The hundred years' war on Palestine

• Verfasst von: Khalidi, Rashid [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The hundred years' war on Palestine
• Titelzusatz: a history of settler colonialism and resistance, 1917-2017
• Verf.angabe: Rashid Khalidi
• Ausgabe: First edition
• Verlagsort: New York
• Verlagsort: London
• Verlag: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
• Verlag: Profile Book
• Jahr: 2020
• Jahr: 2020
• Umfang: 319 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen, Karten
• Fussnoten: Literaturangaben, Register
• ISBN: 978-1-62779-855-6
• ISBN: 978-1-78125-934-4
• Schlagwörter: (g)Palästina / (g)Israel / (s)Juden / (s)Palästinenser / (s)Israeli / (s)Zionismus / (s)Siedlung / (s)Bewaffneter Konflikt / (s)Nahostkonflikt
• Schlagwörter: (s)Palästinenser / (s)Palästinafrage / (s)Nahostkonflikt / (s)Internationaler Konflikt / (s)Historisches Ereignis / (s)Grundeigentum / (s)Konflikt / (s)Geschichte / (s)Siedlungspolitik / (s)Besetzte Gebiete / (s)Widerstand / (g)Palästina / (g)Israel
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: NQ 8849
• RVK-Notation: NK 4148
• K10plus-PPN: 1664464743

Abstract

In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils ahead, ending his note, "in the name of God, let Palestine be left alone." Thus Rashid Khalidi, al-Khalidi’s great-great-nephew, begins this sweeping history, the first general account of the conflict told from an explicitly Palestinian perspective. Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members - mayors, judges, scholars, diplomats, and journalists - The Hundred Years' War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations of the conflict, which tend, at best, to describe a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same territory. Instead, Khalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel, but backed by Britain and the United States, the great powers of the age. He highlights the key episodes in this colonial campaign, from the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the destruction of Palestine in 1948, from Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon to the endless and futile peace process.

Abstract

A history of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict told from the Palestinian perspective, arguing the period since the Balfour Declaration of 1917 has amounted to a hundred years of colonial war against the Palestinians