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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
dark
emotional
informative
sad
slow-paced
5.0
I do not know how I got myself to finish this book
It brought back so many heartwrenching and devastating memories
As a Lebanese, I cannot say that I lived through what the Palestinians have lived and still are going through, but I can say that we got a long taste. Over 20 years of occupation where we saw the ugly side of a state that claimed to be "the only democratic country in the Middle East"
When I reached chapter four, I was hysterically crying remembering my mother telling us how, in 1982, she and her cousins had to carry their months old babies on foot to leave Beirut to the Syrian Borders and back to Sidon. How the Israeli barricades forbade them from taking any food and water. And how when they learned later what the occupiers did to the people in Sabra and Shatilla, they went into a state of shock that left them unable to speak for weeks.
I opened my eyes to this world living in an occupied South of Lebanon. We grew up on the sounds of the MK hovering daily. We saw weekly the IOF military planes practicing on our hills and villages.
In 1996, during their Grapes of Wrath, I saw my neighbor burned alive after a bomb fell on their building. In 2006, we witnessed the world dismissing our 3000 martyrs under the slogan "Israel has the right to defend themselves"
What Rashid Khalidi wrote in this book was not something new to me. We were taught and saw with our own eyes most of what happened.
However, what really was interesting personally were chapters 1 and 2 because they tell of a time before 1948, a time when there was and still is Palestine and Palestinians, proof that they are the indigenous people of the land.
What I want to say here is some reviews have treated this book as a memoir or a diary of a Palestinian telling stories. This is not that. This is a thesis.
And for those who do not know the difference between a thesis and a book, it is simply the difference between a fictional movie and a documentary.
A thesis must present documents resources and accepted statements from validated archives or sources.
Every sentence you write, every proclamation you make, every theory you raise, and every quote you use must be supported by evidence recorded in the reference pages at the end.
And RK brought all of his receipts.
The chapters of the book follow the timeline that leads to the current situation of the rise of the state of Israel and the conspiracy behind denying the Palestinians their own.
I hope you read this book and know the truth
It brought back so many heartwrenching and devastating memories
As a Lebanese, I cannot say that I lived through what the Palestinians have lived and still are going through, but I can say that we got a long taste. Over 20 years of occupation where we saw the ugly side of a state that claimed to be "the only democratic country in the Middle East"
When I reached chapter four, I was hysterically crying remembering my mother telling us how, in 1982, she and her cousins had to carry their months old babies on foot to leave Beirut to the Syrian Borders and back to Sidon. How the Israeli barricades forbade them from taking any food and water. And how when they learned later what the occupiers did to the people in Sabra and Shatilla, they went into a state of shock that left them unable to speak for weeks.
I opened my eyes to this world living in an occupied South of Lebanon. We grew up on the sounds of the MK hovering daily. We saw weekly the IOF military planes practicing on our hills and villages.
In 1996, during their Grapes of Wrath, I saw my neighbor burned alive after a bomb fell on their building. In 2006, we witnessed the world dismissing our 3000 martyrs under the slogan "Israel has the right to defend themselves"
What Rashid Khalidi wrote in this book was not something new to me. We were taught and saw with our own eyes most of what happened.
However, what really was interesting personally were chapters 1 and 2 because they tell of a time before 1948, a time when there was and still is Palestine and Palestinians, proof that they are the indigenous people of the land.
What I want to say here is some reviews have treated this book as a memoir or a diary of a Palestinian telling stories. This is not that. This is a thesis.
And for those who do not know the difference between a thesis and a book, it is simply the difference between a fictional movie and a documentary.
A thesis must present documents resources and accepted statements from validated archives or sources.
Every sentence you write, every proclamation you make, every theory you raise, and every quote you use must be supported by evidence recorded in the reference pages at the end.
And RK brought all of his receipts.
The chapters of the book follow the timeline that leads to the current situation of the rise of the state of Israel and the conspiracy behind denying the Palestinians their own.
I hope you read this book and know the truth