Mark Rizk Farag’s Reviews > The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017 > Status Update

The book provides a scathing critique of both the PLO and Hamas.

The PLO are described as the only Liberation movement that collaborated with occupiers and acted as proxies with no tangible gains.

Hamas are described using violent and vengeful methods that made life worse for the average Palestinian and soured the international image.

Just so we are clear, the critique of the Israeli state is rightfully intense.

Factors that remain consistent

- Colonial and post colonial support of the Israel by the UK then the USA
- The attempts of both the UK and the USA to pretend to be neutral arbitrator when they are anything but
- labelling of Palestinians as terrorists, which then justifies their murder
- Israeli use of excessive force and collective punishment of civilians
- Israel claiming it is the only ____ in the region

Two events mentioned in passing that I will have to read more about:

- The Armenian and Assyrian geonocides
- The Lebanese civil war

I always thought that Pan Arab nationalism was a force to be reckoned with, before dying a slow neo colonial death.

It turns out it was almost dead on arrival and much like today, the Arab states could never really get along.

The Saudi Arabian government seems to consistently be on the wrong side of history and I had no idea Jordan was so complicit.