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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

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 also viewable on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/palestinebookshelf/p/the-hundred-years-war-on-palestine Copy of the summary below: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KiBSLYqj5qd2TXU4cE9pLfRGg3Pdis7rd5fwQxwx-Tw/edit?tab=t.qlcudpdxuuf Summary of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi OVERVIEW The video is a book review of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance from 1917 to 2017 by Professor Rashid Khalidi. The presenter describes it as an "express version" of a longer two-part review previously done on his main channel, totaling about an hour. He praises the book as one of the best single-volume works providing the Palestinian perspective, ideal for someone new to the topic wanting a shorter overview. The video breaks the book's content into six historical eras (or "declarations of war") from 1917 to 2017, reading one or two excerpts per era. The purpose of the video is to educate viewers on the Palestinian side of the conflict, highlight the book's unflinching analysis of mistakes made, and encourage grassroots support for Palestinian narratives. MAIN THESIS The book's main thesis frames the history from 1917 to 2017 as a "hundred years' war" of settler colonialism against the Palestinian people and their resistance. It argues that Zionism, backed by British and later international powers, aimed to establish a Jewish state through displacement and control, but failed to fully supplant the indigenous Arab population. Settler colonial confrontations end in one of three ways: elimination or subjugation of natives (as in North America), defeat and expulsion of the colonizer (rare, as in Algeria), or abandonment of colonial supremacy through compromise (as in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Ireland). Today, with the Arab population in Palestine/Israel roughly equal to or larger than the Jewish population from the Jordan River to the sea, this demographic reality poses a central moral question to Zionism's legitimacy. The thesis critiques Zionist ideology as rooted in "blood and soil" nationalism, emphasizing the need for grassroots political work by Palestinians in the US, recognizing the US's bias against Palestinian aspirations, and rejecting flawed PLO strategies since the 1980s. HISTORICAL CONTEXT The book covers 1917 to 2017, divided into six eras of conflict. The first (1917-1939) begins with the Balfour Declaration and ends with the Arab Revolt (1936-1939). Britain sought geopolitical control over Palestine, sponsoring Zionism for strategic reasons while making contradictory promises to Arabs (e.g., Hussein-McMahon correspondence, Sykes-Picot agreement). The Zionist movement was officially recognized via the Mandate for Palestine, granting privileges to the Jewish Agency while denying them to the Arab majority unless they accepted the Balfour Declaration. The second era (1947-1948) involves the UN Partition Plan (Resolution 181) and the ethnic cleansing of Palestine leading to Israel's establishment. The third (1967) covers the Six-Day War, debunking myths of Israeli vulnerability. The fourth (1982) focuses on the Lebanon invasion and Sabra-Shatila massacres. The fifth (1987-1995) addresses the First Intifada. The sixth (2000-2014) extends to events like the 2014 Gaza assault, with the presenter noting it could apply to 2025. The video ties these to ongoing Israel-Palestine issues, referencing related works like Ghassan Kanafani's on the 1936-1939 revolt and Benny Morris's on 1948. KEY IDEAS The book conceptualizes the conflict as successive "declarations of war" by colonial powers and Israel against Palestine. Key ideas include British imperialism's role in enabling Zionism for control, not altruism; the UN partition as a violation of self-determination, necessitating Palestinian expulsion for a Jewish majority; the 1967 war as unprovoked aggression, not defensive, perpetuating a myth of existential threat to justify policies; the 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty restricting Palestinian negotiations to "self-rule" without sovereignty; the 1982 Lebanon invasion as an attempt to destroy Palestinian nationalism, culminating in massacres; the First Intifada as spontaneous grassroots resistance impossible to suppress; and post-2000 escalations as continued colonization. Excerpts highlight: Britain's "central" strategic interest in Palestine (2:08; expulsion of 300,000 Palestinians before May 15, 1948 (4:24); UN 181 as a "declaration of war" ignoring Palestinian rights (5:28); 1967 as non-existential threat (7:43); Begin's policies ceiling Palestinian demands (8:41; author's personal account of 1982 Beirut siege and building demolition killing refugees (11:15); Intifada's 1,422 Palestinian deaths vs. 175 Israeli (14:25); 2014 Shuja'iyya bombardment as disproportionate (17:45); Zionism's failure to eliminate natives, with demographic inequality as moral core (19:37). EVIDENCE AND RESEARCH ...
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