The Hundred Years War on Palestine By Rashid Khalidi, Enemies and Neighbours Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel By Ian Black 2 Books Collection Set

by Ian Black

Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched The Hundred Years War on Palestine By Rashid Khalidi, Enemies and Neighbours Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel By Ian Black 2 Books Collection The Hundred Years' War on The twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians has been a century of denial of statehood, denial of nationhood and denial of history. The Hundred Years War on Palestine is Rashid Khalidi's powerful response. Drawing on his family archives, he reclaims the fundamental right of any to narrate their history on their own terms. Beginning in the final days of the Ottoman Empire, Khalidi reveals nascent Palestinian nationalism and the broad recognition by the early Zionists of the colonial nature of their project. Enemies and Neighbours Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Drawing on a wide range of sources - from declassified documents to oral testimonies and his own decades of reporting - Enemies and Neighbours brings much-needed perspective and balance to the long and unresolved struggle between Arabs and Jews in the Holy Land. Beginning in the final years of Ottoman rule and the British Mandate period, when Zionist immigration transformed Palestine in the face of mounting Arab opposition, the book re-examines the origins of what was a doomed relationship from the start. It sheds fresh light on critical events such as the Arab rebellion of the 1930s; Israel's independence and the Palestinian catastrophe (Nakba in Arabic) of 1948; the watershed of the 1967 war; two Intifadas; the Oslo Accords and Israel's shift to the right.

Genres: History

976 pages, Paperback

Published December 1, 2023

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Reviews

[Michael Ecker · Rating 4 out of 5]

As an American Jew who has pretty much grown up with a Jewish perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this book was a major eye-opener. The author is discredited by many as fervently anti-Zionist. If your litmus test is whether a writer is critical of Israel, then I guess he is.

The colonial conquest of Palestine, by Israel, supported strongly by the US, is hard to deny. The myth of tiny Israel being overwhelmed by surrounding Arab countries bent on its destruction (including terror groups like Fatah and Hamas) is undeniable. But we ignore that Israel has enormous military advantages over its foes (military hardware, munitions, fire-power). And in every clash or full-scale war, Israel’s military might has proven overwhelmingly powerful.

At the time of the Balfour Declaration in 1916, Palestine was 95% Palestinian (indigenous). These second-class citizens have either fled to other countries or been pushed into Gaza and the West Bank and they have few rights. Settlements continue to grow. As an American, it’s hard to miss the similarities between our treatment of Native Americans and Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.

We call Israel a democracy that espouses equality?

The 10/7 massacre of more than 1,200 Israeli Jews by Hamas is nothing short of horrific and completely unconscionable.

But most people are unaware of the many massacres of Palestinian innocent civilians from the 1930’s to the present either directly or indirectly engineered by the military.

Khalili is no fan of Hamas, the PLO, or Fatah. Khalili sees no place for these terror groups in the future of Palestinians. Nor does he give a pass to Israel’s neighbors. He advocates for Palestinians to give up violence in return for equal rights in a two state solution where all 10 million Jews and Palestinian have equal rights. Easier said than done, obviously, for many reasons.

There is much more packed in this brilliant book.

Unfortunately, it will fall on deaf ears among those who long ago decided that supporting Israel’a policies blindingly is the only course.

I urge you to set aside all your pre-conceived notions and wade into this book. It will make you feel very uncomfortable if you are, like me, a supporter of an Israeli state.

[Vivian Witkind · Rating 4 out of 5]

The horror of the Gaza War and accompanying campus unrest made me realize that I knew little about the Palestinian side of the story. Rashid Khalidi gave me a new perspective, in fact pounded it in. If the concept of Palestine as a nation was weak and unconvincing a century ago, Khalidi shows an identity forged through endless war and imposed exclusion. Effective, rational leadership, though, has been sadly missing at crucial junctures. And the Israelis have often been close to ruthless in their attempt to maintain their homeland. In 1984, 40 years ago, President Ronald Reagan wrote in his diary of a conversation with Israeli prime minister Menachim Begin during an Israeli offensive, “I told him it had to stop…I used the word holocaust deliberately and said the symbol of his war was becoming a picture of a 7-month old baby with its arms blown off.”
Plus ca change; plus c’est la même chose. There are two indigenous peoples in the same tiny geographical area of the Middle East. And Israel is a homeland, not a colony. Yet Israel’s all-out campaign of destruction is sickening. We need a Palestinian state with autonomy, firm boundaries, and modern government institutions that focus internally on the nation’s welfare, rather than investing in never-ending war. And I wish there were new leadership in Israel, too.

[Sandra Licher · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was an excellent book and explained the history and present struggle that the Palestinians have gone though and are going through. Thank goodness for social media as the corporate media in the U.S. would never tell the truth of the situation. Now that we are made aware of the atrocities that have been perpetrated by Israel and supported by the U.S. and other major players....hopefully things will change for the better for the Palestinians. Unfortunately here in the U.S. we have 2 criminals running for the office of the president. I so respect and admire all of the protestors around the world who are making a difference and hopefully contributing to a free and hopeful future for the Palestinians.

[Joseph O’Connor · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book did its function for me. Informed me on a key subject that I wanted to learn more about from the balfour declaration all the way up to the formation of Hamas. However, I just don’t think it was as well written as other books I have read.