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

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

I knew nothing about the Palestinian struggle, the Zionist movement, and the role of the US in the conflict. This book is a good start, and I learned a lot. It's quite dense and reads similarly to a textbook. I found that listening to it in an audio book format worked better for me, because I typically find it hard to digest nonfiction books.

While the book is most definitely informative, his intimate involvement in the conflict brings a color to the text that I think is so compelling to readers, especially those who are learning about it for the first time. His opening dedication is a prime example:

I dedicate this book to my grandchildren, Tariq, Idris, and Nur, all born in the twenty-first century, who will hopefully see the end of this hundred years' war

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Colonisation, and Genocide

Moderate: Racism and Islamophobia

Minor: Religious bigotry