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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance

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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

By: Rashid I. Khalidi
Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi, Rashid I. Khalidi
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Shortlisted for the 2020 Cundill History Prize

The twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians has been a century of denial: 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 people: 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. These ideas and their echoes defend Nakba - the Palestinian term for the establishment of the state of Israel - the cession of the West Bank and Gaza to Jordan and Egypt, the Six Day War and the occupation. Moving through these critical moments, Khalidi interweaves the voices of journalists, poets and resistance leaders with his own accounts as a child of a UN official and a resident of Beirut during the 1982 siege. The result is a profoundly moving account of a hundred-year-long war of occupation, dispossession and colonialisation.

©2020 Rashid I. Khalidi (P)2010 BBC Audiobooks Ltd. Israel & Palestine Middle East Politics & Government World War Imperialism Iran Thought-Provoking Africa Royalty Ottoman Empire Military Middle Ages

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'Riveting and original...a work enriched by solid scholarship, vivid personal experience, and acute appreciation of the concerns and aspirations of the contending parties in this deeply unequal conflict.' Noam Chomsky
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Excellent pronunciation by narrator, well researched and amazingly written. I'm buying a physical copy of this book now for note taking!!

Beautifully written

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Totally worth listening! It will give all a very clear picture of past, present and future of Palestine.

100 years of injustice

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Really sad but truth backed up with facts. Will listen to again. I will buy the book too so I can refer to it and share with friends.

I’m buying the physical copy of the book.

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a must read book, if only to view the current situation from a different perspective.

Fascinating

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What a resilient people, even in the case of such insurmountable odds. I hope that justice and truth will prevail one day.

free palestine

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