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The Israel/Palestine Question: A Reader (Rewriting Histories)

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I strongly recommend this book for all who approach life with open mind and the heart of a student. I suspect the "Shalom Freedom" commentator does not fall under that category.

There is an old Middle-Eastern saying: "One can learn a lot about a person by looking at his enemies." If Ilan Pappe's work is attacked because it takes a far more nuanced view of the bloody conflict between Palestinians and Israel, then that reason by itself warrants the study of its content. After reading this book, I wonder if some Israelies would still be so dismissive of political equality for Palestinians if it was the Palestinians who had the guns and the military might that Israel enjoys today. Please read this book even if you have already made up your mind about what you think it proposes.

This book consists of a collection of works (articles) written by Palestinian authors regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It is a historiographical work and introduces works that have been written regarding the conflict since 1948. It adds incite into various issues that are recently being brought to light regarding the conflict and issues that have been previously explored. This scholarly edition adds to the ever growing understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since 1948.

The ultimate extremist. The amazing part is that 'fredom of speech' is so strongly valued in Israel that this man, who has stated his goal is to end Israel as a nation, is a tenured professor at an Israeli university and currently collects a full pension after taking a post-retirement job in England. Salary double-dipping.

Anyway, if you like Noam Chomsky you will also enjoy Pappe.

The editor of this volume Ilan Pappe has devoted his academic career to deligitimizing the state in which he lives and works. He has slandered Israel at every possible opportunity, always denying and covering up the basic truth that the source of the conflict between Israelis and Arabs has always been the refusal of the Arabs to live in peace with a Jewish state, even in a small part of the Holy Land. Pappe ignores the daily propaganda of the Palestinians, the hatefilled rhetoric that has accompanied the conflict from its outset. Even more importantly
all his retellings ignore the part the Palestinians, and the Arab states have played in initiating aggression against Israel.
Pappe is a low- grade propagandist and Benedict Arnold.
Who reads him reads misinformation only.