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interview, palestine, Rashid Khalidi, Tariq Ali - August 2, 2024

The Neck and The Sword - Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine, interviewed by Tariq Ali [NLR, May/June 2024]

[This interview was conducted for the New Left Review and is mirrored from their site. You can get a copy of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine here.] Let’s start with the present, not just in the sense of the horrors being inflicted on Palestine right now, but the present as part of Palestine’s still-active past. The brutal Anglo-Zionist repression of the great Arab Revolt of 1936–39 was followed by the Nakba of 1948, the Six-Day War in 1967, the 1982 siege of Beirut, led by Ariel Sharon, and the massacres of Sabra and Shatila, the two Intifadas, the continuous...

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