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A review by soosoyi
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
5.0
Short information: Theodore Herlz made explicit calls for a state for the Jews, with the "sovereign right" to control immigration (he paid a visit in 1898).
"In the name of God, let Palestine be left alone."
"Instead, with the smug self-assurance so common to nineteenth-century Europeans, Herzl offered the preposterous inducement that the colonization, and ultimately the usurpation, of their land by strangers would benefit the people of that country." [This condescending attitude toward the intelligence, not to speak of the rights, of the Arab population of Palestine was serially repeated...]
"The 1917 Balfour Declaration, issued by a British cabinet and committing Britain to the creation of a national Jewish homeland, never mentioned the Palestinians, the great majority of the country's population at the time,"
"They were described in terms of what they were not, and certainly not as a nation or a people - the words "Palestinian" and "Arab" do not appear in the sixty-seven words of the declaration."
"They aspired to control their own fate."
"Thus, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine began well before the state of Israel was proclaimed on May 15, 1948."
"This is a unique colonialism that we've been subjected to where they have no use for us. The best Palestinian for them is either dead or gone." - Edward Said
"..., the five million Palestinians living under an Israeli military regime in the Occupied Territories have no rights at all, while the half million plus Israeli colonists there enjoy full rights."
"The Palestinian people, whose resistance to colonialism has involved an uphill battle, should not expect quick results. They have shown unusual patience, perseverance, and steadfastness in defending their rights, which is the main reason that their cause is still alive."
"In the name of God, let Palestine be left alone."
"Instead, with the smug self-assurance so common to nineteenth-century Europeans, Herzl offered the preposterous inducement that the colonization, and ultimately the usurpation, of their land by strangers would benefit the people of that country." [This condescending attitude toward the intelligence, not to speak of the rights, of the Arab population of Palestine was serially repeated...]
"The 1917 Balfour Declaration, issued by a British cabinet and committing Britain to the creation of a national Jewish homeland, never mentioned the Palestinians, the great majority of the country's population at the time,"
"They were described in terms of what they were not, and certainly not as a nation or a people - the words "Palestinian" and "Arab" do not appear in the sixty-seven words of the declaration."
"They aspired to control their own fate."
"Thus, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine began well before the state of Israel was proclaimed on May 15, 1948."
"This is a unique colonialism that we've been subjected to where they have no use for us. The best Palestinian for them is either dead or gone." - Edward Said
"..., the five million Palestinians living under an Israeli military regime in the Occupied Territories have no rights at all, while the half million plus Israeli colonists there enjoy full rights."
"The Palestinian people, whose resistance to colonialism has involved an uphill battle, should not expect quick results. They have shown unusual patience, perseverance, and steadfastness in defending their rights, which is the main reason that their cause is still alive."