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Publisher: Oneworld Publications
ISBN13: 9781851685554
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In this controversial new book, a prominent Israeli historian at Haifa University revisits the formative period of the State of Israel. Decisively debunking the myth that the Palestinian population left of their own accord during the War of Independence, he offers archival evidence to demonstrate that a central plank in Israel's founding ideology was the forcible removal of the indigenous population. This book is a passionate plea to acknowledge the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 as the root cause of the ongoing Palestine-Israel conflict.
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| The real HISTORY of Palestine, as it happened |
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After reading the first 200 pages of Pappe's book, I was convinced that it actually provides the true picture about events in Palestine since 1900. All the actions of the Zionist movement, as well as the unorganized reaction of the Palestinians (they were under Ottoman rule and British rule when Zionism started to become really violent), and the half hearted military support by neighbouring arab countries. It all makes sense.
Considering that Palestine's neighbours are big recipients of US foreign aid (Egypt and Jordania), and considering that Fatah is also an Israeli puppet, on cannot help to feel awful about the fate of Palestinians, at the mercy of unbelievably cruel Zionist aggression.
Before reading any comments by convinced zionist, I advise you to read at least the first pages of this book. If you are not a Zionist, you will feel the despair of palestinians and anger against all Zionists, be they Israeli, US or European. This crime should never be forgotten.
BTW, Pappe is an Israeli professor, who is now "persona non grata" in Israel for speaking the truth.
Any normal country would analyse such grave accusations of crimes committed by their institutions, but not Israel. It continues to accuse anyone daring to criticize its criminal policies as "anti-semitic". A very handy argument, since it obviously kills off any possible discussion on the topic.
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| David the 2nd. |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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If anyone has watched the recent History Channel episode on David vs Goliath, one would see the parrallel with David Ben Gurion and his invastion of Palestine.
Its obvious that the Palestinians used to live there until 1948, and its obvious that the ethnic cleansing started before the neighboring arab countries tried to intervene.
If your still confused about the parrallel, you haven't seen the show. Goliath was the name of the champion sent to defend his territory against the invaders in single combat with David, who was an invader from Egypt. David was a brutal, conniving politician who usurped power from his tribes leaders, slept with his best general's wife and had him killed for it and tried to create an Israel empire. There murderous invading empire extended north into what is now Syria, and east inside of Jordan. Many young chidren in Israel are taught to dream of once again occupying these areas as part of their 'promised land'. It is not promised land, it is stolen land, and they are preying not to a real god, but a false god.
Christians have been taught the David vs Goliath story too, and I'm glad the chutzpah story has been exposed. America needs to once again stand for truth, justice, and to keep their american way to themselves.
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| Ethnic cleansing or harsh response to aggression? |
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Pappe's book essentially details the consequences of actions that precede the heavy conflicts between Jews and so-called Palestinians. Without an understanding of this history it is easy, albeit grossly unfair, to draw the conclusions that Pappe did.
Arabs were unhappy about being ruled by foreigners, and they believed that the British favored Jews from outside Palestine - the Zionists - at their expense. They disliked Britain's Balfour Declaration and its reference to them as "existing non-Jewish communities. And they disliked being referred to in the League of Nation's Mandate Agreement as "the other sections."
Arab frustrations produced attacks on Jews - easier targets than the British army. In Jerusalem in 1920 five Jews were killed and eleven wounded. In response, Jews in Jerusalem organized a self-defense league. The British forbade the carrying of arms and imprisoned the group's leader. Jews set up a clandestine organization for defense, called the Haganah, which had only minor successes in 1921, when Arab attacks became more intense. There were more Arab attacks against Jews in Jerusalem. In Jaffa, Arabs killed forty Jews and wounded around two hundred, and the attacks on Jews spread to other towns. Perhaps the Zionist response was heavy handed but one could argue that if the resistance, and the offensive tactics weren't as well-planned and executed then the Jews would have suffered the same humiliating defeat that marked their entire history after King Soloman. One could also argue that the Jews were reclaiming their historical homeland that was taken from them by the Arabs around 600 AD. However, there has always been a Jewish presence in the Holy Land and, in point of fact, in the late 1800's and for a few decades the Jewish National Fund bought up huge tracts of land from the Turks and Arabs for the purpose of resettling Jews -- hardly stolen land!
In 1922, at the start of the British Mandate there were some 589,000 Muslim Arabs and 71,000 Christian Arabs in Palestine, a number that is probably an overestimate. By 1945, there were well over 1.2 million Arabs in Palestine and perhaps over 1.3 million by 1948. The Arab population of Palestine had about doubled during the years of the mandate. If the Zionists were plotting and planning to evict the Arabs of Palestine, the supposed Zionist policy would have to be judged a miserable failure.
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| Must Read |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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This is a must read book for everyone, especially new generation Palestinians, Arabs and Israelis. The level of documentation outlined in this book is unparalleled. Anyone with an objective mind a free soul looking to understand and realize the nature of this conflict will come to realize the ugly truth that Zionist spin-masters have been trying to hide for the past 60 years.
Little they know that truth ultimately prevails even after hundreds of years. Israelis will continue to live in guilt and shame as long as injustice and ethnic cleansing against Palestinians persist in Palestine.
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| The Number of Jewish Refugees Equalled the Number of Arab Ones |
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That's one fact that anti-Israel propagandists ignore. Another is that there were 200,000 Arabs in Palestine in 1900; the rest immigrated to live with the Zionists because of the economic development the Zionists and the British brought. They were Iraqis and Egyptians and Syrians. The Arabs immigrated to Palestine to live with the Jews long before the Holocaust. Fake books like this one designed to malign the Jews are not new -- they have gone on forever. It is popular among some; it is fun; but it is fundamentally immoral. When Jordan invaded "Palestine" and held its people for 20 years, not one of these false moralists said word one. The Palestinians are Arabs, they should have been resettled just as the Jews resettled an equal number of Jews in Israel in an even population exchange, and their national existence was formed for one purpose -- to oppose a Jewish state in the Middle East not larger than New Jersey. A fair settlement of the current dispute will not be aided by a book that creates yet another invented Jewish conspiracy.
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