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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
Arabism and a sense of belonging to the larger Arab world always remained strong, but Palestinian identity was constantly reinforced by Britain’s bias in favor of the burgeoning Zionist project.
Rashid Khalidi • The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
Palestinian Liberation After the Destruction of Gaza
jewishcurrents.orgJust like Zionism, Palestinian and other Arab national identities were modern and contingent, a product of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century circumstances, not eternal and immutable. The denial of an authentic, independent Palestinian identity is of a piece with Herzl’s colonialist views on the alleged benefits of Zionism to the indigenous
... See moreRashid Khalidi • The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
He was “Palestine’s national leader”12 when he made his alliance with Hitler and played an active role in the Holocaust.
Alan Dershowitz • The Case for Israel
This marked the beginning of a long, slow process of shifting away from the maximalist objective of the democratic state, with its revolutionary implications, to an ostensibly more pragmatic aim of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, to be achieved via negotiations on the basis of SC 242.
