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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Paperback – September 1, 2007
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'A major intervention in an argument that will, and must, continue. There's no hope of lasting Middle East peace while the ghosts of 1948 still walk.' ― Independent
'Along with the late Edward Said, Ilan Pappe is the most eloquent writer of Palestinian history.' ― New Statesman
'Pappe has opened up an important new line of inquiry into the vast and fateful subject of the Palestinian refugees. His book is rewarding in other ways. It has at times an elegiac, even sentimental, character, recalling the lost, obliterated life of the Palestinian Arabs and imagining or regretting what Pappe believes could have been a better land of Palestine.' ― Times Literary Supplement
'Ilan Pappe is Israel's bravest, most principled, most incisive historian.' ― John Pilger - director of The War on Democracy and author of Freedom Next Time
'Superb account of how, and why, Palestinians were driven out of their homes.' ― Socialist Review
'Pappe’s book is an essential read for anyone trying to understand the politics and history of the Middle East.' ― Frontline Magazine (an Independent Marxist review from Scotland)
'Leading Israeli historian Ilan Pappe delves into his country's bloodied past in search of answers in the present.' ― Morning Star
'Pappe is one of the brave few voices to stand up and be counted in the oppressive atmosphere of Israeli society. Pappe's book is a searing account of the horrific brutality perpetrated during the birth of the state of Israel.' ― Morning Star
'Pappe is well positioned to lob a grenade such as this one into the twin worlds of Middle Eastern studies and politics. Pappe's book should shock and shame the academic world' ― Arab Banker
'Pappe's ethical clarity and humane vision permeate The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine... Given the meticulous research and compelling moral imperative embodied in The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Zionism itself may be in trouble.' ― Race and Class
'Pappe offers a scorching indictment of Israel's treatment of the Palestinian people in The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.' ― Metro
'A bold expose of Israel's purge of its Arab population in the early years of its existence. It should be read by anyone wanting to grasp the seemingly unfathomable background to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Pappe himself should be supported and applauded.' ― Morning Star
'Ilan Pappe's The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine is a vital contribution to the scholarship from these new historians… Pappe forever puts to rest any doubt that Palestinians were systematically and brutally expelled from their homeland.' ― Against the Current (An independent socialist organisation)
'Pappe’s book will command attention.' ― Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
'Superb account of how, and why, Palestinians were driven out of their homes. Pappe explains why there can be no peace until this crime has been acknowledged and redressed.' ― Scottish Review
'The organization of the material in this book leaves almost nothing to be desired. The twelve sections substantially challenge and considerably undermine the ostensibly convincing Israeli discourse on the refugees question and the 1984 events.' ― Arab Studies Quarterly
'Shocking, telling and illuminating.' ― Emel
'Groundbreaking research into a well-kept Israeli secret. A classic of historical scholarship on a taboo subject by one of Israel's foremost New Historians.' ― Ghada Karmi - Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, England, UK
'Along with the late Edward Said, Ilan Pappe is the most eloquent writer of Palestinian history.' ― New Statesman
'Pappe has opened up an important new line of inquiry into the vast and fateful subject of the Palestinian refugees. His book is rewarding in other ways. It has at times an elegiac, even sentimental, character, recalling the lost, obliterated life of the Palestinian Arabs and imagining or regretting what Pappe believes could have been a better land of Palestine.' ― Times Literary Supplement
'Ilan Pappe is Israel's bravest, most principled, most incisive historian.' ― John Pilger - director of The War on Democracy and author of Freedom Next Time
'Superb account of how, and why, Palestinians were driven out of their homes.' ― Socialist Review
'Pappe’s book is an essential read for anyone trying to understand the politics and history of the Middle East.' ― Frontline Magazine (an Independent Marxist review from Scotland)
'Leading Israeli historian Ilan Pappe delves into his country's bloodied past in search of answers in the present.' ― Morning Star
'Pappe is one of the brave few voices to stand up and be counted in the oppressive atmosphere of Israeli society. Pappe's book is a searing account of the horrific brutality perpetrated during the birth of the state of Israel.' ― Morning Star
'Pappe is well positioned to lob a grenade such as this one into the twin worlds of Middle Eastern studies and politics. Pappe's book should shock and shame the academic world' ― Arab Banker
'Pappe's ethical clarity and humane vision permeate The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine... Given the meticulous research and compelling moral imperative embodied in The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Zionism itself may be in trouble.' ― Race and Class
'Pappe offers a scorching indictment of Israel's treatment of the Palestinian people in The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.' ― Metro
'A bold expose of Israel's purge of its Arab population in the early years of its existence. It should be read by anyone wanting to grasp the seemingly unfathomable background to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Pappe himself should be supported and applauded.' ― Morning Star
'Ilan Pappe's The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine is a vital contribution to the scholarship from these new historians… Pappe forever puts to rest any doubt that Palestinians were systematically and brutally expelled from their homeland.' ― Against the Current (An independent socialist organisation)
'Pappe’s book will command attention.' ― Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
'Superb account of how, and why, Palestinians were driven out of their homes. Pappe explains why there can be no peace until this crime has been acknowledged and redressed.' ― Scottish Review
'The organization of the material in this book leaves almost nothing to be desired. The twelve sections substantially challenge and considerably undermine the ostensibly convincing Israeli discourse on the refugees question and the 1984 events.' ― Arab Studies Quarterly
'Shocking, telling and illuminating.' ― Emel
'Groundbreaking research into a well-kept Israeli secret. A classic of historical scholarship on a taboo subject by one of Israel's foremost New Historians.' ― Ghada Karmi - Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, England, UK
About the Author
Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian and socialist activist. He is a professor of history at the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies. He is also the author of the bestselling The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oneworld), A History of Modern Palestine (Cambridge), The Modern Middle East (Routledge), The Israel/Palestine Question (Routledge), The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel (Yale), The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge (Verso) and with Noam Chomsky, Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians (Penguin). He writes for, among others, the Guardian and the London Review of Books.
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- ASIN : 1851685553
- Publisher : Oneworld Publications; Second edition (September 1, 2007)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 336 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9781851685554
- ISBN-13 : 978-1851685554
- Item Weight : 14.1 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.1 x 1.1 x 7.8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #10,680 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2018
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Ironic that Israel is doing EXACTLY what they claim the Germans did to them, to the Palestinians, and even worse...and the media is silent of course...
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Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2018
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Sentence after sentence, page after page, documented atrocities against Palestinians from 1947-1949 are described. Details of Zionist plans from Theodor Herzl, Ben Gurion and many other Zionist leaders make it crystal clear that they wanted a PURE Jewish stare with ZERO Palestinians from long before 1948. Ben Gurion’s 1937 letter to his son clearly spells out the the Palestinians would need to be removed. That is only one of DOZENS on examples detailed in this book. This is a MUST READ!
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Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2019
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The narrative might be somewhat biased but the facts cannot be disputed and are totally eradicated in the internal historical existence inside of Israel, This level of truth bending cannot stand the test of time this late past the 20th century. A must read albeit extremely emotional and difficult for every Israeli who wishes there to be ray of hope and understanding in this part of the middle east.
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An evidence-based historical analysis of the plight of the Palestinian people from 1945 to our day
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2018Verified Purchase
An extremely well documented account of the land-grab initiated by Ben-Gurion and continued throughout Netanyahu, resulting in the killing or displacement of hundreds of thousands Palestinians; initially supported by the British and continued by American administrations, whether actively of by casting a blind eye. A must read for those interested in the true history of the Middle East. With such a ¾ of century history, It is hard to conceive of a two-state solution.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2018
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With the descriptive detail of a born and raised Israeli and the thorough documentation of a history professor, Pappe describes the forceable removal of the indigenous Palestinian population in a campaign of terror, rape, and systematic looting orchestrated by the highest levels of the Israeli government. Whether or not you agree with its premises, it is an important turning point in raising public awareness of the dark side of the "Israeli Miracle." Dwelling on specific events documented by hundreds of footnotes, it is an easy read relatively free of political rhetoric and heavy-handed erudition.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2019
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very compelling book about what the jews actually did to the Palestinians in the process of stealing all their land. and slaughtering countless of thousand of Palestinians in the process. the killing of the Palestinians puts WW2 to shame. you will never see this information in our current media culture (which is why this book is so very important), because then it would put the jew in a bad light. but the episodes in this enlightened book, verifiably, and ghastly, unfortunately happened. the current powers governing "israel" are all war criminals by legal standards. they should all be prosecuted in the same kangaroo court style of the unfortunate Nurnberg (no umlaut allowed, not surprisingly)trials. my heart goes out to all the Palestinians, who living their normal lives, would suddenly have their homes bulldowzered over by metres of materiel, while they are still alive, to make parks for the new jews who stole their land. again, you will never see this information in the media, which makes this book so forceful and important. we should never allow Nakba again.
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The Book that changes everything we believed about the origins of our own ethics.
Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2020Verified Purchase
In order to create Israel 800,000 Palestinians were systematically, premeditatedly, murdered. A holocaust by any definition. All of the Palestinian men over the age of 10. TEN! -were rounded up and killed tiny village by tiny village. Ben Gurion used the word "Zionism" to market and brand the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, a feat he planned for a solid decade prior by collecting data on every notable aspect of small defenseless Palestinian villages and the people living there. The remaining women, children, and elderly were marched on foot into neighboring Lebanon, Syria, and Jordon where many live without a citizenship or country to this day. Is it possible this might create unrest in the middle east? Sure. This is not the Zionism we were taught in school. Every one of Muslim, Christian, or Jewish faith has a stake in the truth found in this book. Everyone who is concerned about tension in the Middle East, exploitation of oil and other resources in the Middle East, or the future of peace, and the future of a stable and healthy energy policy while combating climate change, has a stake in understanding the truth in this book. Pape' courageously lays out in well documented fashion what really happened after World War II in the former Palestine and the land now called Israel. At the same time the very same leaders were shaping policy that lead to our involvement in VietNam it is clear now that they were also involved in another horrific lie in the middle east. While the Pentagon Papers laid open one horrific lie about Viet Nam it would seem there is another body of information , a "Pentagon Papers 2" of sorts, that clearly still needs exposing about the decisions on world policy by the very same people at the very same time concerning the middle east post World War II policy. This is a superb work with a dire and shocking message that left me asking many questions about the very foundations of what I was taught were the basis of my ethical beliefs. It clearly changes everything.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2018
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this is a book everybody should read.I highly recommend it.
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Why peace eludes the Middle East
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 18, 2020Verified Purchase
Ilan Pappe politely compares the Nakba to the ethnic cleansing of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990’s. It is a good comparison yet we should recall that the Jews had themselves experienced the wrath of a racist state determined to drive them out of Europe. However, no irony would restrain Zionists determined to build an ethnically pure Israel. It is all here: the pogroms, the cold-blooded mass murders, the executions, the rape, the pillage, the torture, the typhoid epidemics, the poisoning of civilian water supplies, the theft of Arab bank accounts, the destruction of property, the injustice, the forced labour camps, the planting of forests over crime-scenes and the rewriting of history. The UN went as far as not using the International Refugee Organisation (IRO), to help the Palestinian refugees in 1948, because the IRO that had helped the European Jews after World War Two. Nobody was meant to make the comparison. “For the Israeli Jews to accept this would naturally mean undermining their own status of victimhood.” writes Pappe.
In 1948 the Israeli State had the upper-hand against Arab countries who were barely nations themselves. The Arabs possessed neither the weapons nor armies to defend the Palestinian refugees - let alone quash the birth of Israel. Yet that is not the propaganda story so carefully airbrushed into place by the victor’s historians and Hollywood. It has been all too easy to demonise the Palestinians. Half of all Palestinian villages had already been cleansed in 1948 BEFORE the Arab nations attempted to defend them. The vast majority of Palestinians expected peace at the partition and had never thought there was a need to defend their villages. They thought life would go on as before within a new state. The Israelis had other ideas, rejecting the UN Partition lines, and drawing up plans to invade the country. Of course, this was the continuation of an ongoing conflict... however most Muslim, Christian and Jewish communities lived peacefully side-by-side. Peace could have been built in a multi-ethnic state. But it was not to be.
If this book is lacking it is in the fact that Pappe does not reach into the minds of these perpetrators. Despite the numerous references to Ben Gurion’s diaries we never really get under the skin of the Zionist mind-set. How did they imagine they could build a peace on the bones of the innocent? They invoked the memory of the destruction of the Jews to justify the destruction of Muslims. Indeed, the Israelis had not expected the UN mediator Count Folke Bernadotte to defend the Palestinians in 1948 as he defended Jews in 1943. They failed to see they were NOW on the wrong side of history. Today Israelis exist behind fortress walls which Pappe compares to medieval Crusaders inside a fortified Jerusalem: “The Zionist project has always been to construct and defend a ‘white’ (Western) fortress in a ‘black’ (Arab) world.” This was colonialism in the mould of the British Empire just at a time when it was falling out of fashion. Pappe writes that what happened in 1948 raises “troubling questions about the moral legitimacy of the Zionist project” as the realities of the Nakba “would trigger moral and existential repercussions for the Israeli Jewish psyche: Israeli Jews would have to recognise that they have become the mirror image of their own worst nightmare”. This is a vital story that must be understood if there is ever to be peace. A must-read book.
In 1948 the Israeli State had the upper-hand against Arab countries who were barely nations themselves. The Arabs possessed neither the weapons nor armies to defend the Palestinian refugees - let alone quash the birth of Israel. Yet that is not the propaganda story so carefully airbrushed into place by the victor’s historians and Hollywood. It has been all too easy to demonise the Palestinians. Half of all Palestinian villages had already been cleansed in 1948 BEFORE the Arab nations attempted to defend them. The vast majority of Palestinians expected peace at the partition and had never thought there was a need to defend their villages. They thought life would go on as before within a new state. The Israelis had other ideas, rejecting the UN Partition lines, and drawing up plans to invade the country. Of course, this was the continuation of an ongoing conflict... however most Muslim, Christian and Jewish communities lived peacefully side-by-side. Peace could have been built in a multi-ethnic state. But it was not to be.
If this book is lacking it is in the fact that Pappe does not reach into the minds of these perpetrators. Despite the numerous references to Ben Gurion’s diaries we never really get under the skin of the Zionist mind-set. How did they imagine they could build a peace on the bones of the innocent? They invoked the memory of the destruction of the Jews to justify the destruction of Muslims. Indeed, the Israelis had not expected the UN mediator Count Folke Bernadotte to defend the Palestinians in 1948 as he defended Jews in 1943. They failed to see they were NOW on the wrong side of history. Today Israelis exist behind fortress walls which Pappe compares to medieval Crusaders inside a fortified Jerusalem: “The Zionist project has always been to construct and defend a ‘white’ (Western) fortress in a ‘black’ (Arab) world.” This was colonialism in the mould of the British Empire just at a time when it was falling out of fashion. Pappe writes that what happened in 1948 raises “troubling questions about the moral legitimacy of the Zionist project” as the realities of the Nakba “would trigger moral and existential repercussions for the Israeli Jewish psyche: Israeli Jews would have to recognise that they have become the mirror image of their own worst nightmare”. This is a vital story that must be understood if there is ever to be peace. A must-read book.
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What the mainstream media will not tell you
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 5, 2019Verified Purchase
The sad truth about the tragedy of the Palestinian people. Pappe's book is full of well documented facts which destroy the many myths about the creation of Israel as circulated by the mainstream media. The fact that it is written by an Israeli Jewish historian lends even greater credibility to it. A must read for anyone interested in the truth about this ongoing tragedy.
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Essential reading on Israel/Palestine
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 26, 2018Verified Purchase
An important and ground-breaking book from a Jewish Israeli historian. It gives the lie to the myth of 'plucky little Israel' and its War of Independence, and reveals in forensic detail the reality behind the hype. Essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the roots of the conflict in Israel/Palestine.
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Fair impartial review of the Palestinian crisis
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 12, 2020Verified Purchase
I really enjoyed this book, as it detailed accounts from the 'other side' that is typically ignored or not reported on in Western media and in a professional objective manner. I have read other books that can paint a rather biased image whether true or not, but this book is fully backed by credible citations some of which are from Israel's very own official IDF records - which immediately eliminates the predictable cries of "propaganda" and "Disinformation" that routinely arise whenever there is any criticism of the current (and past) treatment of Palestinians.
Recommended reading if you have any interest in the conflict or on recent Middle Eastern history, but be warned, this does cause some upset
Recommended reading if you have any interest in the conflict or on recent Middle Eastern history, but be warned, this does cause some upset
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An emotive read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 6, 2020Verified Purchase
If you've ever wondered about what could possibly motivate a young Palestinian lad to stand in front of an Israeli tank armed only with a rock, then this book may provide some answers. Mr Pappe's account of the establishment of the state of Israel is highly emotive and details the long list of crimes committed by the forces under the control of the war criminal Ben Gurion and his subordinates. Ethnic cleansing, mass murder, torture, rape, the destruction of homes & villages, the theft of land and goods... the list is extensive.
It's hard to believe that these deeds were committed under the watchful eye or the world's ruling elite who in their wisdom decided to let them proceed unhindered. It's all very sad.
It's hard to believe that these deeds were committed under the watchful eye or the world's ruling elite who in their wisdom decided to let them proceed unhindered. It's all very sad.
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