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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

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Essay Topics

1.

In Chapter 1, Khalidi states “for the inhabitants of Palestine, whose future it ultimately decided, Balfour’s careful, calibrated prose was in effect a gun pointed directly at their heads, a declaration of war by the British Empire on the indigenous population” (25). Why does Khalidi compare the Balfour Declaration to a gun pointed at the Palestinian people?

2.

What evidence does Khalidi present to support his assertion that ethnic cleansing occurred during the Nakba? What evidence do critics use to refute this claim?

3.

What literary techniques does Khalidi use when portraying the 1967 Six-Day War?

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