The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé

The Escalation of the Cleansing Operations: June-September 1948Ĩ. The Phony War and the Real War over Palestine: May 1948ħ. The Blueprint for Ethnic Cleansing: Plan DaletĦ. Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. Partition and Destruction: UN Resolution 181 and its Impactĥ. The Drive for an Exclusively Jewish Stateģ. Indispensable for anyone interested in the current crisis in the Middle East.Ģ. Decisively debunking the myth that the Palestinian 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. Between 19, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint.ĭenied for almost six decades, had it happened today it could only have been called 'ethnic cleansing'. Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking book revisits the formation of the State of Israel. Yet there is more to it than that.This major book by the renowned Israeli historian, unveils the hidden and systematic ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in 1948, and its relevance to resolving the conflict. Poor man! What a strain it must be to belong to a nation whose members are so overwhelmingly unbearable that he longs for them to be overpowered by others. The reader’s initial reaction must be one of pity. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Ilan Pappe Oneworld Publications, History - 336 pages 5 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content. This, of course, is exactly the inflexible position taken by Hamas and the PLO. The only possible alternative lies in the immediate return of every Palestinian to his original home, and that will mean the end of the state whose existence so offends Pappe. One day, he supposes, the Israelis may well consummate their original crime with something even worse. Everything Israeli is ugly, everything Palestinian is beautiful.

Houses are ‘monstrous villas and palaces for rich American Jews’. Forests have been planted only to cover up the past. To him, Israeli politicians and soldiers, one and all, are so many murderers. He reserves the Palestinian term of Nakba, meaning catastrophe, for describing what to Israelis is their war of independence of 1948. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Kindle Edition by Ilan Pappe (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 875 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition £6.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook £0. In his view, expressed with obsession and a degree of paranoia, Jewish nationalism, that is to say Zionism, has been from its outset a deliberate tool for dispossessing the Palestinians and therefore it is to be condemned root and branch. Ilan Pappe is an Israeli academic who has made his name by hating Israel and everything it stands for.

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé