Rashid Khalidi
Born
in New York, NY, The United States
November 18, 1948
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“a colonial war waged against the indigenous population, by a variety of parties, to force them to relinquish their homeland to another people against their will.”
― The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
― The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
“Significantly, the overwhelming Arab majority of the population (around 94 percent at that time) went unmentioned by Balfour, except in a backhanded way as the “existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.” They were described in terms of what they were not, and certainly not as a nation or a people—the words “Palestinian” and “Arab” do not appear in the sixty-seven words of the declaration. This overwhelming majority of the population was promised only “civil and religious rights,” not political or national rights. By way of contrast, Balfour ascribed national rights to what he called “the Jewish people,” who in 1917 were a tiny minority—6 percent—of the country’s inhabitants.”
― The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
― The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
“The Zionists’ colonial enterprise, aimed at taking over the country, necessarily had to produce resistance. “If you wish to colonize a land in which people are already living,” Jabotinsky wrote in 1925, “you must find a garrison for the land, or find a benefactor who will provide a garrison on your behalf.… Zionism is a colonizing venture and, therefore, it stands or falls on the question of armed forces.”81 At least initially, only the armed forces provided by Britain could overcome the natural resistance of those being colonized.”
― The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
― The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
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