This essay argues that what has been going on in Palestine for a century has been mischaracterized. Advancing a different perspective, it illuminates the history of the last hundred years as the Palestinians have experienced it. In doing so, it explores key historical documents, including the Balfour Declaration, Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, and UN Security Council Resolution 242, none of which included the Palestinians in key decisions impacting their lives and very survival. What amounts to a hundred years of war against the Palestinians, the essay contends, should be seen in comparative perspective as one of the last major colonial conflicts of the modern era, with the United States and Europe serving as the metropole, and their extension, Israel, operating as a semi-independent settler colony. An important feature of this long war has been the Palestinians' continuing resistance, against heavy odds, to colonial subjugation. Stigmatizing such resistance as “terrorism” has successfully occluded the real history of the past hundred years in Palestine.
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November 01 2017
Historical Landmarks in the Hundred Years’ War on Palestine Available to Purchase
Rashid I. Khalidi
Rashid I. Khalidi
Rashid I. Khalidi is the editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies. He is Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University.
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Journal of Palestine Studies (2017) 47 (1): 6–17.
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Rashid I. Khalidi; Historical Landmarks in the Hundred Years’ War on Palestine. Journal of Palestine Studies 1 November 2017; 47 (1): 6–17. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jps.2017.47.1.6
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