Rashid Khalidi's "One Hundred Years of Conflict in Palestine"

Amazon Customer: This book turns the current main stream media stories on their heads. An excellent balanced read of the situation. Absolutely heartbreaking to see how an entire people have been treated.

Canada on Jun 05, 2023

Iyas S.: Excellent work of an amazing scholar and author. I like how he would use personal experience in a balance description of what atrocities occurred to the Palestinians by the western colonial powers and Zionists.

United States on May 03, 2023

saad phonessaad phones: Best book from whom thos who want to learn about Palestine history,in this book you learn about how thos zionsm terrorist accused and slaughter thos Palestinian citizens and stole land and how those Zionist male a illigal state in this occupied land of Palestine.
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India on Jun 18, 2022

Mizmarzie: Prof. Rashid Khalidi has certainly produced a masterpiece ! A prolific writer and an authority on the plight of the Palestinians, Prof Khalidi has produced a book that is so comprehensive and thorough that one is left having to "un- learn" ( if one can say that ) what one assumed one knew or understood of the wars faced by Palestinians since just before the Balfour Declaration to- date. More than 100 years of war...with no reprieve ...just dispossession, continued humiliation, statelessness and peace talks and peace process...with no peace in sight.
This is a must read for anyone who values our common humanity, regardless of religion, nationality and ethnicity.
Prof Khalidi writes unbiasly,, with clarity and honesty and "dissects" the roles played by England, the US, EU, Israel, and the PLO who have all contributed to the failure to achieve peace and provide a sovereign independent state for all Palestinians. A brilliant book !!

United States on May 28, 2022

James T Dakin: The book focuses on six eras, each characterized as a “declaration of war”. First is the 1917 Balfour Declaration endorsing creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Second is the 1948 Nakba expelling a large number of Palestinians from Palestine. Third is the 1967 six-day war in which Israel gains territory. Fourth is the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and East Jerusalem massacres. Fifth is the 1987 First Intifada and the controversial role of Arafat. Sixth is the Second Intifada and the rise of Fatah and Hamas. General themes are that the Palestinians have been the unfortunate pawns in much larger geopolitical games, and that the Palestinians themselves could have been more effective at making a unified plea to the world. The author is extremely well versed through family and connections in all of the events over the 100 years. While generally critical of Israel and Zionism, he is not afraid to lay some of his criticism on the Palestinians themselves. Having spent most of my life bathed in the story presented by Zionism and Israel it was good to hear a different side of the story deserving more attention. Through much of the book I was immersed in too much detail and not...

United States on Jan 26, 2022

David I. Howells: A short but informative account of the grand mama of Middle Eastern conflicts. I also found it quite a sensible unbiased narrative in general considering the author is from a leading Palestinian family. Overall I found it a very good read as an overview to the Israeli/Palestine problem, not exactly a lively or jolly read as this is a pretty morose topic. A topic that is best surmised by the phrase Orlando Bloom used as he is defending Jerusalem against Saladin in the epic film that is The Kingdom of Heaven....'Who has claim? No one has claim, all have claim!'

United Kingdom on Sep 13, 2021

Neill Brownstein: Until reading Professor Rashid Khalidi's book, I had (and still have) inadequate knowledge about this small piece of land called by some the Land of Israel and called by others the Land of Palestine.

Professor Khalidi skips the hard edge blame game to relate his own family's experiences over the century when Zionism took shape and took control .

His research from the late 1800s, the Basel Conference of 1897, the support Hertzl, Weissman and Ben-Gurion amalgamated for the creation of Israel is well known to me and many others . I was not aware of the indigenous Palestinian inept organizing and inept leadership during the five decades of the groundwork that created the modern State of Israel. This ineptitude continues today as Fatah and Hamas are unable to work together for the betterment of the Palestinian people.

Even with inept Palestinian leadership, world opinion has tilted to support for the underdog Palestinian people..

Professor Khalidi does not present a solution to the conflict.... Other than to pose and awaken that the 8 million Jews and 4 million Palestinians need to embrace the today reality that neither group is going away. Both the Jews and...

United States on Aug 02, 2021

A H Kobayashi: This short book is rather ambitious in the sense that it sums up the history of the conflicts in Israel/Palestine in just over 250 pages. So inevitably, Khalidi left out certain details. His assessment of the history of the conflict is in a way predictable, as he portrays Zionism as nothing but a colonial movement and he blames Britain and then the US for propping up Israel as if it had been a victim of persecution by the Arabs. There are some puzzling omissions, as he does not talk much about the real motives of the Arab nations in the wake of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. The Hashemite kingdom’s role in early Jewish immigration cannot be ignored in this history, but he does not touch this thorny issue. The big surprise is the almost total omission of the Yom Kippur War. Although Khalidi did experience Israeli violence in Lebanon personally, he doesn’t sound like someone in close touch with the people actually there, especially in Gaza. That is indeed the problem of the PLO or the Fatah, by his own admission, that they were out of touch. As I always got an impression that they were playing a cynical power game, by deliberating placing the Palestinians in harms way so...

United States on May 27, 2021

Alec Sandretta: Rashid Khalidi has drawn on his family library and archives, and the involvement of his family, and indeed, himself in writing a history of what he calls the War against Palestine. In six chapters he shows how a combination of a European Zionist movement in alliance with foreign powers have not only denied Palestnians their right to govern themselves, but waged war against them every time they tried. Thus, the first declaration of War was the Balfour Declaration of 1917; the second the UN Partition Plan of 1947; the third the UN Security Council Resolution 242 that followed the 1967 War; the fourth Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982; the fifth the Intifada of 1987 which culminated in the forlorn Oslo Accords and the Peace Treaty of 1993; and the sixth the Second Intifada of 2000, enabling Khalidi to conclude his analysis with 'President' Kushner's policies on Jerusalem, the 'Golan Heights' (Jabal al-Jawlan), and the current, if still-born proposal to end the conflict with the Palestinians by throwing Gulf money at them. Having closed the PLO officee in Washington DC and withdrawn funding from UNRWA, one wonders how the USA communicnates with the PLO, and indeed, why the PLO...

United Kingdom on Sep 01, 2020

postgrad: This book charts the key stages in the dispossession of the Palestinian people by Zionists, assisted in particular by Britain and the United States, over the course of one-hundred years. It’s a fluent historical account which succeeds in being simultaneously scholarly and very readable. It is also up to date and ends with President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital (which as Khalidi notes was entirely consistent with the great powers’ history of disposing of Palestinian history, identity, culture and worship without even the pretence of consultation).

It has a number of advantages over other books on the subject. The author is able to draw on texts in Arabic which lie outside the competence of many writers on this subject. Secondly, Rashid Khalidi was born into an elite Palestinian family, and the story of dispossession is a very personal one. He describes how his grandparents were forced out of their home by Jews in 1948 and how the ruins of their house still stand abandoned on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, preserved only because of a link to an early Zionist settler. He includes a photograph of the ruins of his brother’s home in the West...

United Kingdom on Feb 14, 2020