É um livro triste de ler, que gera muita revolta (se quem o ler não for um idiota que apoia genocídios e ocupações). Mas aconselho mesmo a que o façam. Vou guardar o livro e empresto sem hesitações. Ou comprem ou leiam de outra forma qualquer. Mas leiam, tirem as vossas conclusões e transmitam a mensagem, e ajam de acordo com ela.

oatmilk_alex reviewed The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

Review of "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine" on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

Such an important book to read

HyruleJose reviewed The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

Review of "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine" on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Credit to Sim Kern for putting this on my radar. Like many others, I'd never really been taught an accurate version of this history. I'm glad a book like this exists to teach it. I'm sure each era could be a book onto itself, but as far as getting a general overview this works wonderfully.

Ajbarbieri reviewed The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

A remarkable book

5 stars

I stopped reading these after Hamas atrocities but just finished it quickly. A remarkable book bringing to light at least for me the flaws with the Oslo accord, parallels between today the 1982 war in Lebanon, etc...