num_pages: 336
description: 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.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.Cover photograph Amnon Bar OrTal Gazit Architects LTD
language: English
title: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
publisher: Metropolitan Books