Kendra_Smith_Laughs’s Reviews > The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 > Status Update

"The Palestinians involved repeatedly relayed the PLO's desire for recognition from Washington of its efforts on behalf of US interests, but Dean was authorized only to express his government's gratitude for the provision of security to American institutions"

"As in 1947, a new international legal formula harmful to the Palestinians came via the medium of a UN resolution, and as with the Balfour declaration of 1917, the key document contains not a single mention of Palestine or the Palestinians. Security Council Resolution 242 treated the entire issue as a state-to-state matter between the Arab countries and Israel (...)"

"As in 1947, a new international legal formula harmful to the Palestinians came via the medium of a UN resolution, and as with the Balfour Declaration of 1917, the key document contains not a single mention of Palestine or the Palestinians. Security Council Resolution 242 treated the entire issue as a state-to-state matter between the Arab countries and Israel (...)"

"In the aftermath of the 1948 war, the Palestinians were virtually invisible, hardly covered in the Western media and rarely allowed to represent themselves internationally. They and their sacred cause were invoked by Arab governments, but they themselves played almost no independent role."

"Since 1917, the Palestinian national movement had been faced with the antagonistic tandem of Britain and its protégé, the Zionist project. But the yishuv had grown more and more hostile to its British patron after the passage of the 1939 White Paper."

"As the United Nations moved toward partition of Palestine, the king repeatedly met with them secretly in the hope of reaching an accord in which Jordan would incorporate the part of Palestine to be designated for its Arab majority."

"These inter-Palestinian differences, exacerbated by the rivalries between the newly independent Arab states, are described by Dr. Husayn in painful detail. As he shows, much of the pre-war polarization between partisans and opponents of the mufti, Hajj Amin al-Husayni, dating to the revolt and before, continued into the postwar era."

"These inter-Palestinian differences, exacerbated by the rivalries between the newly independent Arab states are described by Dr. Husayn in painful detail. As he shows, much of the pre-war polarization between partisans and opponents of the mufti, Hajj Amin al-Husayni, dating to the revolt and before, continued into the post-war era."

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