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Khalidi also interpolates the experiences and archives of his family into the historical account. The Khalidi family was a prominent, politically active, Palestinian family, who established a library and archive in the Old City of Jerusalem in 1900. They were directly involved in the Palestinian resistance throughout the period discussed in the book.
Khalidi shows how the Palestine-Israel war was never one between two equal national movements, but instead a settler-colonialist project pushed by the European-based Zionist movement.
Khalidi’s great-great-great uncle Yusuf Diya al-Din Pasha al-Khalidi wrote to the Zionist movement’s founder, Theodor Herzl in 1899, criticising the intention to create a sovereign Jewish state in Palestine, warning that it would be unacceptable to Palestinians.
Palestine situation more difficult after Israel-Arab rapprochement
Sat, Mar 13 2021 11:54:42 AM
New Delhi, Mar 13 (IANS): The already difficult Palestinian movement has been made more difficult with four Arab states normalising relations with Israel and India can play an important role to right the imbalanced situation between Israel and the Palestinians , says Palestinian American historian Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and Director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia s School of International and Public Affairs. The Palestinian national movement was in a difficult situation before four Arab states normalized relations with Israel, largely because of its internal divisions. These moves by the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan, all driven by considerations completely unrelated to Palestine, make its situation more difficult, Khalidi, who has authored the seminal The Hundred Years War on Palestinians: A Hist