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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

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dithorba's review against another edition

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challenging dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

Absolutely required reading on the formation and history of Israel and it's continued colonization and subjugation of Palestine. 

From river to sea, Palestine will be free. 🇵🇸

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michaelsbirthday's review against another edition

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challenging informative medium-paced

4.75

Rigorous and academic without feeling inaccessible to a lay reader, the book offers a vital Palestinian perspective on the colonisation of Palestine and the Palestinians. The book delves deeply into the global political architecture that has aided and abetted Israel’s violent suppression of the Palestinians, as well as other factors such as media bias and the failure of Palestinian resistance movements to realise the power that Western politics and media hold over their struggles. The author’s first person accounts complement the narrative and serve to bring the human cost of violence, colonisation and oppression into sharp focus. 

I have knocked off points from a five star rating as I found the book a little difficult to get into in the first few chapters. It may have helped if subsections of the discussion within the chapters were signposted/titled, as I sometimes felt the narrative jumped around a bit and I was left struggling to catch up with where we were. However, this might have been a me problem, and once I got used to the flow of the writing, it was much easier to comprehend. Truly a must-read for everyone.

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caidyn's review against another edition

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emotional informative medium-paced

4.25

An emotional read about the Israeli colonisation of Palestine. I loved how personal it was with the stories Khalidi had that his family were a part of. 

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bright_eyed_and_bookish's review against another edition

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challenging hopeful informative

4.5

As a person going into this book without much background knowledge on Palestine, I think this gave me a great general overview and room to ask further questions about each of the events and major players. The author also recounts his personal experience in the events that he lived through, and shows his connection to the story he is telling.

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