Discuss: “Hundred Years’ War on Palestine”

Four-session On-Line Discussion

Past Event: Mondays May 15 and 22; June 5 and 12, 2023. The Hundred Year’s War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi.

According to a review in the Guardian, “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.”

The author wrote that his great-great-great uncle, Yusuf Diya al-Din Pash al-Khalidi, corresponded with Theodor Herzl to oppose the Zionist ideas. He was born in NYC. His father, a Saudi citizen of Palestinian origins, was born in Jerusalem. His mother is a Lebanese-American born in the United States. He is the father of playwright Ismail Khalidi and activist/attorney, Dima Khalidi.

We’ll be discussing the book in segments of two chapters each. The chapters reference six “declarations of war”:

• May 15, 2023:
  • Chapter 1: 1917 – 1939
  • Chapter 2: 1947 – 1948
• May 22:
  • Chapter 3: 1967
  • Chapter 4: 1982
• June 5:
  • Chapter 5: 1987 – 1995
  • Chapter 6: 2000 – 2014
• June 12: concluding discussion