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  • ISBN:
    1851685553
  • ISBN-13:
    9781851685554
  • PUB. DATE:
    September 2007
  • PUBLISHER:
    Oneworld
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Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe

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Searching for Truthby Anonymous

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Ilan Pappe has done a courageous piece of work in presenting the reality of what took place in 1948. My only negative comment was that Mr. Pappe did not include in his book people like Martin Buber who represented a different kind of Zionism. On all other accounts, however, he dares to expose the lies that have proliferated since then. I am hopeful that this kind of literature will continue to shake...

Superb account of the Zionists' expulsion of the Palestiniansby Anonymous

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Pappe, an Israeli historian and a senior lecturer at Haifa University, has written a superb account of the Israeli expulsion of the Palestinians from their land in 1948. He quotes David Ben Gurion, leader of the Zionist movement from the mid-1920 until the 1960s, who wrote in his diary in 1938, ?I am for compulsory transfer I do not see anything immoral in it.? This contradicts the Zionists? public...

I wish everyone in Israel would read this!by KeikoHP

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In this book, Ilan Pappe shows that the Zionist takeover of Palestine was the same as ethnic cleansing. The truth of this should be obvious to fair-minded and well-informed people, but it's taken until now for this book to be written. Pappe provides detailed information on each community that was cleansed, which can make the book seem a little slow, at least for someone who doesn't know most of the...


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Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

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  • Pub. Date: September 2007
  • Publisher: Oneworld
  • Sales Rank: 132,830

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In this controversial new book, a prominent Israeli historian at Haifa University revisits the formative period of the State of Israel. Decisively debunking the myth that the Palestinian population left of their own accord during the War of Independence, he offers archival evidence to demonstrate that a central plank in Israel's founding ideology was the forcible removal of the indigenous population. This book is a passionate plea to acknowledge the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 as the root cause of the ongoing Palestine-Israel conflict.

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In his latest work, renowned Israeli author and academic Pappe (A History of Modern Palestine) does not mince words, doing Jimmy Carter one better (or worse, depending on one's point of view) by accusing Israel of ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, beginning in the 1948 war for independence and continuing through the present. Focusing primarily on Plan D (Dalet, in Hebrew), conceived on March 10, 1948, Pappe demonstrates how ethnic cleansing was not a circumstance of war, but rather a deliberate goal of combat for early Israeli military units organized by David Ben-Gurion, whom Pappe labels the "architect of ethnic cleansing." The forced expulsion of 800,000 Palestinians between 1948 and 1949, Pappe argues, was part of a long-standing Zionist plan to manufacture an ethnically pure Jewish state. Framing his argument with accepted international and U.N. definitions of ethnic cleansing, Pappe follows with an excruciatingly detailed account of Israeli military involvement in the demolition and depopulation of hundreds of villages, and the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Arab inhabitants. An accessible, learned resource, this volume provides important insights into the historical antecedents of today's conflict, but its conclusions will not be easy for everyone to stomach: Pappe argues that the ethnic cleansing of Palestine continues today, and calls for the unconditional return of all Palestinian refugees and an end to the Israeli occupation. Without question, Pappe's account will provoke ire from many readers; importantly, it will spark discussion as well. (Jan.)

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