Israel unintentionally resurrected Palestinian resistance by its heavy-handed actions. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine is a roller-coaster ride through Palestinian history, one hundred years without a moment of solitude.” Khalidi points to the huge obstacles in the way: in Britain and later the US, Protestant Christians bought into this “colonial war” to “civilise” the native population. While Khalidi's book is an excellent, accessible, jargon-free overview for the uninitiated of the past century of the settler-colonial war against the Palestinian people, it is details like this that make the book an eye-opening gem for readers already intimately familiar with this history. Begun as the United States moved its armed forces into Iraq, Rashid Khalidi’s powerful and thoughtful new book examines the record of Western involvement in the region and analyzes the likely outcome of our most recent Middle East incursions. Looking for books by Rashid Khalidi? An illustration of a magnifying glass. from Yale University in 1970, and his D.Phil. Khalidi sets out his stall early on: the Palestine-Israel war was never one between two national movements contesting equally over the same land but was always a … Achetez neuf ou d'occasion Subsequently, Khalidi and his family members appear as central figures in the history of the Palestinian people, from his uncle's position on the Arab Higher Committee during the mandate and his banishment by the British to the Seychelles Island for his political activities, to his father's ground-level position at the UN where he watched the US collude with Israel to enable it to grab more territory before a cease-fire was imposed to end the 1967 war. The Jews needed an “iron wall” of bayonets. He has taught at the Lebanese University, the American University of Beirut, Georgetown University, and at the University of Chicago. Graduate Studies Programs Bachelor’s and Diploma Programs. He is editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies, and was President of the Middle East Studies Association, and an advisor to the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli peace negotiations from October 1991 until June 1993. Ironically, the PLO walked into a similar trap three-quarters of a century later by signing the Oslo Accords, a series of lopsided agreements with Israel which Khalidi appropriately refers to as a "gilded cage." Instead, the well-organised Zionist movement (and Israel) instinctively divided disunited opposition. Book Club: Rashid Khalidi's masterful book traces a hundred years of colonial war against Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and Israel but backed by Britain and the US. THE HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR ON PALESTINE A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 By Rashid Khalidi. (June 2019) Give the … He begins the book with a prescient letter sent by his cosmopolitan great-great-great-uncle, Yusuf Diya al-Din Pasha al-Khalidi, to Theodor Herzl, the founder of the modern Zionist movement in 1899. A line drawing of the Internet Archive headquarters building façade. 23 September, He is editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies, and was President of the Middle East Studies Association, and an advisor to the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli peace negotiations from October 1991 until June 1993. The Trump administration released its much … On May 10th, we posted about a correction we prompted to a Guardian review of a book by Rashid Khalidi, in which editors removed a sentence characterising Israel as ‘the tail that wags the dog” and a reference to a “powerful Israel lobby guiding US policy”. “Khalidi is arguably the foremost U.S. historian of the modern Middle East.”—Warren I. Cohen, Los Angeles Times Book Review “[T]he president . He slams Israel but his is also an elegy for the Palestinians, for their dispossession, for their failure to resist conquest. In it, Yusuf Diya argues that the fulfilment of the Zionist project would entail the dispossession of the Palestinian people, a prophecy amply borne out in Khalidi's book. This foundational text now features a new introduction by Rashid Khalidi reflecting on the significance of his work over the past decade and its relationship to the struggle for Palestinian nationhood. Khalidi explained that the main reason behind this title is that the concept of “war” in Palestine has been a false narrative and that there has always been an unequal struggle. Best Sellers Prime Video Today's Deals Help New Releases Books Gift Ideas Gift Cards & Top Up Vouchers Electronics Pantry Home & Garden Sell PC Free Delivery Shopper Toolkit. from Oxford University in 1974. Under Siege is Rashid Khalidi's firsthand account of the 1982 Lebanon War and the complex negotiations for the evacuation of the P.L.O. Khalidi excoriates the PLO for this "peculiar transaction, whereby a national liberation movement had obtained nominal recognition from its oppressors, without achieving liberation, by trading its own recognition of the state that had colonized its homeland and continued to occupy it. from Yale University in 1970, and his D.Phil. AAUP Launches a Book for Professor Rashid Khalidi Entitled " The 100 Years’ War on Palestine "Tuesday, June 30, 2020. Book Club: Rashid Khalidi’s masterful book traces a hundred years of colonial war against Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and Israel but backed by Britain and the US. 2020. Rashid Khalidi Receives 2020 Palestine Book Award . Achetez neuf ou d'occasion In 1947, no senior Palestinian leader had lived in or visited the US.Khalidi takes the reader through the long, hard years after 1948 when Israel (and neighbouring Arab states) screwed down the Palestinians. THE HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR ON PALESTINE A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 By Rashid Khalidi. Read more from TNA's Book Club: When We Were Arabs: Shattered Hopes: Obama's Failure to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace. The Trump administration released its much-delayed 'deal of the century' on the same day that Professor Rashid Khalidi published his, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi, Read more from TNA's Book Club: How the West Stole, Read more from TNA's Book Club: The Beauty of Your. Khalidi explained that the main reason behind this title is that the concept of “war” in Palestine has been a false narrative and that there has always been an unequal struggle. Author: IPS Washington. Arafat looms large in the book’s final chapters, and not to his credit. This foundational text now features a new introduction by Rashid Khalidi reflecting on the significance of his work over the past decade and its relationship to the struggle for Palestinian nationhood. Rashid Khalidi, Author Columbia University Press $90 (241p) ISBN 978-0-231-06186-5 He slams Israel but his is also an elegy for the Palestinians, for their dispossession, for their failure to resist conquest. While mainstream Zionism publicly proclaimed that the two communities in Palestine could live harmoniously together, Jewish activists such as Ze’ev Jabotinsky as early as 1923 presented the honest facts: all native populations will resist colonialists and Palestinians were no different. Free UK p&p on orders over £15. This foundational text now features a new introduction by Rashid Khalidi reflecting on the significance of his work over the past decade and its relationship to the struggle for Palestinian nationhood. In this retelling, he is tasked with briefing the US "peace process" team on a security coordination breakthrough about which, at first, both he and the Americans are incredulous. Noté /5. Rashid Khalidi is the author of seven books about the Middle East, among them the award-winning Palestinian Identity, Brokers of Deceit, and The Iron Cage. Khalidi sets out his stall early on: the Palestine-Israel war was never one between two national movements contesting equally over the same land but was always a … Last night historian Rashid Khalidi spoke about his important new book, Brokers of Deceit: How the US Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East, at the International Peace Institute in New York and… Rashid Khalidi, right, “helping out at a press briefing at the Commodore Hotel, Beriut,” 1982. In a taut, compelling, and erudite 255 pages, Khalidi paints a masterpiece overview not only of the apartheid system of rule the Zionist movement and Israel has established over the Palestinian people, but of their stubborn and resilient resistance to this system as well. news type: IPS in the Media. At the same time, they have employed high-sounding but dishonest rhetoric to cover up Israel's brutal behavior. [Metropolitan] Date of publication: 23 September, 2020. However, as Rashid Khalidi shows in his smart new book, American presidents from Truman to Obama have sided with Israel at almost every turn and helped it inflict immense pain and humiliation on the Palestinians. and Shattered Hopes: Obama's Failure to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace.Follow him on Twitter: @joshruebnerThe New Arab Book Club: Click on our Special Contents tab to read more book reviews and interviews with authors: Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa, A Match Made In Heaven: Muslim women talk desire, The Wolf of Baghdad: Memoir of a Lost Homeland, The Beauty of Your Face by Sahar Mustafah, Asylum for Sale: The intersection of capitalism and migration, Sign up to get this in your inbox every week, We use our own cookies and third-party cookies to measure traffic to our website and analyse browsers' behaviour, with a view to improving the services we offerIf you continue browsing, we consider that you accept the use of cookies. Rashid Khalidi. It is doubtful that any of Khalidi's previous books on Palestine made it onto Kushner's slim reading list. Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies. Retrouvez Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East et des millions de livres en stock sur Amazon.fr. • This article was amended on 7 and 9 May 2020 to comply with Guardian style. Britain crushed Palestinian resistance, doing the Jewish state-builders’ work for them. Many senior Israeli leaders came from America, knew the place, and spoke its language. The new book is a personal, an almost autobiographical book bringing up some of the author’s own experiences. Though this brief work doesn’t aim to be an exhaustive survey, it ably gets the reader up to speed on many of the disputes that have made the Middle East a flashpoint in today’s U.S. foreign policy. Skip to main content.ca Try Prime EN Hello, Sign in Account & Lists Sign in Account & Lists Returns & Orders Try Prime Cart. for the Fall Semester of the Academic Year 2020/2021. Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University, a former adviser to Palestinian negotiators, and the author of the forthcoming The Hundred Years’ War on the Palestinians: Settler-Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017. Guardian review of Rashid Khalidi book: distortions, lies and smears by Adam Levick On May 10th, we posted about a correction we prompted to a Guardian review of a book by Rashid Khalidi, in which editors removed a sentence characterising Israel as ‘the tail that wags the dog” and a reference to a “powerful Israel lobby guiding US policy”. It is a relentless story of Jewish-Israeli bad faith, alongside one of Palestinian corruption and political short-sightedness. should read [this book], not so much to chasten his sunny view of our recent past in the Middle East as to be reminded how very hard it is to make progress in a region where memories are long.”—James Traub, New York Times Book Review Rashid Khalidi's new book is a landmark history of the settler-colonial war against Palestinians. He received his B.A. It is these stories, gleaned from family documents and memoirs, oral history, and lived experiences, which enliven and enrich Khalidi's superb history. New Books in the Arts & Sciences: Celebrating Recent Work by Rashid Khalidi. . The Greater Israel settlement project on the West Bank continued apace, Israel arguing that Palestinians neither wanted peace nor accepted Israel, a point Khalidi contests.The Palestinians have belied David Ben Gurion’s reputed comment that “the old will die and the young will forget”. Khalidi concludes the book by analysing the policies of the Trump administration, arguing persuasively that "for the purpose of negotiations, the Palestinians ought to treat the United States as an extension of Israel. He is the latest from a long and distinguished family of academic and religious scholars, whose roots stretch back centuries to the Old City in Jerusalem. In Sowing Crisis, Khalidi criticizes U.S. policies during the Cold War, which, formulated to oppose the Soviets, "consistently undermined democracy and exacerbated… The March 6, 2009 issue of The Chronicle Review features an interview with Middle-East scholar Rashid Khalidi on his new book and also on the precarious place of Palestinian advocacy in American society. Begun as the United States moved its armed forces into Iraq, Rashid Khalidi's powerful and thoughtful new book examines the record of Western involvement in the region and analyzes the likely outcome of our most recent Middle East incursions. Central to Khalidi’s study are the deceits of the Zionist/Israeli leadership but bubbling up through the text are key moments of resistance that demanded the insurgent organisation and charisma of a Michael Collins, a Mahatma Gandhi, or a Ho Chi Minh. Khalidi participated in this history as an activist scion of a leading Palestinian family: in Beirut during the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and as part of the Palestinian negotiating team prior to the 1995 Israeli-Palestinian peace accords. It pulls no punches in its critique of Jewish-Israeli policies (policies that have had wholehearted US support after 1967), but it also lays out the failings of the Palestinian leadership. It is a relentless story of Jewish-Israeli bad faith, alongside one of Palestinian corruption and political short-sightedness.Khalidi sets out his stall early on: the Palestine-Israel war was never one between two national movements contesting equally over the same land but was always a “settler colonial conquest” by Europe-based Zionists whose founding father, Theodor Herzl, laid bare the project to Khalidi’s great-great-great uncle in 1899: Palestine’s indigenous population did not matter and would anyway benefit from the modernising effects of Jewish “pioneers”, such as America with its westward Manifest Destiny. Rashid Khalidi has 30 books on Goodreads with 8543 ratings. He has taught at the Lebanese University, the American University of Beirut, Georgetown University, and at the University of Chicago. Rashid Khalidi is the author of seven books about the Middle East, among them the award-winning Palestinian Identity, Brokers of Deceit, and The Iron Cage. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and many other journals. Rashid Khalidi is the author of Palestinian Identity, Brokers of Deceit, and The Iron Cage, among others. While presidents such as Eisenhower and Kennedy were willing to stand up to Israel, after 1967 – except Bush Snr and secretary of state James Baker – the rest fell into line. from Oxford in 1974. This exquisite timing was apropos. This is not to “blame the victim”. This book by Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine (Metropolitan Books, 2020), joins my short list of essential readings on Palestine, all of which support my conclusion that Palestine will be restored to the Palestinians, and the invented apartheid genocidal state of Israel (and Zionism) eliminated, within the decade. (Abdallah El-Binni, Al-Jazeera.) The peace after 1993 brought Arafat into Israel, where it monitored and controlled him. This foundational text now features a new introduction by Rashid Khalidi reflecting on the significance of his work over the past decade and its relationship to the struggle for Palestinian nationhood. Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University, a former adviser to Palestinian negotiators, and the author of the forthcoming The Hundred Years’ War on the Palestinians: Settler-Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017. Palestinian resistance endured, helped by the law of unintended consequences: Israel’s crushing of Egypt in 1967 boosted the PLO, while the 1982 Lebanon invasion prompted the 1987 intifada. Retrouvez Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East et des millions de livres en stock sur Amazon.fr. The quiescent and fratricidal politics of Palestinian notables during much of the British Mandate, the PLO's entry into the Oslo "peace process", and the nihilistic attacks by all Palestinian factions against Israeli civilians during the Second Intifada of the 2000s are scrutinised and abjured by Khalidi. Home NEWS AAUP Launches a Book for Professor Rashid Khalidi Entitled " The 100 Years’ War on Palestine "Admission Applications are now being Accepted !! At the same time, they have employed high-sounding but dishonest rhetoric to cover up Israel's brutal behavior. Regrettably, it is a distant hope.• Matthew Hughes’s Britain’s Pacification of Palestine is published by Cambridge. The Trump administration released its much-delayed 'deal of the century' on the same day that Professor Rashid Khalidi published his latest book, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017. (June 2019) As Israel came into being in 1948, the Palestinian negotiator with the UN didn’t even have a secretary. Skip to main content. This was a resounding, historic mistake, one with grave consequences for the Palestinian people.". In the post-Gulf War Madrid Conference and subsequent bilateral negotiations in Washington, Khalidi was at first an advisor to the Palestinian delegation and later a negotiator for it. Rashid Khalidi is the author of Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East (Beacon Press, 2013) and six other books about the Middle East--Sowing Crisis, The Iron Cage, Resurrecting Empire, Origins of Arab Nationalism, Under Siege, and the award-winning Palestinian Identity. Khalidi lays out remarkable exchanges between US and Israeli officials (including a thrusting young Benjamin Netanyahu) in which the US rolled over. [Metropolitan] Date of publication: 23 September, 2020. He started as he meant to continue, by cheating in student elections as a young man in Cairo. by Rashid Khalidi ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 1, 2009 How 50 years of destructive Cold War policies helped create the Middle East of today. ashid Khalidi’s account of Jewish settlers’ conquest of Palestine is informed and passionate. But the breakthrough is authenticated by PLO Chair Yasser Arafat, due to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's secret back-channels to him on security coordination that in turn facilitated the Oslo backchannel. While Khalidi expertly demonstrates that overwhelming and brute force has been applied against the Palestinian people through Britain's smashing of the 1936-1939 Arab Revolt, the ongoing Nakba, Israel's barbaric siege of Beirut, and its inhumane blockade and repeated attacks against the Gaza Strip in recent years, he also makes the case that the diplomatic machinations against the Palestinian people have constituted seminal declarations of war as well. Khalidi narrates fascinating behind-the-scenes details of the negotiations, which included proposals from the Palestinian negotiating team that could have avoided the Oslo trap of indefinite indeterminacy and perpetual occupation. Software Development . The selection of the title was the first point of discussion. To order a copy go to guardianbookshop.com. While this marks Khalidi’s eighth book on modern Middle East history, and fourth specifically on Palestine, it is different from its predecessors, he says, “in that it is much more personal”. Begun as the United States moved its armed forces into Iraq, Rashid Khalidi's powerful and thoughtful new book examines the record of Western involvement in the region and analyzes the likely outcome of our most recent Middle East incursions. The book is periodized into six 'Declarations of War' against the Palestinian people: The Balfour Declaration and ensuing British Mandate; the UN Partition Plan and its ineluctable crescendo of ethnic cleansing; Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip; its punishing war on Lebanon; the First Intifada and the Oslo "peace process"; and Israel's post-Camp David attempt at "politicide" of the Palestinian people, borrowing the late Israeli sociologist Baruch Kimmerling's apt term. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi By: Rashid Khalidi. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and many other publications. A passionate history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ... does the political will exist to bring about meaningful dialogue? However, Khalidi is also scathing in his assessment of some Palestinian decision-making which further diminished the already great odds of successfully resisting a highly motivated, organised, and strategic settler-colonial movement supported by imperial powers. See all books authored by Rashid Khalidi, including The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood, and Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East, and more on ThriftBooks.com. Khalidi also casts an eye to the future, noting the strength of Palestinian identity and social solidarity yet wondering whether current trends will lead to Palestinian statehood and independence. Noté /5. Last modified on Mon 18 May 2020 10.38 EDT. In order to gain official recognition by the mandatory authorities and argue their right to self-determination, Palestinian representative bodies would have had to accept the terms of the Mandate as a precondition, which negated the very national rights of the indigenous population. Trump's son-in-law and senior advisor wunderkind Jared Kushner bragged about reading 25 books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict prior to writing the 'deal of the century,' which reads more like a business plan PowerPoint than a serious attempt at resolving one of the most intractable issues in international relations. Book Club: Rashid Khalidi’s masterful book traces a hundred years of colonial war against Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and Israel but backed by Britain and the US. Nevertheless, the Trump administration's plan serves as a pertinent codicil to the thesis of Khalidi's latest book, which is that the Zionist movement and the State of Israel since 1948 have worked hand-in-glove with the superpowers of the day to impose brutal settler-colonial rule over the indigenous Palestinian people. Rashid Khalidi’s new book is a landmark history of the settler-colonial war against Palestinians. This never happened. [Metropolitan], Date of publication: The selection of the title was the first point of discussion. Khalidi also casts an eye to the future, noting the strength of Palestinian identity and social solidarity yet wondering whether current trends will lead to Palestinian statehood and independence. However, as Rashid Khalidi shows in his smart new book, American presidents from Truman to Obama have sided with Israel at almost every turn and helped it inflict immense pain and humiliation on the Palestinians. Rashid Khalidi is the author of seven books about the Middle East, including Palestinian Identity, Brokers of Deceit, Resurrecting Empire, The He received his B.A. from Oxford in 1974. The decentralised revolt against the British Mandate from 1936 to 1939, the PLO's reassertion of Palestine on the geopolitical agenda in the 1960s after it was almost consigned to oblivion in the aftermath of the Nakba, and the creative and nonviolent First Intifada of the late 1980s are marshalled as examples of the dynamism of the Palestinian people in refusing to acquiesce in plans for their dispossession. Khalidi largely accomplishes this feat by interweaving his and his family's personal experiences with this history. Rashid Ismail Khalidi (Arabic: رشيد خالدي ‎; born 1948) is a Palestinian American historian of the Middle East, the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, and director of the Middle East Institute of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs.He also is known for serving as editor of the scholarly journal Journal of Palestine Studies Fatah militants who had spent time in Israeli jails tortured Hamas detainees. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid I. Khalidi, 9781781259344, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. It also includes his wife Mona's heroic endeavours while pregnant to keep churning out news as the editor of the English-language bulletin of the Palestinian news agency Wafa during Israel's invasion of Lebanon. The six-day war, as America struggled in Vietnam, was a hinge event, turning the US to Israel as its prime ally against Soviet-backed Arab regimes. There is a useful tension here between colonial superstructure and the patriarchal hierarchy and cronyism underpinning Palestinian elite leadership. Rashid Khalidi, Author Columbia University Press $90 (241p) ISBN 978-0-231-06186-5 Online shopping from a great selection at Books Store. Books Advanced Search Amazon Charts Best Sellers & more Top New Releases Deals in Books School Books Textbooks Books Outlet Children's Books Calendars & Diaries 1-16 of 34 results for Books: Rashid Khalidi. Warning signs … abandoned Christian monasteries in the occupied West Bank are surrounded by landmines left over from the 1967 six-day war. from Oxford University in 1974. View our privacy policy. Date: November 9, 2020. As a superpower, it would necessarily be represented at any talks, but it should be considered as an adversarial party, even seated with Israel on the opposite side of the table, which would represent its real position at least since 1967.". Rashid Khalidi’s account of Jewish settlers’ conquest of Palestine is informed and passionate. . His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and many other publications. Rashid Khalidi’s most popular book is The Question of Palestine. The solution is meaningful dialogue, but this requires political will. Khalidi participated in this history as an activist scion of a leading Palestinian family: in Beirut during the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and as part of the Palestinian negotiating team prior to the 1995 Israeli-Palestinian peace accords. There was no Irish-style Dáil Éireann, no nascent branches of government, and no centralised military forces to outwit the British. These include the Catch-22 in which Palestinians were placed by the British during the Mandate. For Khalidi, stressing the fundamental inequality between Israeli Jews and the Palestinian people is the key to mobilising public opinion moving forward to eventually "reopen all the crucial issues created by the 1948 war" in order to end the now more than century-long settler-colonial war against the Palestinian people on the basis of justice.Josh Ruebner is Senior Principal at Progress Up Consulting and is the author of Israel: Democracy or Apartheid State? Rashid Khalidi’s new book is a landmark history of the settler-colonial war against Palestinians. Nothing changed. Begun as the United States moved its armed forces into Iraq, Rashid Khalidi’s powerful and thoughtful new book examines the record of Western involvement in the region and analyzes the likely outcome of our most recent Middle East incursions. Rashid Khalidi’s latest book, “The Iron Cage,” is at heart a historical essay, an effort to decide why the Palestinians have failed to achieve an independent state. Celebrations in Tel Aviv, 14 May 1948, on the proclamation of a new state of Israel. Short of another bout of ethnic cleansing, Israel is burdened with a resentful, growing, non-Jewish population. The British defeated a widespread revolt by Palestinians in 1936, in which their elites emblematically fought among themselves as they did against external enemies. It pulls no punches in its critique of Jewish-Israeli policies (policies that have had wholehearted US support after 1967), but it also lays out the failings of the Palestinian leadership. The new book is a personal, an almost autobiographical book bringing up some of the author’s own experiences. For Khalidi, Jewish settlers, aided by Britain from 1917, and by the US later on, colonised Palestine, creating and securing Israel through six “wars”: the Balfour declaration of 1917; the 1947 UN partition plan; the 1967 UN security council resolution 242; the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon; the 1993 Oslo peace accords; and Israeli leader Ariel Sharon’s Temple Mount visit in 2000.Palestinian leaders from elite notables in the 1930s to Yasser Arafat and PLO-Fatah in the 60s to Hamas never successfully channelled the people’s passion to resist. In this symposium, Prof. Khalidi talked about his new book and asserted on the specificity of this book as he used a historical narrative methodology for the first time which was different than any of his previous books about the Palestinian cause. 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