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I just finished "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine" by Rashid Khalidi. It's an introductory history of zionism and the genocide of the Palestinian people, making it clear beyond any shadow of a doubt that zionism was from the outset a colonial ideology, unconcerned with the fate of the Palestinians, and perpetrating (under all Israeli prime ministers!) a genocide.
Review of "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine"; pol, genocide, zionism

It's chronological, so it starts out in the 19th century at the beginnings¹ of zionism, showing that the leaders of early zionism either (at least in their public facing communication) didn't understand and care about the implications of their actions for the Palestinians or were well aware that violence would be necessary. It goes over Britain's support (including the treacherous Balfour Declaration) and how Jewish immigration was strongly encouraged to turn together with the murder of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian people in the Nakba and beyond the previously Arab land to an Jewish one, enabling the founding of modern Israel.

Since his family is what appears to be some kind of former Palestinian nobility, Rashid Khalidi has a lot of relatives involved in the history he describes, giving it a nice human touch. Once we come to the time of his own life, he can describe it even more personally and it is quite heart-wrenching to not only see genocide and the struggle against it abstractly talked about, but to see it from someone's first-person perspective.

He goes over the various revolts, wars, and diplomatic actions (including how the Oslo accords actually just modernized the Palestinian apartheid, not solved it anyhow) happening and that Hezbollah and Hamas were helped/built by Israel to undermine the secular Palestinian leadership of the PLO and Fatah.

Very nice for such an uninformed person like me is that he does not hesitate to say his opinion about an organization or person, helping me to understand what is what (for example that – in contrast to their quite similar names – the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Liberation Front (PLF) are actually quite different – the PLO is the generally accepted leadership of the Palestinians, secular, and while in recent decades a bit ineffectual mostly quite good, while the PLF is a fringe organization, a front for an other regime (Iraq iirc), and mostly harmful to the Palestinian cause).

If you do not yet know about the history of Palestine/zionism well, I *very strongly* recommend you to read the book! It's a great summary of a very important topic and this post here has only summarized the book very quickly, leaving out most (e.g. I didn't even mention the US, even though the book very much does).

(¹ Technically it of course could be argued that the persecution that Jews faced the centuries before (which motivated zionism) is also part of zionism.)

#2024reads #FreePalestine

I just finished "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine" by Rashid Khalidi. It's an introductory history of zionism and the genocide of the Palestinian people, making it clear beyond any shadow of a doubt that zionism was from the outset a colonial ideology, unconcerned with the fate of the Palestinians, and perpetrating (under all Israeli prime ministers!) a genocide.
Review of "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine"; pol, genocide, zionism

It's chronological, so it starts out in the 19th century at the beginnings¹ of zionism, showing that the leaders of early zionism either (at least in their public facing communication) didn't understand and care about the implications of their actions for the Palestinians or were well aware that violence would be necessary. It goes over Britain's support (including the treacherous Balfour Declaration) and how Jewish immigration was strongly encouraged to turn together with the murder of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian people in the Nakba and beyond the previously Arab land to an Jewish one, enabling the founding of modern Israel.

Since his family is what appears to be some kind of former Palestinian nobility, Rashid Khalidi has a lot of relatives involved in the history he describes, giving it a nice human touch. Once we come to the time of his own life, he can describe it even more personally and it is quite heart-wrenching to not only see genocide and the struggle against it abstractly talked about, but to see it from someone's first-person perspective.

He goes over the various revolts, wars, and diplomatic actions (including how the Oslo accords actually just modernized the Palestinian apartheid, not solved it anyhow) happening and that Hezbollah and Hamas were helped/built by Israel to undermine the secular Palestinian leadership of the PLO and Fatah.

Very nice for such an uninformed person like me is that he does not hesitate to say his opinion about an organization or person, helping me to understand what is what (for example that – in contrast to their quite similar names – the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Liberation Front (PLF) are actually quite different – the PLO is the generally accepted leadership of the Palestinians, secular, and while in recent decades a bit ineffectual mostly quite good, while the PLF is a fringe organization, a front for an other regime (Iraq iirc), and mostly harmful to the Palestinian cause).

If you do not yet know about the history of Palestine/zionism well, I *very strongly* recommend you to read the book! It's a great summary of a very important topic and this post here has only summarized the book very quickly, leaving out most (e.g. I didn't even mention the US, even though the book very much does).

(¹ Technically it of course could be argued that the persecution that Jews faced the centuries before (which motivated zionism) is also part of zionism.)

#2024reads #FreePalestine

I just finished "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine" by Rashid Khalidi. It's an introductory history of zionism and the genocide of the Palestinian people, making it clear beyond any shadow of a doubt that zionism was from the outset a colonial ideology, unconcerned with the fate of the Palestinians, and perpetrating (under all Israeli prime ministers!) a genocide.
Review of "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine"; pol, genocide, zionism

It's chronological, so it starts out in the 19th century at the beginnings¹ of zionism, showing that the leaders of early zionism either (at least in their public facing communication) didn't understand and care about the implications of their actions for the Palestinians or were well aware that violence would be necessary. It goes over Britain's support (including the treacherous Balfour Declaration) and how Jewish immigration was strongly encouraged to turn together with the murder of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian people in the Nakba and beyond the previously Arab land to an Jewish one, enabling the founding of modern Israel.

Since his family is what appears to be some kind of former Palestinian nobility, Rashid Khalidi has a lot of relatives involved in the history he describes, giving it a nice human touch. Once we come to the time of his own life, he can describe it even more personally and it is quite heart-wrenching to not only see genocide and the struggle against it abstractly talked about, but to see it from someone's first-person perspective.

He goes over the various revolts, wars, and diplomatic actions (including how the Oslo accords actually just modernized the Palestinian apartheid, not solved it anyhow) happening and that Hezbollah and Hamas were helped/built by Israel to undermine the secular Palestinian leadership of the PLO and Fatah.

Very nice for such an uninformed person like me is that he does not hesitate to say his opinion about an organization or person, helping me to understand what is what (for example that – in contrast to their quite similar names – the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Liberation Front (PLF) are actually quite different – the PLO is the generally accepted leadership of the Palestinians, secular, and while in recent decades a bit ineffectual mostly quite good, while the PLF is a fringe organization, a front for an other regime (Iraq iirc), and mostly harmful to the Palestinian cause).

If you do not yet know about the history of Palestine/zionism well, I *very strongly* recommend you to read the book! It's a great summary of a very important topic and this post here has only summarized the book very quickly, leaving out most (e.g. I didn't even mention the US, even though the book very much does).

(¹ Technically it of course could be argued that the persecution that Jews faced the centuries before (which motivated zionism) is also part of zionism.)

#2024reads #FreePalestine

I just finished "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine" by Rashid Khalidi. It's an introductory history of zionism and the genocide of the Palestinian people, making it clear beyond any shadow of a doubt that zionism was from the outset a colonial ideology, unconcerned with the fate of the Palestinians, and perpetrating (under all Israeli prime ministers!) a genocide.
Review of "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine"; pol, genocide, zionism

It's chronological, so it starts out in the 19th century at the beginnings¹ of zionism, showing that the leaders of early zionism either (at least in their public facing communication) didn't understand and care about the implications of their actions for the Palestinians or were well aware that violence would be necessary. It goes over Britain's support (including the treacherous Balfour Declaration) and how Jewish immigration was strongly encouraged to turn together with the murder of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian people in the Nakba and beyond the previously Arab land to an Jewish one, enabling the founding of modern Israel.

Since his family is what appears to be some kind of former Palestinian nobility, Rashid Khalidi has a lot of relatives involved in the history he describes, giving it a nice human touch. Once we come to the time of his own life, he can describe it even more personally and it is quite heart-wrenching to not only see genocide and the struggle against it abstractly talked about, but to see it from someone's first-person perspective.

He goes over the various revolts, wars, and diplomatic actions (including how the Oslo accords actually just modernized the Palestinian apartheid, not solved it anyhow) happening and that Hezbollah and Hamas were helped/built by Israel to undermine the secular Palestinian leadership of the PLO and Fatah.

Very nice for such an uninformed person like me is that he does not hesitate to say his opinion about an organization or person, helping me to understand what is what (for example that – in contrast to their quite similar names – the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Liberation Front (PLF) are actually quite different – the PLO is the generally accepted leadership of the Palestinians, secular, and while in recent decades a bit ineffectual mostly quite good, while the PLF is a fringe organization, a front for an other regime (Iraq iirc), and mostly harmful to the Palestinian cause).

If you do not yet know about the history of Palestine/zionism well, I *very strongly* recommend you to read the book! It's a great summary of a very important topic and this post here has only summarized the book very quickly, leaving out most (e.g. I didn't even mention the US, even though the book very much does).

(¹ Technically it of course could be argued that the persecution that Jews faced the centuries before (which motivated zionism) is also part of zionism.)

#2024reads #FreePalestine

I just finished "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine" by Rashid Khalidi. It's an introductory history of zionism and the genocide of the Palestinian people, making it clear beyond any shadow of a doubt that zionism was from the outset a colonial ideology, unconcerned with the fate of the Palestinians, and perpetrating (under all Israeli prime ministers!) a genocide.
Review of "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine"; pol, genocide, zionism

It's chronological, so it starts out in the 19th century at the beginnings¹ of zionism, showing that the leaders of early zionism either (at least in their public facing communication) didn't understand and care about the implications of their actions for the Palestinians or were well aware that violence would be necessary. It goes over Britain's support (including the treacherous Balfour Declaration) and how Jewish immigration was strongly encouraged to turn together with the murder of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian people in the Nakba and beyond the previously Arab land to an Jewish one, enabling the founding of modern Israel.

Since his family is what appears to be some kind of former Palestinian nobility, Rashid Khalidi has a lot of relatives involved in the history he describes, giving it a nice human touch. Once we come to the time of his own life, he can describe it even more personally and it is quite heart-wrenching to not only see genocide and the struggle against it abstractly talked about, but to see it from someone's first-person perspective.

He goes over the various revolts, wars, and diplomatic actions (including how the Oslo accords actually just modernized the Palestinian apartheid, not solved it anyhow) happening and that Hezbollah and Hamas were helped/built by Israel to undermine the secular Palestinian leadership of the PLO and Fatah.

Very nice for such an uninformed person like me is that he does not hesitate to say his opinion about an organization or person, helping me to understand what is what (for example that – in contrast to their quite similar names – the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Liberation Front (PLF) are actually quite different – the PLO is the generally accepted leadership of the Palestinians, secular, and while in recent decades a bit ineffectual mostly quite good, while the PLF is a fringe organization, a front for an other regime (Iraq iirc), and mostly harmful to the Palestinian cause).

If you do not yet know about the history of Palestine/zionism well, I *very strongly* recommend you to read the book! It's a great summary of a very important topic and this post here has only summarized the book very quickly, leaving out most (e.g. I didn't even mention the US, even though the book very much does).

(¹ Technically it of course could be argued that the persecution that Jews faced the centuries before (which motivated zionism) is also part of zionism.)

#2024reads #FreePalestine

2024 is soon coming to a close, so if I still want to use the #2024reads hashtag for it I need to write the review for David Graeber's "Debt: The first 5000 years" soon. I struggle(d) quite a lot with writing one because as a history of debt it touches on so many topics and has such an important message that it's difficult to summarize. *Extremely* strong reading recommendation as it proves many of our deepest assumptions wrong.

It's freely available on the internet archive, so no reason not to read it:

https://archive.org/details/DebtTheFirst5000Years

2024 is soon coming to a close, so if I still want to use the #2024reads hashtag for it I need to write the review for David Graeber's "Debt: The first 5000 years" soon. I struggle(d) quite a lot with writing one because as a history of debt it touches on so many topics and has such an important message that it's difficult to summarize. *Extremely* strong reading recommendation as it proves many of our deepest assumptions wrong.

It's freely available on the internet archive, so no reason not to read it:

https://archive.org/details/DebtTheFirst5000Years

2024 is soon coming to a close, so if I still want to use the #2024reads hashtag for it I need to write the review for David Graeber's "Debt: The first 5000 years" soon. I struggle(d) quite a lot with writing one because as a history of debt it touches on so many topics and has such an important message that it's difficult to summarize. *Extremely* strong reading recommendation as it proves many of our deepest assumptions wrong.

It's freely available on the internet archive, so no reason not to read it:

https://archive.org/details/DebtTheFirst5000Years

2024 is soon coming to a close, so if I still want to use the #2024reads hashtag for it I need to write the review for David Graeber's "Debt: The first 5000 years" soon. I struggle(d) quite a lot with writing one because as a history of debt it touches on so many topics and has such an important message that it's difficult to summarize. *Extremely* strong reading recommendation as it proves many of our deepest assumptions wrong.

It's freely available on the internet archive, so no reason not to read it:

https://archive.org/details/DebtTheFirst5000Years

2024 is soon coming to a close, so if I still want to use the #2024reads hashtag for it I need to write the review for David Graeber's "Debt: The first 5000 years" soon. I struggle(d) quite a lot with writing one because as a history of debt it touches on so many topics and has such an important message that it's difficult to summarize. *Extremely* strong reading recommendation as it proves many of our deepest assumptions wrong.

It's freely available on the internet archive, so no reason not to read it:

https://archive.org/details/DebtTheFirst5000Years