A review by onegalonelife27
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.25

 I admit that I only started learning about the Palestine and Israel’s history due to the genocide going on. This book-though a bit dense to read-does illustrate how long Palestine has tried to free itself from Israel’s grasp. 

Seems like Zionism and Israhell was Britain's pet project to get Jews out their land, then after WWII the US adopted it and has been doting upon Israel ever since, omitting or softening the news so that Israel is the focus and the victim. 

Towards the end, there's the usual list of notes nonfiction has that expands on subjects-I think they are called footnotes but it's been forever since I took an English class so correct me if I'm wrong-discussed. I found a lot of interesting links, articles, books listed to be able to learn more about Palestinian history. There's always more to learn. 

I have one real complaint that if you only define an acronym once, and then use that acronym hundreds of times, it’s easy to forget what it stands for. After a while I forgot that PLO meant Palestine Liberation Organization, but context helped me follow along. I just started calling it “a force for Palestine” in my mind. 

I hope that one day, this ongoing genocide will be a thing of the past, something for future generation will learn from because it will be last and Palestine will be free soon. 

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