On War
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils ahead, ending his note, “in the name of God, let Palestine be left alone.” Thus Rashid Khalidi, al-Khalidi’s great-great-nephew, begins this sweeping history, the first general account of the conflict told from an explicitly Palestinian perspective. 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. Instead, Khalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel, but backed by Bri
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A Columbia historian and son of a Palestinian diplomat traces a hundred years of war on Palestine, from the Balfour Declaration to the present, drawing on letters and documents from his own family archive.
Multiple books share this title. The most commonly searched is Carl von Clausewitz's classical military treatise On War (Vom Kriege), published posthumously between 1832 and 1834. The metadata above lists Rashid Khalidi, who wrote The Hundred Years' War on Palestine, sometimes shortened in searches.
Yes. Clausewitz's On War was published in 1832 and is in the public domain. Free editions of older English translations are available through Project Gutenberg. Modern translations (Howard and Paret, Princeton 1984) remain copyrighted.
On War is 352 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, On War takes most readers 5 to 8 hours to finish.
On War is a standalone novel by Rashid Khalidi, not part of a series.
On War is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
