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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 | Rashid Khalidi Banned Books Eighth grader Drew Ellis isIn 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 sweeping history, the first