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

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

Thoroughly researched, fair, and nuanced history of modern Palestine. The inclusion of Khalidi's family history was really engaging. The book is critical of all parties, when warranted -- the US and Israel obviously, but also the PLO and other Palestinian leadership, other Arab countries, and Palestinians themselves -- so it felt like a really fair assessment. The book was published a couple years ago but it's chilling how accurately he predicted the events going on today. I feel like this book gave me a great foundational understanding. Took me a while to get through because I was annotating and absorbing so much but it's worth it.

If you are new to this history the book is accessible but dense, and sometimes makes assumptions about your prior knowledge. I did find myself occasionally using Wikipedia to get the basic understanding of certain events (like the six day war) before reading Khalidi's interpretation. 
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