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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe Published by Oneworld Publications (2007)
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by Ahmed
we all know how Palestine was and is still occupied since 1948 we hardly had few books / writers who would tell the truth or have their books sold but as we all know you can hide the truth for few years but not for eternity ….the truth is here coming slowly but surely and whats more coming from unlikely sources …in this book a jewish writer admitting that what was done to Palestine and Palestinians is nothing short than another holocaust /genocide …beautiful book by a renown author
by L Dee
One go the best books I have read in a long time. It really opened my mind up to a topic that has alluded me for some time. I have a totally different perspective on Gaza, the people of Palestine and more generally the Wests view on Iraq and the Muslim brotherhood. I hope that during my lifetime the Palestinians suffering ends and Israel is punished for their treatment of these people. Get this book if you want an easy to read chronology of this conflict.
by Ben Alofs
Ilan Pappe has written a moving account of the dispossession of the Palestinians in 1948. The founding of the State of Israel at the expense of the indigenous inhabitants of Palestine has for a long time been surrounded by Zionist inspired myths, designed to delegitimize the claims of the Palestinians and reduce them to a non-entity.
The destruction of their villages and covering their ruins with forests and claims that Palestinians never existed, as were made by the late Israeli PM Golda Meir, are all part of this.
Accounts of how more thant 700.000 Palestinians lost everything they had in the Nakba of 1948, in what is known as the War for Independence in Israel, have been around for decades. The eminent Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi wrote a seminal account in From Haven To Conquest (1971) and numerous other Western authors have written about the plight of the Palestinians.
In the middle of the 1980s a number of Israeli historians (Simha Flapan, Benny Morris, Tom Segev, Avi Shlaim and Ilan Pappe) began to question the Zionist founding myths as more and more historic documents came available, shining light on the events of 1948.
That in 1948 more than 700.000 Palestinians were expelled by force of arms or fled Palestine and were never allowed to return is beyond doubt. The only question remains the degree of premeditation on the part of the Zionist leadership.
Palestinian historian Nur Masalha has showed convincingly that the concept of transfer of the indigenous Palestinian population was widely discussed among the Zionist leadership in the days of the Mandate. And founding father Theodor Herzl himself spoke in terms of “spiriting the penniless population across the border”.
The aim of the Zionist movement was to create a homogenous ethnic Jewish state in the whole of Palestine. But the presence of a significant majority of Palestinian arabs (Moslems and Christians), owning more than 93% of the cultivated land in Palestine stood in the way. The only way therefore to create an exclusive Jewish state was through force of arms and by ethnic cleansing, which is exactly what happened in 1948.
This is the subject of Ilan Pappe’s book and it is a tour de force. He describes the meetings of the Consultancy, a small group of decision makers led by Ben-Gurion, the finalising of Plan Dalet, which served as the masterplan for ethnic cleansing. He offers new evidence, like the Village Files, a detailed record of all the Palestinian arab villages, their composition, strength and weaknesses which was compiled by Zionist volunteers over decades. The Village Files gave vital information for the military forces, who attacked the villages during their cleansing operations.
The extent of the massacres of Palestinian villagers, that took place, the systematic destruction of hundreds of ancient villages and buildings of great architectural and historic value is heart breaking.
This is a truly moving account of the tragedy that befell the Palestinian people in 1948, a tragedy that continues to this day. In spite of all the pretenses that the State of Israel seeks peace it’s objective is unchanged and that is to get as much Palestinian land as possible with the smallest number of Palestinians. What happens in the Occupied Territories is none other than ethnic cleansing in disguise.
Ilan Pappe’s book is essential reading for all who want to understand the reasons why Palestinians are in conflict with the State of Israel. True peace between Palestinians and Israelis is not possible without addressing the crucial events of 1948. Israelis must end their state of denial in this respect.
With this book Pappe has made an invaluable contribution to the cause of peace.
by Andy Dyer
I’m docking this book one star because its not as well referenced as it could be and there are said to be some mistakes (Benny Morris has condemned it on the basis of a not-very-long list).
However, it does have some very valuable entries – some of the 5 villages that Morris says were abandoned due to Arab orders were, according to Pappe, ethnically cleansed just like the other 400.
Most valuable is the work that Pappe did on the “Consultancy”, the plotters intent on ethnic cleansing who started meeting regularly in October 1947, shortly before the partition resolution was forced through the UN General Assembly. The last meeting at which any of them proposed co-existence was in December and a three-day “Long Seminar” at the beginning of Janusary 1948 was the origin of Plan Dalet. All the Palestinians would be driven from their homes inside the “partition” area and as far as possible in all directions.
by Mr. I. J. Fleming
The modern state of Israel was founded on a lie. It was founded on the forced expulsions and massacres of the indigenous people of Palestine. And it was done with the tacit agreement of the West. 531 Palestinian villages destroyed, 750000 people driven from their homes…these figures are the reality of The Nabka. Read this book and you will understand the burning injustice of what was done. Unless this is addressed there will never be a just, equal and lasting peace in the Holy Land. The book is all the more remarkable having been written by ah Israeli historian. His sources and notes are impeccable. This book is no rant, it is a reasoned explanation of what happened in 1948 and lays bares the lies told to us by the Zionist movement. Excellent.
by Amazon Customer
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.
by nicholas battaliou
To say I loved this book is completely wrong. I hated it. It tells the most terrible systematic story from Ben Gurion’s diaries, Israeli and British archives, of how the Haganah, Stern Gang and early Zionist government structures planned and executed the cleansing of Palestinian villages and towns, commenting on the vast gulf between what Ben Gurion was recording and what he was propagating.
Emotively written, Ilan Pappe itemises the 1948 war’s progression and atrocities. This book will make you seriously question any allegiance to the Zionist cause, appreciate the dreadful complexity of the propaganda, yet understand the terrible simplicity of the acts of cleansing. What was the alternative and what is the solution?