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4.51 AVERAGE
4.51 AVERAGE
dark
informative
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I’m ashamed to say I didn’t know much about the Palestine-Israel conflict before reading this, only bits from what I’ve seen online in the past few years.
This book is so eye-opening and illuminating, yet so incredibly sad and quite difficult to read. There is SO much to this conflict, and it spans over a century. While pausing for breaks during reading it, I couldn’t stop thinking about it and I kept wanting to go back to it. It sounds silly, but I kept hoping there would be a resolution at the end of the book? Cause on paper a resolution seems like an easy feat - the two state solution - but IRL it’s really not that simple. Especially if the powers-that-be keep inserting themselves
This book is so eye-opening and illuminating, yet so incredibly sad and quite difficult to read. There is SO much to this conflict, and it spans over a century. While pausing for breaks during reading it, I couldn’t stop thinking about it and I kept wanting to go back to it. It sounds silly, but I kept hoping there would be a resolution at the end of the book? Cause on paper a resolution seems like an easy feat - the two state solution - but IRL it’s really not that simple. Especially if the powers-that-be keep inserting themselves
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challenging
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I would give the book itself a higher rating but the translation into German could have been better.
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Although I felt some elements were left out, this book was surprisingly balanced, and offered a shrewd critique of Israel, the US, and flawed Palestinian leadership. I liked the authors analysis of the conflict as both a settler colonial one, but also a conflict between two emerging nations. This book was largely easy to read (it got easier as the book went on). Khalidi also offers his take on what a path forward would look like- ultimately he says this would need to involve negotiation where terms are not limited to what Israel would accept. They should involve Palestinian recognition of Israel, but also would involve Israel loosening its grip significantly on terms which have largely been a given for it- for example, it’s ongoing lack of commitment to any meaningful limit on new settlements in OPT.
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challenging
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emotional
hopeful
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reflective
sad
challenging
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informative
medium-paced