Comment by teleforce
1 year ago
Those who want to know the proper history and context of the current conflict, you really owe it to yourself to read this well researched book by Prof Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine [1]. In his latest book he even mentioned Israel - Palestinian latest major war (fifth war in chronological order) in the form of many years of blockade on the people of Gaza. The fact that this book was published several years (2017) before the event happened kind of foretelling that now we have an on-going all out war between one of mightiest army of the modern world against people without a country and no official army to its defense.
[1] The Hundred Years' War on Palestine (2017):
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781627798556/thehundredyears...
And a recent interview on the same author: https://www.democracynow.org/2023/12/20/this_is_a_colonial_w...
> one of mightiest army of the modern world
Technologically advanced, sure. Mighty? They have a pretty small population compared to most countries in Asia.
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Imagine trying to extend and justify every land conflict way further before the Roman Empire, hence the Italian can claim back their ruling over most of England, and the Moroccan over most of Spain.
The Israel situation is unusual in that the jews came from there, got dispersed a couple of thousand years ago, never really had a homeland elsewhere and then some of them decided to come back. There's not much else like that. It's not like the Italians were driven from Italy and have waited centuries to return.
Are you literally judging a book by its title? I don't think dismissing books out of hand without actually engaging with anything they say, but rather by engaging with imagined arguments based on their titles, is not a good way of arriving at knowledge and truth.
Huh, bemusing to note this is, with a VERY wide brush, Rome v Parthia all over again.
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