Der Hundertjährige Krieg in Palästina

The mayor of Jerusalem, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, wrote a letter to Theodor Herzl in 1899, worried about the demand for a Jewish homeland in Palestine: the country had an indigenous population that would not accept their expulsion. He concluded with the words: "In God's name, leave Palestine in peace." This is how Rashid Khalidi, al-Khalidi's great-great-nephew, begins this overall account of the conflict from a Palestinian perspective.Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said's successor at Columbia University and one of the leading historians of the Middle East, draws on a wealth of untapped archive material. He traces the history of a hundred-year colonial war against the Palestinians and also puts his finger on the mistakes of the Palestinian leadership.