The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 opens Goodreads in a new tab

Drawing on a trove of archival materials and family papers, Rashid Khalidi upends accepted interpretations of the conflict over Palestine. He traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel, but backed by Britain and the United States. Episodes covered include the 1917 Balfour Declaration, the destruction of Palestine in 1948, the 1982 invasion of Lebanon and the peace process, combining rigorous history with personal family stories.