The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 is a 2020 book by Palestinian-American historian Rashid Khalidi, in which he describes the Zionist claim to Palestine in the century spanning 1917–2017 as a case of late settler colonialism and an instrument of British and later American imperialism, focusing on a series of six major episodes he characterizes as "declarations of war" on the Palestinian people. In the book, Khalidi argues that the struggle in Palestine should be understood not as one between two equal national movements fighting over the same land but rather as "a colonial war waged against the indigenous population, by a variety of parties, to force them to relinquish their homeland to another people against their will." Khalidi characterizes the war on Palestine as waged not only by the Zionist movement and Israel, but also by the great imperial powers that backed them. The book is oriented toward an American mainstream audience...

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