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(HYB) Book Group: The Hundred Years War on Palestine by Rashid Khaladi

Tuesday, April 25, 2023 4 Iyyar 5783

7:00 PM - 8:30 PMHavurah Shalom and Zoom Room Bet

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. 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 to the destruction of Palestine in 1948, from Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon to the endless and futile peace process. Khaladi does not create a chronicle of victimization, nor does he whitewash the mistakes of Palestinian leaders or deny the emergence of national movements on both sides. In reevaluating the forces arrayed against the Palestinians, Khaladi offers an illuminating new view of this conflict.

Discussion led by Stacy Hankin. Nonmembers welcome. RSVP for Zoom info.

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