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~ Ilan Pappe (Author)
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Arabs and Jews describe the first Arab-Israeli war of 1948 in completely different ways. Among Arabs, and especially Palestinians, the events of that year are known as the "nakba" - the catastrophe, the trauma, the disaster. For Jews, and in particular for Israelis, their victory in the war of 1948 is a veritable miracle in which, against tremendous odds and through heroic military effort, the Jewish community succeeded in thwarting attempts by the Arab states to destroy it.

This book integrates new archival material with the findings of recent scholarship to present the reader with a comprehensive and general history of the origins and consequences of the 1948 war. The author shows, in sharp contrast to the recollections and myths of both sides, that the military events of 1948 were not decisive. The victory of the Zionist organization and the fate of the Palestinians was determined by politicians on both sides - in the discussions and decisions of the United Nations in 1947-8 and in the Arab League - long before a shot had been fired. The author argues that Israel's failure to take advantage of the genuine opportunity for peace with the Arabs at the UN-sponsored Lausanne Conference in 1949 resulted in the prolonged and tragic conflict between Israel and the Arab states still very much alive today.

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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: I. B. Tauris (August 15, 1994)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1850438196
  • ISBN-13: 978-1850438199
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #846,073 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An Honest Accounting of the Palestinian's Impoverishment, March 5, 2003
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Ilan Pappe is one of the "new historians", a group of Israeli historians who are determined to accurately account for how Israel came to be. It must take courage if you are a Jewish historian and a professor at the University of Haifa, Israel, to give an unvarnished account of how the Jews took the land that comprises Israel. In 1900, the Palestinians owned all 10,000 sq. miles that made up Palestine (now known as Israel, West Bank, and Gaza) - the Palestinians had a well-developed society with villages, civil administration, olive groves, literature, etc... it had been a Muslim society for 1,300 years. But by 2000, the Israelis owned 8,000 sq. miles and occupied the rest. How did this happen? Did the Israelis purchase the land or did they simply take it, driving the Palestinians off their land into refugee camps, poverty, and desperation? Ilan Pappe tells us. It is interesting to me how determined the Israelis are to change the history of Israel and how so few know the real story. It is doubly interesting to see how furious they get when one of their own departs the party line and tells how it really happened. This book is calm and careful with its facts; it is well researched and thoroughly referenced. It will surprise you... the story of Israel is different to what you probably now think. Israelis do not want you to read this book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Diplomacy's First Go , April 25, 2008
By Eric Maroney (Brooktondale, NY) - See all my reviews
The Making of the Arab-Israel Conflict 1947-1951 is mainly a history of the diplomatic efforts to solve the problem of the mixed population of Jews and Arabs in Palestine before the UN Partition of 1947, during the "civil war" among Jews and Palestinians in late 1947 to mid-1948, when the State of Israel was declared and the regular armies of the surrounding Arab states invaded Palestine. Pappe lays out in great detail all the commissions, delegations, Security Council measures, mediation attempts, both before and after the war. He shows their strengths and weaknesses, and in the end, why mediation between Israel and the Arab states (and the Palestinians) failed by 1951. A meticulously researched work, it is abundantly footnoted and fairly presented making admirable use of primary and secondary documents. Perhaps most controversially, he argues against Benny Morris' assertion that Plan Dalet (D) was not primarily an order of expulsion of the Palestinians.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Ilan Pape makes up his 'Facts', April 5, 2008
By Arthur Cohn "Flying Boat Fan" (Portola Valley, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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Ilan Pape is an extremely unreliable 'historian'.Most of what he writes, I know from being alive at the time, did not happen the way he writes in this book.
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