Michael Holmes is a freelance journalist and founder of Global Apartheid, a project that documents the largest mass killings in modern history.
Rashid Khalidi is a Palestinian-American historian of the Middle East at Columbia University in New York City. He has worked as an advisor to Palestinian negotiators in the 1990s in Madrid and Washington. He has written many books on the Middle East, including the “Hundred Years’ War on Palestine”, which offers a fact-filled history of the Israel-Palestine conflict from 1917 to 2017. The gripping book is a hard hitting critique of Israel’s many wars against the Palestinian people and the ongoing colonization of Palestine. It nevertheless offers a balanced, nuanced view of the conflict. Khalidi has woven fascinating personal stories of several generations of the Khalidi family into the narrative. He appeals to his fellow Arabs to recognize the great importance of the Holocaust and the state of Israel to the Jewish people. In this interview he explains the latest escalation of the conflict, its deep historical roots, the role of the West and Israel’s central propaganda myths.
Q: Mr. Khalidi, how are you feeling these days?
A: I’m feeling great distress. I have family in Gaza and other parts of Palestine. I have many students and friends in Palestine and Israel. I’m feeling very distressed, especially at the enormous loss of civilian life in Gaza that’s ongoing right now.
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