A review by archytas
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

This is a mix of analysis, history and opinion. The early sections run mainly through well-worn territory, but it is from the 1970s, when Khalidi has experience of the events he is describing. His insights into developments within the PLO, it's relationships with Palestinians in both Lebanon and Palestine, and the role of the PFLP much more deeply engaged me in the latter part. Khalidi - whose perspective unsurprisingly is that more effort should have gone to international diplomacy earlier - drives analysis through grief and frustration in the last sections, looking at the failures of the PA, the increasingly hardline US position and the repeated assaults from Israel. But the star here is the focus on Palestinians and their dynamics. I'd be keen to see something more focused on that in the future.