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julesadventurezone's review
4.0
Graphic: Colonisation, Gun violence, Death, War, Violence, and Xenophobia
Moderate: Suicide
Minor: Pregnancy
bookish_afrolatina's review
5.0
Khalidi’s conclusion is powerful and offers ways to move towards peace.
Graphic: Violence, War, Religious bigotry, Racism, Genocide, Colonisation, and Murder
craigpwmoroney's review against another edition
5.0
This is a must read for anyone who wants to know about the history of the Palestine.
Graphic: Colonisation, Forced institutionalization, Religious bigotry, Islamophobia, Hate crime, Genocide, Gaslighting, and Dysphoria
drbealstod's review
4.25
Moderate: War, Deportation, Colonisation, Death, Violence, and Xenophobia
skitch41's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: War and Colonisation
stargazerave's review
4.5
Khalidi does an exquisite job of not only elaborating and revealing the true extent of the sufferings of the Palestinian people but also acknowledging their failings and the ways they have partially contributed to their own continued colonization. The novel does not try to convince you of Palestine's innocence, nor try to demonize Israel, but instead details (from first-hand familial accounts from the author) the entire span of the conflict from the first beginnings of the Zionist movement up to the ongoing war as recent as 2014 in relative honesty. There is an inherent level of bias, as the author is Palestinian, though this doesn't stop him whatsoever from pointing out specific actions and figures in Palestinian government and negotiations and criticizing them not in a way designed to garner pity, but in a way where it feels as though he's saying, "Yeah, this is where they should've done this differently."
The best way I can summarize this novel is by quoting a portion of the rear cover of the book.
Neither a chronicle of victimization nor a whitewash of mistakes made by Palestinian leaders, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine offers both a compelling family history and an original, illuminating view of the Middle East's most intractable conflict.
All this to be said of its excellence, there is a reason it falls just short of 5 stars for me. I found myself incredibly drawn in by the beginning of this book, in fact I found it hard to stop reading it. This feeling started to dwindle however as I got to the middle/end of its pages, and the more recent descriptions of the conflict in recent years, I found my attention slipping from the subject matter more and more. There's an element of impersonality that grew for me over the course of the chapters, leaving me feeling more and more disconnected as I read more and more.
Graphic: Genocide, Colonisation, and War
mari1532's review against another edition
5.0
Brief Summary: A personal family story and a historical retrospective of the colonial establishment of Israel and its impact on Palestine.
Thoughts: This is a beautifully moving and important book to read. I learned a great deal about Palestine's history. Khalidi's writing is informative and emotional.
I would highly recommend it.
#FreePalestine
Graphic: Murder, Violence, Genocide, Colonisation, Death, Grief, and War
dominicangirl's review against another edition
Graphic: Violence, Colonisation, Racism, and Xenophobia
bellaw15's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Colonisation, Religious bigotry, and Xenophobia
Moderate: Child death, Violence, Death, Genocide, and Police brutality
Minor: Racism, Antisemitism, and Islamophobia
tashtasher's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Police brutality, Genocide, Gun violence, Islamophobia, Murder, War, Colonisation, Death, Grief, Racism, Religious bigotry, and Violence