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In part one of this article, I tried to dispel the impression that the creation of Israel was purely and primarily for persecuted Jews, arguing there were imperial and geo-strategic interests of...
It’s a lot more interesting and useful to study the different sides of a conflict, especially one as complex and intractable as the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
Khalidi also interpolates the experiences and archives of his family into the historical account. The Khalidi family was a prominent, politically active, Palestinian family, who established a library and archive in the Old City of Jerusalem in 1900. They were directly involved in the Palestinian resistance throughout the period discussed in the book. Khalidi shows how the Palestine-Israel war was never one between two equal national movements, but instead a settler-colonialist project pushed by the European-based Zionist movement. Khalidi’s great-great-great uncle Yusuf Diya al-Din Pasha al...
'Palestine situation more difficult after Israel-Arab rapprochement' Sat, Mar 13 2021 11:54:42 AM New Delhi, Mar 13 (IANS): The already "difficult" Palestinian movement has been made "more difficult" with four Arab states normalising relations with Israel and India can play an important role "to right the imbalanced situation between Israel and the Palestinians", says Palestinian American historian Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and Director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. "The ...