The Hundred Years' War on Palestine Paperback – January 26, 2021

Whether you purchase this from Amazon or through another retailer, this is a book that I highly recommend everyone read. Very educational and helpful in understanding more of the dynamics of that region of the world.

This book changed my life. I was woefully ill-informed about the modern history of Palestine (and that is pretty inexcusable for a clergyperson), and this book gave me the facts I needed to clarify and stand by my moral commitments. The argument that "if you are pro-Palestinian then you are anti-Semitic" doesn't hold water, full stop. Also ... I have rarely read a more satisfying conclusion chapter, where the author brings in fresh insight and connects the dots, keeping us learning and expanding to the very end. Bravo, and thank you, Rashid Khalidi.

Amazing book filled with tons of historical information and offers a wide look at the Palestinian occupation. Would highly recommend.

The book is a good source of information, giving a timeline of the last hundred years. It’s obviously from a different perspective, and a strongly partisan and sanctimonious one at that. But it’s a good thing to hear the Palestinian perspective, even if Khalidi can be in an insufferable perpetual victim mode. As such, he ducks or superficially addresses some of the most serious issues that are the Palestinians own problem.The first is the shocking violence they have committed, with a level of cruelty that is incomprehensible to many Westerners. Deliberately targeting and trying to inflict as much bloodshed on innocent civilians, including elderly, women, and children. ‘Deliberate’ the operative word there. He talks about this savagery in the abstract, but his only apparent problem with it is that is can be a PR setback. And, of course, even his scant mentioning of it is always preceded with a denunciation of Israeli use of force, as if it’s only a reaction to the Israeli violence, and as if that justifies it. While the disproportionate use of force by Israel is a legitimate issue, the moral equivalence argument falls short because Khalidi only seems to be troubled by one side of it. He just can’t face that there is a very real depraved cruelty, and it’s not just a false image propagated by Israeli propaganda with their influence on the US media. It’s real, its wrong, it has a hugely negative effect on sympathy for Palestinians, and it’s a Palestinian problem.The other issue he ducks, and scarcely mentions, is Islam. And how it affects the entire issue. His book reads as if everyone is non-religious. In reality, the Palestinian issue is a huge for Muslims, including the radical element, who have made it their rallying cry. Whether he likes it or not, Palestine is given as a reason for almost every genuine Islamic terror attack, and it is reflexively given as an excuse afterward. And this includes 9/11, which, incredibly, Khalidi doesn’t even mention in the book. Khalidi has no problem being judgmental throughout the book, but he hides under the table when it comes to how Palestine is a raison de guerre and a rationalization for real, and savage, Islamic terror worldwide.On the bright side, he gives a good account of the United States’ role in the negotiations. It was interesting to read that James Baker and George Mitchell had a more balanced view in the conflict, but they were overrun or outmaneuvered by the hardline pro Zionists, like Dennis Ross. The United States position became so one sided that they may as well have just sat on the Israel side of the table. Something that is evident to anyone paying attention on the matter.So read the book to get a lot of historical information and to get a different perspective, even if the perspective, while interesting, includes denial.

This is a very detailed book. It's very heavy reading, but if you are looking for factual information it's exactly what you need to fully understand the history of Palestine. This is the history you were never told about, and after reading this book you will never view the Palestinian/Israeli conflict the way you used to. You haven't been told the whole story until you've read this book.

Professor Khalidi's book is passionate and informative and effectively advances his thesis that Israel is a colonial project that has been waging war on The Land's native inhabitants, the Palestinians, for over 100 years. Despite this thesis Khalidi still puts forth the Israeli point of view sincerely. Because of the quality of Khalidi's writing and argument "The Hundred Years' War" deserves 5 stars.However, this book is not a complete view of the conflict - nor does it claim to be. "Hundred Years' War" is short and cannot cover all of the conflict in 260 pages. However Khalidi's glaring rhetorical and historical omissions damage the work's value and venture into dishonesty. Most importantly, Khalidi never addresses the obvious ways that Zionism is vastly different from colonial projects. Furthermore, Khalidi never discusses, even in passing, the 1973 war, Israeli's unilateral withdrawal from Gaza (leaving it virtually entirely self-governed), and Iran's extensive threats against Israel and involvement in the conflict. Finally, Khalidi consistently depicts Israel as a power of almost mythical proportions, a towering behemoth impervious to attack and unfazed by its enemies. This categorization is almost completely in disregard of plain fact. When he discusses the 1948 war in the second chapter of his book, for example, he describes Israeli victory as all but certain, and never mentions that the hostile Arab's states population at the time was 20 million (Egypt) + 1.25 million (Syria) + 430,000 (Jordan) + 1.3 million (Lebanon) + 5 million (Iraq) = ~28 million while Israel's population was roughly 800,000. Khalidi also doesn't mention that the Arabs were far better equipped than the Israelis. The complete lack of mention of these critical facts and countless others severely degrades "The Hundred Years' War" 's value.

Important insight to understanding history of colonial settlements in Palestine.

For ANYONE that does not know the history of Palestine, and the events leading up to the absolute horrors and miseries confronting the Palestinians today...this is ESSENTIAL reading. Also an excellent refresher course before forming up uninformed decisions and opinions....