All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 [Hardcover]

Walid Khalidi (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1992 | ISBN-10: 0887282245 | ISBN-13: 978-0887282249

This authoritative reference work describes in detail the more than 400 Palestinian villages destroyed or depopulated during the 1948 war. The body of the text is devoted to the villages themselves: each village entry comprises statistical data and several narrative sections. Field research by former residents and guides is used to pinpoint the precise location of village sites. A wide variety of Arab and Western sources is used to summarize village history before 1948 and to synthesize information about its topography, architecture, institutions and economic activity. Israeli and Arab accounts focus on the military operations that led to the conquest of the village. Entries also contain a description of the current status of the site, including post-1948 Israeli settlements established on confiscated village lands. Several hundred photographs, a number of informative maps and five appendices enhance the text prepared by more than thirty participants over a period of nearly six years.

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"...a very significant encyclopedic work...the book represents an indispensable basic research tool...a dazzling achievement..." -- Benny Morris, Ha'Aretz

...A very significant encyclopedic work...the book represent an indispensable basic research tool...a dazzling achievement. -- Benny Morris, Ha'Aretz

From the Publisher

Walid Khalidi was born in Jerusalem and is a graduate of the Universities of London and Oxford. He is a distinguished historian and widely recognized authority on Palestine. Professor Khalidi is a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard's Center for Middles Eastern Studies, and the author of numerous books and articles in Arabic and English.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 636 pages
• Publisher: Inst for Palestine Studies (November 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0887282245
• ISBN-13: 978-0887282249
• Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 9 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,671,837 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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34 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT historically sound book, January 24, 2003

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This review is from: All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 (Hardcover)

Despite some of the negative reviews that were written by a few ignorant so-called historians, this book is actually extremely accurate. Whomever you may be, whatever you believe, or whatever side you are on, what happened happend and the facts are there and Mr. Khalidi has documented them well. Israel was formed on land that does not belong to it and this book showed what they did to accomplish that-destroy Palestinian villages. The content of this book and the history behind this conflict is best described by a movie made by Israelis and shown at the San Francisco Jewish film festival calle AL-NAKBA.

55 of 72 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exposes the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine in 1948, July 14, 2003

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Giant Panda (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 (Hardcover)

There is a very good reason why this book received so many 1-star reviews [...]: because it exposes the truth that most Israelis and pro-Zionists wish to hide, forever.

This is history:

step 1: pre-1948 Zionist claim: "there are no people in Palestine"

step 2: 1948 Zionists deliberately expelled 800,000 Palestinians from their homeland

step 3: 1949-1952: Israel systematically destroyed every remnant of 418 Palestinian villages that were depopulated in 1948, in order to erase the evidence.

This monumental book finally presents the evidence, drawn from over 20 sources (including Zionist ones), organized district by district, village by village. It's the evidence Israeli leaders would have hoped been buried forever, so they would never have to face War Crimes Tribunals.

So now their strategy is to post bad reviews for this book here so as to prevent you, potential reader, from seeing that evidence for yourself. Don't close your eyes: see it for yourself, then THINK!

89 of 119 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Palestinian from Abu Dhabi, December 17, 2000

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Lina (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 (Hardcover)

With respect to all the other reviewers of this book. Yes: war is war and people should expect to get hurt. Yes: Both sides in the Israeli-Palestinian stand-off have suffered from acts of terrorism and it serves no purpose to compare wounds, the dead are dead, we don't need any more. However, this book is a very important research tool for one reason. Unlike the terrorist acts that have been committed by both sides in this pathetic tragedy. This book lists actions that were carried out by the Israeli GOVERNMENT, and which they do not deny. War is war, we expect to hear about violence and inhumanity. This is systematic, the book chronicles a policy that began during a war and is still occurring today despite the Oslo accord and numerous agreements entered into by the Israeli GOVERNMENT. Terrorism and broken treaties are to be expected from people who have been raised with an agenda of hate; wether they be the perrennially armed settlers or the fanatical terrorist groups. What should NOT be considered normal is when these acts are committed by a government, acknowledged and excused. Again I repeat, the Israeli government does NOT deny that these actions were taken. In addition, no one can deny the since the Oslo accord- during "peace" time, Israeli settlements in PALESTINIAN areas have increased by over 50%. Don't believe me if u don't want to, the world is full of libraries, go out and do some research. Finally, with regards to the book, it is a good research tool, containing many statistics and accurate descriptions of places, however, that is all it contains. It is far more useful as an aid when reading accounts ar articles as it can help verify information. however, it is not a history of the missing Palestinian villages and should not be read as such.