The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members—mayors, judges, scholars, diplomats, and journalists—The Hundred Years' War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations of the conflict, which tend, at best, to describe a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same territory.

Instead, Khalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel but backed by Britain and the United States, the great powers of the age.

He highlights the key episodes in this colonial campaign, from the 1917 Balfour Declaration… show more.

According to one reviewer Rashid Khalidi’s recently published book is "the first true people’s history of the hundred-year struggle of the Palestinian people." The narrative begins with the British Mandate facilitating the deprivation of their land from the original inhabitants of Palestine. Skillful manipulation of the world powers and the UN by Zionists, and woeful disorganization among the Palestine notables and still partly colonized Arab states help to produce the continuing Palestinian tragedy.