Professor Rashid Khalidi of Columbia University joined MEMO for a live conversation on Wednesday to discuss what the Joe Biden administration holds for Palestine and to review the past four years under Donald Trump. The discussion opened with the Palestinian American historian fielding questions about his most recent book, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine, which was adjudged to be the Best Academic book at the 2020 Palestine Book Awards. The book divides the Palestinian struggle for statehood into six stages, which Rashid describes as six "declarations of war". Asked if he would have included the four years of the Trump administration as a seventh if he was writing the book now, he said that the Trump era could certainly be considered as such. "Like earlier declarations of war sponsored by great powers such as the US, Britain and others, Trump's peace plan envisaged a series of measures that were designed entirely to further the Israeli colonial project and to prevent Palestinian self-determination," he explained. The six decisive periods in the takeover of Palestine and the supplanting of its population since the 1917 Balfour Declaration were designed to further Zionist objectives in terms of seizing Palestine and to block Palestinian rights. The Trump era, he added, shared that characteristic.