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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

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403:—which did not resolve any fundamental Palestinian demands, such as national sovereignty, an end to occupation and colonization, the right of return for refugees, an agreement on Jerusalem, delineated borders, and land and water rights, and which were arranged based on close political, diplomatic, and military ties between Israel and the US, and were therefore tantamount to "another internationally sanctioned American-Israeli declaration of war on the Palestinians in furtherance of the Zionist movement's century-old project." 190:, father of modern political Zionism. In his response, Herzl ignores the main concerns raised by the Pasha and in reference to the non-Jewish population of Palestine, Herzl quips: "But who would think of sending them away?" The author sees this early exchange as revelatory that Zionism was an essentially colonial project from its inception, and that the Palestinians were never taken seriously and only rarely were their opinions consulted in matters that would determine their future. 268:, in which about 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled to neighboring Arab states. Land that had been owned and abandoned by fleeing and ousted Palestinians was expropriated by the Israeli government to be used solely for the benefit of the Jewish people, being added to extant Jewish settlements or coming under the control of the 158:—argues that the struggle in Palestine should be understood, not as one between two equal national movements fighting over the same land, but rather as "a colonial war waged against the indigenous population, by a variety of parties, to force them to relinquish their homeland to another people against their will." 29: 165:, stories passed down through his family from generation to generation, and his own experiences, as an activist in various circles and as someone who has been involved in negotiations among Palestinian groups and with Israelis. 226:, acting as an almost governmental administration over the following 26 years, was an officially recognized representative of the Jewish minority in Palestine, and there was no comparable institution for the Arab majority. 431:, and 2014. The author notes that the massive death toll and physical destruction of buildings and infrastructure were caused by lethal weapons supplied to Israel by the US, including 352:. The author regards it as a joint Israeli-American operation, as the US supplied Israel with weapons and supported the expulsion of the PLO's leadership and combatants from 1058: 747: 251: 305: 596: 1053: 239: 428: 1038: 835: 99: 255: 242:, which approved the establishment of a Jewish state on 56% of Arab majority land, thereby violating the Palestinians' right to "national 632: 337: 1048: 345: 219: 477: 476:
has described the book as "simply poor history". Morris has criticized the book for what he argues is an oversimplification of the
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Rubner, Michael (June 2020). "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017".
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as presenting "the most cogent, comprehensive, and compelling account yet of this struggle from the Palestinian vantage point."
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The sixth chapter covers four chapters of Israeli violence against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza: backlash against the
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that weren't published in the original 1983 report, of the Israeli government's conscious decision to send
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in 1947 as the imperial power, with its moves to gather international support to ensure the passage of
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The fourth chapter also points to US compliance in Israeli aggression, with its support for the 1982
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for 15 years with his family. It also presents damning evidence, based on documents leaked from the
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In addition to the more traditional sources and methods employed by a historian, Khalidi draws on
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
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517:Ḥarb al-miʼah ʻām ʻalaʹ Filisṭīn : qiṣat al-istiʻmār al-istīṭānī wa-al muqawimah 1917–2017 222:—neither document made reference to "Arabs" or "Palestinians" or to their national rights. The 123:
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Der Hundertjährige Krieg um Palästina: Eine Geschichte von Siedlerkolonialismus und Widerstand
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as a "colonialist enterprise" as opposed to a national movement itself.
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The book begins with an examination of correspondence from 1889 between
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and made no mention of Palestine or the Palestinians or their rights.
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The third chapter highlights the colonial role of the US in the
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The fifth chapter addresses the Israeli backlash against the
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Palestina: um século de guerra e resistência (1917 - 2017)
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This chapter is the most personal, as the author lived in
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and an instrument of British and then later American
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Rashid Khalidi
Palestine
Metropolitan Books
ISBN
978-1-627-79855-6
OCLC
1150009229
Rashid Khalidi
Zionist
Palestine
settler colonialism
imperialism
Palestinian people
Edward Said
Columbia University
family archives
Yusuf Diya ad-Din Pasha al-Khalidi
mayor of Jerusalem
Theodor Herzl
Balfour Declaration
British Empire
Mandate for Palestine
League of Nations
Mandatory Palestine
dissolution of the Ottoman Empire
Jewish Agency for Palestine
Britain
UN partition resolution
self-determination

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