While Palestine has seen many colonisers in over 2,000 years of continuous struggle, the last coloniser, the British, after promising both Jews and Palestine statehood, decided to jump ship when they could not stop the confrontation among natives, writes Yonela Diko.
Before the advent of Zionism and Arab nationalism, Jews and Palestinians lived in peace in the holy land. Menachem Klein’s new book maps out an oft-forgotten history of Israel/Palestine, and offers some guidance on how we may go back to that time. By Noam Rotem Menachem Klein’s book, Lives in Common: Arabs and Jews in…