Why Israel’s Political Crisis Remains Unresolved
Benjamin Netanyahu is stuck between compromise and the right-wing base he depends on.
April 8, 2020
Rashid Khalidi’s New History of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict Opts for Lies and Distortions over Dispassionate Examination
“Another somewhat turgid recitation of the traditional Palestinian narrative.”
After several years as an adviser and spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Rashid Khalidi took up a professorship of history at the University of Chicago, and later moved to Columbia, where he succeeded Edward Said. In some of his earlier works, writes Benny Morris, Khalidi showed an ability to express “glimmerings” of criticism of the Palestinian national movement. But no sign of reflection or scholarly detachment can be found in his newest book, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance:
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The Tragedy of Israeli Arab Politics
The Joint List has no place governing a state it wishes to destroy.
Rashid Khalidi’s New History of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict Opts for Lies and Distortions over Dispassionate Examination
“Another somewhat turgid recitation of the traditional Palestinian narrative.”
When Is It Time for the Jews to Leave?
A new book explores the Diaspora’s perennial question.
An Apocryphal Book Highlights the Connection between the Binding of Isaac and the Exodus
Satan at the seder.