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A review by marvelruinedmyspirit
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
4.0
"While the fundamentally colonial nature of the Palestinian-Israel encounter must be acknowledged, there are now two peoples in Palestine [...]. Their mutual acceptance can only be based on complete equality of rights, including national rights [...]. There is no other possible sustainable solution, barring the unthinkable notion of one people’s extermination or expulsion by the other." Sadly Israel seems to have taken the conclusion to this book at its word.
This was a really hard look into the history of the colonisation of Palestine, and how little autonomy and self-determination the Palestinians were given by Israel and its allies (including my own country, a fact which was conveniently not taught in school when I attended it).
I will say, I wish that the author had made a clear choice between making this a part-memoir and making it only a history book; he inserted some facts about his family's history, which were interesting, but seemed out of place as it was only in passing.
This was a really hard look into the history of the colonisation of Palestine, and how little autonomy and self-determination the Palestinians were given by Israel and its allies (including my own country, a fact which was conveniently not taught in school when I attended it).
I will say, I wish that the author had made a clear choice between making this a part-memoir and making it only a history book; he inserted some facts about his family's history, which were interesting, but seemed out of place as it was only in passing.