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Palestine: A Personal History Paperback – January 21, 2008

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“[Sabbagh’s] memoir offers a vital yet unfamiliar perspective on the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a heartfelt, judicious invitation to dialogue.” —Publishers Weekly

Palestinians feature regularly in news headlines, but their country is much less known. In this humane and deeply compelling book, Karl Sabbagh traces Palestine and Palestinians from their roots in the mélange of tribes, ethnic groups, and religions that have populated the region for centuries, and describes how, as a result of the interplay of global power politics, the majority of Palestinians were expelled from their home to make way for the new Jewish state of Israel. Palestine: A Personal History offers a sympathetic portrait of the country’s rich heritage as well as evidence of the long-standing harmony between Arabs (Muslim and Christian) and the small indigenous Jewish population in Palestine. Karl Sabbagh has written both a transporting narrative and a meditation on a region that remains a flashpoint of conflict—a story of how past choices and actions reverberate in the present day.

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"Carefully researched and engaging, [Sabbagh's] memoir offers a vital yet unfamiliar perspective on the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a heartfelt, judicious invitation to dialogue."

"Karl Sabbagh's Palestine: A Personal History chronicles his family's history . . . with a growing sense of despair born of personal experience and the discovery of documents that illuminate the dispossession of the Palestinians."

"Sabbagh has furnished the reader with what is needed for a rational settlement of this mutually destructive dispute."

Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Grove Press (January 21, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0802143504
ISBN-13: 978-0802143501
Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1 x 8.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 15 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #978,027 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1431 in British & Irish Dramas & Plays
- #1716 in Journalist Biographies
- #895 in Historical Middle East Biographies

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Feroz D.

nicely written.

May 19, 2017

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very informative.nicely written.

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Sabrina

Three Stars

January 3, 2016

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Couldn't get into it.

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William Podmore

Very informative study of Palestine

January 27, 2009

Format: Paperback

Karl Sabbagh, a writer and television producer, has produced a convincing refutation of the Zionists' biggest lie - that they took over `a land without a people'. As he recounts in detail, the Sabbagh family, like the vast majority of the Arab population, have lived in Palestine for more than 300 years. This fascinating book traces Palestine's history from 1900 to 1948 and examines the original injustice of the Zionists' theft of the land.

Over the last 400 years, documented evidence proves the continuing presence of Palestinian Arabs as a large majority in the territory of Palestine. 16th-century Ottoman censuses showed that Palestine had about 300,000 inhabitants, 90% of whom were Muslim Arabs.

But in the early 20th century, the British state gave crucial support to a tiny foreign political movement, Zionism, which wanted to colonise Palestine, claiming a right derived from a work of fiction. The Zionists always intended to uproot and expel the country's original inhabitants.

Yet during the First World War, the British state had also promised Palestine its independence. As the Foreign Office admitted, in a secret document, "With regard to Palestine, His Majesty's Government are committed by Sir H. McMahon's letter to the Sherif on the 24th October 1915, to its inclusion in the boundaries of Arab independence."

In spite of this promise, the British state, with the Balfour Declaration, gave away the Palestinian people's country to the Zionist movement. There is a long pro-Zionist tradition in the British ruling class, from Balfour to Brown, based presumably on the odd belief that the Zionists would serve the British ruling class's interests.

When the British state ran Palestine under the Mandate, it allowed ever-increasing Jewish immigration. After the Second World War, the Zionist movement attacked the Palestinian majority and dispossessed them.

The Zionists have maintained and extended their illegal occupation ever since, aggravating their original theft with constant aggressive wars. But of course they could never have gotten away with all this without the backing of the US and British states.

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Kitchen Magician

Propagandized “history”

June 5, 2018

Format: Paperback

The author either wittingly or ignorantly omits much key information regarding the history of “palestine” The term “palestine” derives from a Roman term, palaestina, that had been applied to Jews and their land of ancient Israel, about 2,000 years ago in the aftermath of the Jewish Bar Kokhba Revolt against Roman occupation, reflecting the ancient Jewish history and indigeneity of the land. Roman palaestina referred to the Philistines who were Greek not Arab. Romans renamed Jews’ land palaestina in an effort to erase the Jewish heritage of the land.

Later, European Christians anglicized Roman palaestina into “palestine” The British called the British Mandate “palestine” which eventuated in Israel. Thus, palestine was not founded by Arabs or so-called “palestinians” Palestine is a Western colonialist term. There is no letter p in Arabic. No Arab countries begin with p.

It’s noteworthy that there is no history of palestine in Arabic before the 20th century, This is because Arabs did not recognize any land called palestine until fairly recently, Historically, Arabs called Syria “Sham” and during Ottoman times Arabs identified as Syrian and as Arabs and Muslims. They did not identify as palestinians For Arabs, there was no country called palestine.

Interestingly, Jews were originally called “palestinians” by the British in the Mandate. My Jewish family members had “palestinian” stamped on their passports.

Only much later after Jews became Israelis did Arabs begin calling themselves “palestinians” Though, unable to write or even pronounce “palestinian” in Arabic

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S. Bennett

Puts a Personal Face on Ordinary Palestinians

August 14, 2007

Format: Hardcover

Too often, images of Palestinians in the West are dominated by suicide bombings and terrorist groups, and their cause is not presented in a way that could lead any person to sympathize with it. This book tells the story of the Palestinians you don't see on TV-the ordinary men, women, and children who were robbed of their land by an alien group whose ancestors had been gone from that land for 2000 years. Sabbagh refutes some commonly held-but very inacurate-beliefs, such as the idea that the name "Palestine" is a 20th century invention, and the idea that Palestine was uninhabited before the Israelis came-indeed, he tells the stories of the Arabs-including his own ancestors-who lived on the land for hundreds of years before Zionism was thought up. The history moves into the 20th century, relating the stories of Sabbagh's ancestors along with a history of British control of Palestine that reveals the injustice of the Zionist idea, and its proponents to be fanatical ideologues willing to use any means-even terrorism-to advance their ideas at the expense of the Palestinian population. The book culminates with the creation of Israel and the deportations conducted by the new state to rid its territory of Arabs, a tragedy described in mornfull detail by Sabbagh. Read this book-your view of the Arab-Israeli conflict will never be the same.

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Dr. S. Hassan

There was once a country called Palestine

January 30, 2009

Format: Hardcover

This is a very good account. It is also a good reflection of the Zionist movement. This is a movement that is even opposed by some well-meaning jews. In essence, it is nothing but a terrorist movement that managed to find itself a state (Israel) on the ruins and misery of another; through cunning deceipt of the world, and complicity from some western nations. This state that prides itself on being the only democracy in the region allows itself to starve and bombard women and children under the guise of protecting its citizens; and not only that, it even wants them to stop defending themselves against the transgressor and to also stop digging tunnels to fetch essentials from a neighbouring country. The fascinating thing is that the world is watching in denial and when pressed they just passively agree with the war mongers.

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