Palestine History Of A Lost Nation Karl Sabbagh by Karl Sabbagh 9781555848743, 1555848745 instant download after payment.

[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. 
This book traces the author's experiences as the London-raised son of a Palestinian father and English mother, in a historical account that traces his efforts to understand the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In this book I propose to show that the foundation of the State of Israel perpetrated an enormous injustice against the Palestinians. This injustice was achieved by promulgating a series of institutionalized lies to the rest of the world–a process that continues today. There was a slick slogan–‘A land without people for people without a land’-invented by the Zionist Israel Zangwill, which has the power to stick in people’s minds, and serves the useful purpose of implanting the false impression that Palestine was uninhabited when Jews decided to agitate for it to become their state. As Alexis de Toqueville said: ‘It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.’ Golda Meir, an Israeli Prime Minister, said in 1970: ‘There is no such thing as a Palestinian people.’