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Descolonizando la mente palestina
«Estoy de pie sobre las ruinas de una casa en la ciudad de Gaza, oteando el horizonte». Estas son las palabras iniciales de este libro, finalizado mediante mensajes de voz mientras Gaza, donde vive el autor, está siendo aniquilada.
Descolonizar la mente palestina no trata del último ataque israelí sobre Gaza. Es una crítica aguda a los Acuerdos de Oslo, a los territorios creados por el imperialismo en nombre de la solución de los dos Estados. También es un texto, escrito a quemarropa, sobre la folklorización de la lucha y la emancipación palestinas, que se han convertido en una conducta habitual por parte de las organizaciones históricas que luchan por la liberación de Palestina.
Haidar Eid se basa en la obra de Edward Said, a quien los palestinos aprecian por su implacable crítica de su situación, para hacer un llamamiento por un cambio de conciencia. Vislumbra, desde las ruinas de Gaza, un nuevo período de amenaza sin precedentes sobre la cultura, la identidad y el futuro del pueblo palestino.
Descolonizar la mente palestina no trata del último ataque israelí sobre Gaza. Es una crítica aguda a los Acuerdos de Oslo, a los territorios creados por el imperialismo en nombre de la solución de los dos Estados. También es un texto, escrito a quemarropa, sobre la folklorización de la lucha y la emancipación palestinas, que se han convertido en una conducta habitual por parte de las organizaciones históricas que luchan por la liberación de Palestina.
Haidar Eid se basa en la obra de Edward Said, a quien los palestinos aprecian por su implacable crítica de su situación, para hacer un llamamiento por un cambio de conciencia. Vislumbra, desde las ruinas de Gaza, un nuevo período de amenaza sin precedentes sobre la cultura, la identidad y el futuro del pueblo palestino.
152 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2024
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Haidar Eid
4 books10 followersHaidar Eid is an acclaimed critic and Associate prof. of Cultural Studies and Literature at Gaza's al-Aqsa University in Palestine. He has written widely on the Arab-Israeli conflict. He is a policy adviser with Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network. He is also a member of PACBI.
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February 17, 2025
Read Palestine Week
Growing up in the US, I had a very Israel-centric upbringing. This is characterized by my Western education and surroundings, even though I knew more Palestinians than Israelis growing up.
In the midst of this war and genocide that has been going on long before I was born, I am seeking to learn the truth. Earlier this year, I read THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR ON PALESTINE and THE WAY TO SPRING. I highly recommend both.
In this short narrative, we learn more about the current state of Palestine. Apartheid is always wrong. So is genocide. So too, I gather, are the Oslo Accords. They are mentioned frequently here, and clearly aren't being followed.
How long will we stand by? Will we let what is happening to Palestine happen to Lebanon? Who is next? Settler colonialism must not prevail.
📱 Thank you to NetGalley and Between the Lines
Growing up in the US, I had a very Israel-centric upbringing. This is characterized by my Western education and surroundings, even though I knew more Palestinians than Israelis growing up.
In the midst of this war and genocide that has been going on long before I was born, I am seeking to learn the truth. Earlier this year, I read THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR ON PALESTINE and THE WAY TO SPRING. I highly recommend both.
In this short narrative, we learn more about the current state of Palestine. Apartheid is always wrong. So is genocide. So too, I gather, are the Oslo Accords. They are mentioned frequently here, and clearly aren't being followed.
How long will we stand by? Will we let what is happening to Palestine happen to Lebanon? Who is next? Settler colonialism must not prevail.
📱 Thank you to NetGalley and Between the Lines
May 2, 2025
"For Zionism's continued presence in Palestine, the 'Other' must be assimilated and enslaved without becoming conscious of the enslavement. Hence the granting of 'semi-autonomous' rule over the most crowded Palestinian cities, and hence the logic driving the Oslo Accords."
Slightly more academically inclined than I'm used to, but despite that, you can still feel the rage and desperation in Dr. Eid's words as he criticizes how Western-led peace processes, particularly the Oslo Accords, do not favor Palestinian self-determination and were never meant to do so.
"Hamas failed to see that, in essence, what Obama was offering was not different than what George W. Bush and, before him, Bill Clinton offered. All US presidents have made it crystal clear that the US-Israel ties are 'unbreakable."
I really liked how he built on Edward Said's work, mentioning that, "For Said, coexistence in Palestine-Israel is unachievable at the present moment because Israel is not the state of all its citizens, but rather the state of Jews entitled to the 'entire land of Israel' and because there has been no serious attempt on the Israeli side to acknowledge the right of the 'Other' to exist as an equal partner."
Dr. Eid also explains how the two-state solution isn't a viable option for a free Palestine. "...the two-state solution in principle does not offer the Palestinian people their basic rights under international law-equality and right of return. A Bantustan-like solution is a racist solution par excellence."
This short book ends with the author stating that a one-state solution, based on secular democracy and drawn along the lines of historical Palestine, is the way forward for both Palestinians and Jews. Is this too much to hope for? Only time will tell.
Thank you to Between the Lines and NetGalley for this arc.
May 5, 2025
A MUST READ FOR EVERYONE!
5 stars for a book that is both depressing and illuminating. i finished it in one sitting.
once a person starts reading about the Palestine conflict, they can never un-see Israel and USA's stance on this issue. It is mind boggling how this matter has been mishandled, misrepresented and ignored for more than a century now. And one can never go back to seeing Jews as only victims of another mind-boggling genocide. Truly a heart-wrenching and deeply insightful book.
ALSO-
education, literacy, and access to history are privileges. please remember to utilize them.
as the world falls apart, the least we can do is be cognizant of politics and listen to survivors' stories.
thank you Literary Press Group of Canada for giving me access to this before it comes out.
5 stars for a book that is both depressing and illuminating. i finished it in one sitting.
once a person starts reading about the Palestine conflict, they can never un-see Israel and USA's stance on this issue. It is mind boggling how this matter has been mishandled, misrepresented and ignored for more than a century now. And one can never go back to seeing Jews as only victims of another mind-boggling genocide. Truly a heart-wrenching and deeply insightful book.
ALSO-
education, literacy, and access to history are privileges. please remember to utilize them.
as the world falls apart, the least we can do is be cognizant of politics and listen to survivors' stories.
thank you Literary Press Group of Canada for giving me access to this before it comes out.
November 20, 2025
MOLT NECESSARI!!!!
January 18, 2024
Haidar Eid's political analysis - especially when discussing Palestine in relation to South Africa - is always enlightening. This very timely - and quite recent - volume of essays explores various aspects of these two different apartheid systems. His time doing his PhD in Johannesburg gives him a kind of insight that others lack. I also really like the writings on the legacy - and prescience - of Edward Said in this collection. Perhaps the best contributions Eid makes in this book is the discussion of the need to De-Osloize Palestine because of the Osloization and NGOification of Palestine as a consequence of Oslo. It's a very important book for anyone looking for a way forward that centers the liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian people.
August 24, 2025
First, one-state is a stupid fairytale and there is too much hate. Have explained in another book I reviewed why you can’t compare the situation and forming 1 state at all with what happened in SA, yet these misguided people think they can. Most of the book is just full of revolutionary screeching and nonsense that isn’t going to help anyone at the moment.
Honestly the only good thing that could happen that might change this mess is if Israel’s public somehow elect a wise, left-wing leader and they find someone on the Palestinian side to negotiate with, and somehow Jewish extremists don’t assassinate whoever the leader is like last time and someone no Palestinian terrorist attacks happen that make Israelis elect barbaric leaders and ministers like the ones who are in charge now.
This book so not worth anything and totally unworkable stupid vision anyway. We live in a realist world, not this fairytale nonsense book.
Honestly the only good thing that could happen that might change this mess is if Israel’s public somehow elect a wise, left-wing leader and they find someone on the Palestinian side to negotiate with, and somehow Jewish extremists don’t assassinate whoever the leader is like last time and someone no Palestinian terrorist attacks happen that make Israelis elect barbaric leaders and ministers like the ones who are in charge now.
This book so not worth anything and totally unworkable stupid vision anyway. We live in a realist world, not this fairytale nonsense book.
July 12, 2025
Me pregunto cómo sería este libro si Haidar Eid lo hubiese terminado a fecha de hoy y teniendo en cuenta el actual estado de descomposición humanitaria que vivimos.
May 23, 2024
This urgent book from Gaza calls for a consciousness change in a new period of unprecedented pressure on Palestinian culture, identity and future. If you're interested in or want to be aware about Palestine's historic-political contexualization, this book is for you.
March 17, 2025
Se agradece en tiempos de genocidio y barbarie en Gaza un análisis histórico y decolonial como el planteado por Haidar Eid en este volumen.
La 'desosloización' de la mente palestina, que ha adoptado una serie de marcos propios del nacionalismo y la derecha, es necesaria para plantear una solución justa para la 'cuestión palestina'. El primer paso es una impugnación de los Acuerdos de Oslo, unos acuerdos que solo supusieron un beneficio para el estado sionista, que dotó de 'patrias negras' o bantustanes al estilo sudafricano al pueblo palestino. Es necesario abstenerse de participar en unas instituciones confeccionadas por Israel para alienar al pueblo palestino, mientras perpetra un genocidio contra este en Cisjordania y Gaza.
La oenegización de los partidos políticos palestinos, que forman parte de una red clientelar en la que occidente parte y reparte en pos del lavado de sus conciencias y de la caridad cristiana, es un reflejo de esta osloización. La necesidad de crear una fuerza política fuera del sistema de la Autoridad Palestina, laica y socialista, que rechace la solución de dos estados y busque la creación de un estado laico y multiénico desde el río hasta el mar. El autor se posiciona de forma valiente a favor de la solución de un estado que integre a los tres componentes irrenunciables del pueblo palestino; la población de Gaza y Cisjordania, los refugiados y los palestinos residentes en Israel.
El hilo conductor de la obra podríamos resumirlo en dos grandes objetivos del autor; construir una analogía con el Apartheid sudafricano, aprendiendo de la lucha del CNA contra el Apartheid, y por otro lado recuperar el pensamiento de Edward Said como brújula intelectual y teórica para el movimiento de liberación de Palestina.
La 'desosloización' de la mente palestina, que ha adoptado una serie de marcos propios del nacionalismo y la derecha, es necesaria para plantear una solución justa para la 'cuestión palestina'. El primer paso es una impugnación de los Acuerdos de Oslo, unos acuerdos que solo supusieron un beneficio para el estado sionista, que dotó de 'patrias negras' o bantustanes al estilo sudafricano al pueblo palestino. Es necesario abstenerse de participar en unas instituciones confeccionadas por Israel para alienar al pueblo palestino, mientras perpetra un genocidio contra este en Cisjordania y Gaza.
La oenegización de los partidos políticos palestinos, que forman parte de una red clientelar en la que occidente parte y reparte en pos del lavado de sus conciencias y de la caridad cristiana, es un reflejo de esta osloización. La necesidad de crear una fuerza política fuera del sistema de la Autoridad Palestina, laica y socialista, que rechace la solución de dos estados y busque la creación de un estado laico y multiénico desde el río hasta el mar. El autor se posiciona de forma valiente a favor de la solución de un estado que integre a los tres componentes irrenunciables del pueblo palestino; la población de Gaza y Cisjordania, los refugiados y los palestinos residentes en Israel.
El hilo conductor de la obra podríamos resumirlo en dos grandes objetivos del autor; construir una analogía con el Apartheid sudafricano, aprendiendo de la lucha del CNA contra el Apartheid, y por otro lado recuperar el pensamiento de Edward Said como brújula intelectual y teórica para el movimiento de liberación de Palestina.
February 17, 2025
Dr. Eid writes about the failures of the 1990's Oslo Accords (Oslo surrender) and offers readers a postmodern critique of the subsequent deals and agreements that have failed to address the basic rights and needs of Palestinians. His analysis draws on the work of Edward Said (as well as other important scholars) and makes critical comparisons between apartheid South Africa and occupied Palestine. He establishes the Palestinian cause as an anti-colonial struggle and is a strong proponent of the 'One State Solution'. Additionally, he argues that we are at a turning point, a moment marked by the "de-Osloizing' of Palestine. For Eid, Gaza is at the center of this process—Palestinians are no longer striving toward independence, they are demanding liberation.
Overall, this collection of essays offers important insights on the question of Palestine, particularly for those who want to learn more about the legacies of the Oslo Accords.
Thank you to NetGalley, Literary Press Group of Canada, Between the Lines, and Haidar Eid for the advanced readers copy!
Overall, this collection of essays offers important insights on the question of Palestine, particularly for those who want to learn more about the legacies of the Oslo Accords.
Thank you to NetGalley, Literary Press Group of Canada, Between the Lines, and Haidar Eid for the advanced readers copy!
January 12, 2025
Un libro muy interesante para aprender un poco más sobre todo el conflicto. Aún así, me esperaba otro enfoque para el libro, el cual he visto como una retahíla de hechos pero sin mucha conexión entre ellos. Además, lo he encontrado un poco repetitivo por ocasiones.
January 26, 2025
"Cualquiera puede preguntarse qué significa ser «neutral» en una cuestión de justicia tan clara. Hace solo unas décadas, ¿quién se habría atrevido a ser «neutral» sobre el fin del apartheid en Sudáfrica?."
October 9, 2025
Las ideas políticas y la visión del panorama de la resistencia palestina que expone son más complejas de a lo que nos acostumbran.
Que el libro esté terminado mientras el autor huía de los bombardeos añade más merito si cabe.
Que el libro esté terminado mientras el autor huía de los bombardeos añade más merito si cabe.
November 11, 2024
Escrito desde la Gaza asediada, el autor reivindica un único estado laico y democrático en Palestina y critica duramente los Acuerdos de Oslo y la solución de los dos Estados.
April 30, 2025
Excellent. Honest. We should all be on the right side of history.
August 8, 2025
A small but a powerful and mighty book.
May 19, 2024
Un breve libro de de Haidar Eid para entender que no debemos acepta el marco discursivo de la paz salomónica de la mentira de los Dos Estados. Acabo de escribir con audios de voz.
February 9, 2025
An informative read on the realities facing Palestinians, with interwoven clear political analysis and heartbreaking prose.
November 26, 2024
an urgent and concise narrative.
December 26, 2025
Si quieres tener una visión general de la historia de Palestina y realmente de qué trata cuando se refieren a la "Solución de dos Estados" muy recomendado. Te da una visión global y está escrito antes de este horror, estremece bastante ver cómo era totalmente predecible y como yo, y creo que mucha gente, no éramos conscientes de lo que estaba pasando hace unos años.
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