The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017 in The Majority Report Podcast Goodreads Group

Sep 03, 2024 Erin rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Terrorism: the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians in pursuit of political aims.

Ethnic Cleansing: the forced removal of a particular ethnic, racial, or religious group from an area to make it ethnically homogeneous.

"What happened in the Dahiya quarter will happen in every village from which Israel is fired on. We will apply disproportionate force on it and cause great damage and destruction there. From our standpoint, these are not civilian villages they are Terrorism: the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians in pursuit of political aims.

Ethnic Cleansing: the forced removal of a particular ethnic, racial, or religious group from an area to make it ethnically homogeneous.

"What happened in the Dahiya quarter will happen in every village from which Israel is fired on. We will apply disproportionate force on it and cause great damage and destruction there. From our standpoint, these are not civilian villages they are military bases. This is not a recommendation. This is the plan. And it has been approved."
Maj. Gen Gadi Eizenkot (Israeli chief of staff)

I'm going to start this off by saying Free Palestine 🇵🇸. If you have a problem with that, unfriend me or block me because it's Free Palestine for life over here.

I started this book months ago, but I just couldn't read it. I've had to limit my intake of Palestine news to 10 minutes a day because it really upsets me. I have the privilege to do that as an American with no personal ties to Palestine. I can turn it off, but there are millions of Americans who can not. A Brookings Institute poll from December 2016 found that 46% of Americans and 60% of Democrats supported sanctions for Israel over its illegal construction of settlements in the West Bank. I don't know anyone in my personal life, and that includes people who are planning to vote for Trump, who dont think Israel is committing Genocide. I finally decided that I needed to finish this book and that I was going to do it in 2 days. Mission Accomplished.

The Hundred Years War on Palestine is a must-read in this time in which my country, the United States, is financially supporting the genocide of the Palestinian people. I unfortunately don't think Palestine will exist in 20 years so it's important to know the history of this occupied nation while it still exists and to tell future generations about all the countries with Palestinian blood on their hands. Rashid Khalidi the author points out the striking parallels between Palestinians and Native Americans. Both groups are cast as backward and uncivilized, a murderous, violent and irrational obstacle to progress and modernity. If you are American than you know how things turned out for the Native Americans....very very not good.

Hamas is painted as the boogie man but it wouldn't even exist with the Oslo Accords. Hamas was able to rise because previous Palestinian leaders had been to cowardly towards the Israeli government. Gaza is an open air prison and has been that way for years. October 7th 2023 wasn't the beginning of anything, it just exposed something that had been bubbling under for more than 60 years. 53% of Palestinians lived in poverty pre October 7th. Unemployment was 52% pre October 7th. Most Palestinians can't work in Isreal without a special permit which are extremely hard to get. They can't travel on certain roads in Palestine without Israeli permission. The vast majority of Palestinians are trapped in Gaza and the West Bank. While American and European settlers have full rights to do anything they please. Palestinians have no sovereignty, no jurisdiction and no authority except what Israel allows. Israel even controls major Palestinian revenues including certain taxes.

As I said before I don't think Palestine will exist in 20 years. Israel and it's biggest supporter The United States want every Palestinian dead or at least displaced. And no other countries seem willing to piss off the U.S. so they won't be coming to the Palestinians aid either. Trump will give Bibi anything he wants and Biden is blood thirsty for a Palestinian genocide. What will Kamala do? Unfortunately I don't think she'll do much so once again I'm ashamed to say that Palestine is fucked. We are all just going to watch an ethnic cleansing and it's soul crushing.

A Must Read!

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Dec 04, 2023 J-Reads rated it it was amazing

A deeply personal history of the disastrous last century of colonial oppression on the Palestinians. Rashid Khalidi has first hand experience personally and through family of the horrors' of living under Israeli apartheid rule. The book provides much needed context to the struggles of the Palestinians and to the history of overwhelmingly one sided conflict. ...more

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