For more than seven decades, Filistine been subjected to a never-ending barrage of suffering as the occupying “State of Izrel” made fervent attacks and repeated incursions into the region. Numerous events since 1948, has driven us to respond to the evil and injustice of the apartheid occupation.
Recently we are bearing witnessing “a second Nakba”, as another ethnic cleansing unfolds as millions are ordered to either evacuate (which is impossible) or die.
The following books listed below (in no particular order) are meant to help our Mulsim responsibility of AT LEAST staying informed and educated about the religious and historical significance of Filistine and the ongoing oppression.
NEVER FORGIVE NOR FORGET.
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History of Filistine: A Methodical Study of the Filistine Struggle by Dr Mohsen Mohammed Solih
A comprehensive study of the issue of Filistine. It is divided into seven chapters that cover land, people, history and conflicts. It exposes the conflict between the Filistine and the Arabs on one side and the Izrelis on the other. The study is informative and documented, and, as far as possible, written in a simple academic language to fit readers of different concerns.
The Hundred Years' War on Filistine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance by Rashid Khalidi
The twentieth century for Filistine and the Filistine has been a century of denial: denial of statehood, denial of nationhood and denial of history. The Hundred Years War on Palestine is Rashid Khalidi’s powerful response. Drawing on his family archives, he reclaims the fundamental right of any people: to narrate their history on their own terms.
Beginning in the final days of the Ottoman Empire, Khalidi reveals nascent Filistinian nationalism and the broad recognition by the early Zionists of the colonial nature of their project. These ideas and their echoes defend Nakba – the Filistinian term for the establishment of the state of Izrel – the cession of the West Bank and Gaza to Jordan and Egypt, the Six Day War and the occupation. Moving through these critical moments, Khalidi interweaves the voices of journalists, poets and resistance leaders with his own accounts as a child of a UN official and a resident of Beirut during the 1982 seige. The result is a profoundly moving account of a hundred-year-long war of occupation, dispossession and colonisation.
The Ethnic Cleansing of Filistine by Ilan Pappe
Renowned Izreli historian, Ilan Pappe’s groundbreaking book revisits the formation of the State of Izrel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Filistinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint.
Denied for almost six decades, had it happened today it could only have been called “ethnic cleansing”. Decisively debunking the myth that the Filistinian population left of their own accord in the course of this war, Ilan Pappe offers impressive archival evidence to demonstrate that, from its very inception, a central plank in Israel’s founding ideology was the forcible removal of the indigenous population.
Filistine: A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha
This rich and magisterial work traces Filistine’s millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history.
Starting with the earliest references in Egyptian and Assyrian texts, Nur Masalha explores how Filistine and its Filistinian identity have evolved over thousands of years, from the Bronze Age to the present day. Drawing on a rich body of sources and the latest archaeological evidence, Masalha shows how Filistine’s multicultural past has been distorted and mythologised by Biblical lore and the Izrel–Palestinian conflict.
In the process, Masalha reveals that the concept of Filistine, contrary to accepted belief, is not a modern invention or one constructed in opposition to Israel, but rooted firmly in ancient past. Filistine represents the authoritative account of the country’s history.
Al-Aqsa Mosque - Al-Haram Ash-Sharif
Using a wealth of library sources as well as undertaking field research, PASSIA’s team has made all efforts to provide an informative guide for Al-Aqsa Mosque and the monuments it encompasses and to counter the continuous attempts to falsify historical and religious facts about them. This brochure will guide you through all those landmarks, including mosques, minarets, domes, arched gates, schools, corridors, gates, pulpits, platforms, water sources, the Islamic Museum, and Al-Buraq Wall.
The Question of Palestine by Edward W. Said
This original and deeply provocative book was the first to make Filistine the subject of a serious debate–one that remains as critical as ever. With the rigorous scholarship he brought to his influential Orientalism and an exile’s passion (he is Filistinianian by birth), Edward W. Said traces the fatal collision between two peoples in the Middle East and its repercussions in the lives of both the occupier and the occupied–as well as in the conscience of the West.
well said!
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