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 In 1899Yusuf Diya al-Khalidimayor of Jerusalemalarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestinewrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils aheadending his noteΓÇ£in the name of Godlet Palestine be left alone.ΓÇ¥ Thus Rashid Khalidial-KhalidiΓÇÖs great-great-nephewbegins this sweeping historythe first general account of the conflict told from an explicitly Palestinian perspective. Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family membersΓÇömayorsjudgesscholarsdiplomatsand journalistsΓÇöThe Hundred Years’ War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations of the conflictwhich tendat bestto describe a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same territory. InsteadKhalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinianswaged first by the Zionist movement and then Israelbut backed by Britain and the United Statesthe great powers of the age. He highlights the key episodes in this colonial campaignfrom the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the destruction of Palestine in 1948from IsraelΓÇÖs 1982 invasion of Lebanon to the endless and futile peace process. Originalauthoritativeand importantThe Hundred Years’ War on Palestine is not a chronicle of victimizationnor does it whitewash the mistakes of Palestinian leaders or deny the emergence of national movements on both sides. In reevaluating the forces arrayed against the Palestiniansit offers an illuminating new view of a conflict that continues to this day.