The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine
A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history.
@ymishory @anantagd @appassionato @bookstodon @palestine There is no single answer. Probably the only viable solution is a single, multi-ethnic secular state. While I would prefer all the Zionists to be expelled, this is unlikely to happen, and we will just have to wait until all the European “Israelis” leave & return to Europe/US etc. I expect many will, just as the majority of racist South Africans left after disposing of that colonial state.
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I think a key difference in Israel vs South Africa is that Israel literally thinks that land was given to them by God.
It’s something that they can’t just pack up and go to a different country for, which means the Jews have to learn to live with their Palestinian neighbors and vice versa.
But if the government is secular and doesn’t favor one religion over another, I think most of the people would fall in line with that.
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From a historical perspective, before Herzl, Jewish people in the Levant had neighbors, who were the “Palestinians” of the 19th century.
The “modern” pragmatic solution would be to return for 1967 borders.
That is why they killed #YitzhakRabin over Oslo Accords.
@kinyutaka@mstdn.social @KarunaX@mastodon.world @ymishory@tooot.im @anantagd@ieji.de @appassionato@mastodon.social @bookstodon@a.gup.pe @palestine@a.gup.pe Most Israelis are secular. Ironic that a people who don’t believe in g-d believe he gave them someone else’s land. Down here in reality, we know it was the British who exceeded their mandate and “gave” Palestine to European Zionists, not g-d.