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All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 Paperback – April 13, 2006

by Walid Khalidi (Editor)
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This authoritative reference work describes in detail the more than 400 Palestinian villages that were destroyed or depopulated by Israel in 1948. Little of these once-thriving communities remains: not only have they been erased from the Palestinian landscape, their very names have been removed from contemporary Israeli maps. But to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living in their diaspora, these villages were home, and continue to be poignantly powerful symbols of their personal and national identity.
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  1. Print length
    636 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Institute for Palestine Studies
  4. Publication date
    April 13, 2006
  5. Dimensions
    10.75 x 8.25 x 1.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0887283063
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0887283062
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  • Mary, Queen Of Scots
    5.0 out of 5 stars Some ethnic cleansings are more equal than others.
    Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2022
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    Chillingly factual. No embellishment required.

    Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Ukraine, Palestine - all ethnic cleansings are equal, but some ethnic cleansings are more equal than others.

    Where is the outrage?
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    Fast delivery and reasonable price!
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  • sugs
    5.0 out of 5 stars Some illegitimate land of Israel
    Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2015
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    This is indispensable reading for anyone wishing for some of the truth regards the Zionist/. Israeli takeover and destruction of hundreds of Palestinian villages and some of their people in 1947/48
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  • looking-for-truth
    5.0 out of 5 stars Must read!
    Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2013
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    Everyone who thinks there was no Palestine before 1948, and everybody else, should read this and "Before Their Diaspora" by the same author. Heart wrenching and thought provoking
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  • Ben Alofs
    5.0 out of 5 stars Breathing life into the names of vanished Palestinian villages
    Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2019
    "All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948", published first in 1992, remains an essential landmark. It has been in my library since 2001 and I refer to it on a regular basis. Edited by Walid Khalidi, who is Palestine's foremost Oxford educated historian and a recognized authority on the Palestine Question, this is an encyclopaedic work of breathtaking proportions.
    The work was undertaken with two aims in mind: "The first was to arrive at the most authoritative list possible of the depopulated and destroyed villages on the basis of clearly defined methodology and criteria. The second was to present the villages swept away in the catastrophe that was 1948 individually, as ends in themselves."
    The book is a collaborative venture between three institutions: the Institute of Palestine Studies in Washington, DC, Birzeit University in the West Bank, and the Galilee Center for Social Research in Nazareth, Israel. Khalidi noted that the work was not intended as an original or comprehensive history of the depopulated villages or a military history of the fall of these villages, less even a history of the 1948 war. Nor is it a survey of the geographical, archaeological or cultural landscapes in which these villages existed; time (to collect testimonies before the villagers die) and resources did not permit the kind of in-depth research that alone would have done them justice.
    "All That Remains" concentrates on the depopulation of the countryside at the most micro level to the exclusion of the towns. The book brings together what amounts to a snapshot of each of the destroyed villages prior to 1948, including statistical, topographical, historical, architectural, archaeological, and economic material; the circumstances of the village's occupation and depopulation; and a description of what remains.
    In essence, "All That Remains.." is a manual, a dictionary of destroyed villages presented individually, yet in the context of their region and the events that swept them away. It is, Khalidi says, an attempt to breathe life into a name, to give body to a statistic, to render to these vanished villages a sense of their distinctiveness. It is, in sum, meant to be a kind of "in memoriam".
    The methodology of how the list of villages was compiled is clearly described. They only refer to villages within the pre-1967 borders and criteria for inclusion were refined: the depopulation had to have occurred during the 1948 war or in the immediate aftermath. For a village to be included it had to have a core of permanent structures. Semi-nomadic encampments (a great many Bedouin in the Naqb desert were displaced) were excluded.
    The book relies heavily on field research, which is at its very heart.. This was carried out from 1987 to 1990, using a working list of 438 villages. Except for 13 villages (either because they were in a closed military zone or engulfed by Israeli settlements with their inhabitants denying access) the research teams visited all the villages on the working list.
    A number of villages were eliminated because they were vacated before hostilities began or were temporary agglomerations or on land purchased by the Jewish National Fund in the 1930s. The Institute of Palestine Studies' final list then was 418 villages, all within the pre-1967 boundaries.
    The result is an impressive encyclopedia.
    To this day "All That Remains" continues to be the most comprehensive work to date about the destruction of Palestinian village society. It takes the reader to the heart of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict by a new, seldom traveled route: that of the anonymous Palestinian villager.
    Since its publication in 1992 both Palestinians (via the website of Palestine Remembered for instance) and honorable Israelis (the members of Zochrot, meaning Remembering in Hebrew, and Israeli historian Ilan Pappe with his book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine) have added to the knowledge of the Nakba or Catastrophe of 1948.
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  • A.J.
    5.0 out of 5 stars a truth many dont want told
    Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2005
    This is a book that tells the truth about a subject many would rather cover up. It is a voice of truth against a decades long propoganda campaign which wishes to pretend that Palestinians didn't have homes or villages within what is now Israel. Khalidi catalogs hundreds of villages which are now gone. Gone as a result of Israel's extensive efforts after 1948 to erase every trace, with explosives and excavators, of the villages. Even with the extensive catalog of information presented, there are those who are in denial. They start with dishonest works that claim what is now Israel was empty when they arrived. Since it was empty, the villages destroyed were simply empty ruins. Lies build on lies.

    The first british count of the population of Palestine after they took over showed around 80,000 jews and around 700,000 who were not Jews. Khalidi shows the reality of those 700,000 people and their lives. And how the evidence of that reality was erased.

    Many will be angry that Israeli pseudo-scholars and pseudo-scholarship which has definitively "proved" that what is now Israel was empty before Jewish settlers arrived is not accepted as fact. But they have little to be angry about considering that their scholarship has no crediblity outside of Israel and the US Christian Right. The grim reality as shown by Walid Khalidi in this book is impossible to dismiss because the truth of it is right there on the page. No matter how many books they can find to say that what is now Israel was empty of people, every census and what physical evidence is left proves them wrong.

    Khalidi will also by some be said to be ungreatful to the British and the Jewish settlers. Along with the arguments that palestinians didn't exist and their villages were not real, is the sick idea (refuted by the book) that Palestinians were little more than savages whose only possiblity of advancement was by being civilized by europeans. They fail often to understand that slaves don't enjoy the benefits of progress created by their masters. In the end, they can only repeat the official line that these people didn't exist or were shiftless drifters who have no attachment to any land.

    Khalidi provides in the book detailed surveys of villages lost in 1948. He has unearthed masses of documentation and photographs. The material shows the existance and life of these villages. What is presented will never be good enough for some critics. All that can be said is that we fortunate that so much survives considering the lengths that Israel went to after 1948 to erase even the rubble of these villages from the face of the earth.

    Finally, Khalidi shows with Israeli documents how Israeli policies in 1948 led to the depopulation of the villages. It must always be remembered that Israel could only exist as a democracy after 1948 by driving enough palestinians from their homes during the war. The massacre of civilians

    such as Dier Yassein and other policies drove these people from their homes and the borders drawn after the war did not let them come back.

    Khalidi's evidence for the obvious, the existance of pre-1948 Palestinians, is so overwhelming that no honest person could deny the reality of what he presents. But the enemies of peace in the middle east will even in spite of all of Khalidi's material deny the truth.
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  • Norma R. De Yagcier
    5.0 out of 5 stars An EXCELLENT reference book
    Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2003
    A must read for anyone interested in Jewish-Palestinian relations. I think that the information presented was written in a very clear and factual fashion, free from "emotional propoganda" but it would surprise me if anyone could walk away from reading without experiencing either a sense of loss, profound sadness or even outright disbelief.
    Regardless of your stance on this issue, the painstaking task of documenting, investigating, cataloging, interviewing, and presenting the tremendous changes within the Palestinian-Israeli borders can be well appreciated.
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  • Omar Abdelghany
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent historical account
    Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2007
    This book shows the world why there is violence in Palestine today. Because Israel was built on other people's lands, homes, cities, and villages. More than 450 Palestinian cities and villages were ethnically cleansed by the Israeli occupation, and this book goes through each one, telling its story and how the population was forced out violently. Injustice is the cause of all the worlds problems.
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  • tkettaneh
    5.0 out of 5 stars Une fresque historique de la Palestine
    Reviewed in France on December 16, 2023
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    Un livre qui retrace la dépopulation systématique des Palestiniens par les Israéliens
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  • Miguel
    5.0 out of 5 stars Traurig aber wunderbar.
    Reviewed in Germany on May 14, 2017
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    Ein faszinierend trauriges Buch. Sehr fundiert recherchiert von einer Reihe Historikern geschrieben. Es werden die Orte und Dörfer im früheren Palästina beschrieben, die im Krieg von 1948 zerstört oder vertrieben wurden. Da wird in nüchternen Fakten eine Welt beschrieben, die es nicht mehr gibt, und die es so auch nicht mehr geben wird.
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