A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils ahead, ending his note, “in the name of God, let Palestine be left alone. ” Thus Rashid Khalidi, al-Khalidi’s great-great-nephew, begins this The Hundred Years' War on Palestine - Rashid Khalidi od authora Rashid Khalidi a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.