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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Paperback – September 1, 2007

by Ilan Pappe (Author)
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The book that is providing a storm of controversy, from ‘Israel’s bravest historian’ (John Pilger)

Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking work on the formation of the State of Israel.

'Along with the late Edward Said, Ilan Pappe is the most eloquent writer of Palestinian history.' NEW STATESMAN

Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint.

Denied for almost six decades, had it happened today it could only have been called 'ethnic cleansing'. Decisively debunking the myth that the Palestinian population left of their own accord in the course of this war, Ilan Pappe offers impressive archival evidence to demonstrate that, from its very inception, a central plank in Israel’s founding ideology was the forcible removal of the indigenous population. Indispensable for anyone interested in the current crisis in the Middle East.

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'Ilan Pappe is Israel's bravest, most principled, most incisive historian.' JOHN PILGER

'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

'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
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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

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 1.2 x 7.8 inches
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T. L. Cooper
5.0 out of 5 stars We Can't Learn from History Unless We Know the Truth
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2024
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe came highly recommended by several sources. After I watched a few interviews with Pappe, I finally found the book available and immediately ordered it. It is a fascinating, must-read book for anyone who wants to better understand how Israel came into existence on land inhabited by Palestinians and known as Palestine. Pappe is an Israeli historian who used Israel's historical documents to expose the history that has been obfuscated and manipulated to manufacture a narrative more palatable to much of the world than the truth. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine explores the atrocities of the Nakba and the years leading up to the Nakba as well as the invention of Zionism. Pappe explores and explains attitudes, behaviors, and decisions made by those in charge using their own diaries and official records in a way that brings the people of the time and the moments they experienced to life. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine is well-researched, well-written and accessible to anyone wanting to better understand what brought us to the world as it currently stands because it demonstrates how the ethnic cleansing of Palestine has always reached far beyond Palestine.
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R. F. Biniszkiewicz
5.0 out of 5 stars Revelatory.
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2024
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Stunning evidence and convincing argument supporting the Palestinian narrative of oppression and dispossession at the hands of Israel. it makes today's landscape comprehensible, including catastrophic contemporary 2024 events. Today's 'war' (not very 2 sided) only exacerbates the fundamental injustice of the Israel/Palestinan divide. This book illuminates in revelatory granular detail, sourced from blue chip documents.

The author is a Jewish scholar who cites declassified personal diaries of Israel's founders (all such personal matter is declassified after 50 years in Israel). The evidence of intentional ethnic cleansing by ruthlessly violent means leading up to Israel's creation is stunning and damning to Zionists who staked out desired territory for the imminent creation of the State of Israel. The violence employed succeeded in its aim, displacing Palestinian village after village after village, ultimately displacing 700,000 Arabs from the territory of the soon to be announced State of Israel.

Those Arabs who fled the violence (the purpose of the violence in the first place was to get them to flee, after all) were never allowed to return. They were called the Palestinian Refugees. The PLO was their "Liberation" focused political governing body. Their descendants now number over 5 million. Israel never can accept the "right of return" to displaced Palestinians to their native villages within Israel because allowing them to become citizens would instantly tip the balance of Israel to minority Jewish. It was the case back in '48. And it's the case still.
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Ibtisam
5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to read and follow, has quotes/specific evidence
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2024
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This book is amazing. Understanding and writing about israel/palestine isn't easy, but this book is a great start in my opinion. It was recommended to me by my israeli arab conflicts professor and I see why. Anyone starting can easily read this and follow along, and the quotes of these leaders provided by the author are very revealing of zionism and what it entails. The details of the village files and other things is heartbreaking but important to read. The author also did a great job of splitting the chapter and subsections in an order that allows his work to flow together.
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AK
5.0 out of 5 stars Factual, step by painful step review
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2024
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It was painful to read because it’s so well researched.
Village village and month by month account of early Israeli and Palestinian history.
By the end of it you will have granular knowledge of how 1948 unfolded but also what lead to it and the immediate aftermath.
Relevant and well researched
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J. Ramsey
4.0 out of 5 stars Very detailed and scholarly
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2024
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This writer appears to be a very knowledgeable historian. There are no footnotes, but there is an ample bibliography. The book is packed with details and is a real eye-opener. I would say the writing is pitched to someone who already has a fair amount of knowledge about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A reader who knows nothing about the subject may very well feel like they've been thrown into the deep end of the pool. For instance, what exactly is or was "Mandatory Palestine"? I had to look it up. So, maybe not for beginners, which is why I give it 4 stars.
Another thing you'll notice about this book is that it is quite focused on what exactly the crime of "ethnic cleansing" is and how the Israeli-Palestinian situation fits that scenario. A reader looking for some other aspect of Israeli-Palestinian history might or might not find it here, although the book, at 313 pages, does cover quite a lot.
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Daniel Labyad
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent work
Reviewed in Canada on April 25, 2024
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A must read for those who dont know the full story and only have heard the controlled mass media spin
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Jose Carlos Neves de Araujo
5.0 out of 5 stars Leitura indispensável
Reviewed in Brazil on April 7, 2024
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine é leitura indispensável para quem realmente quer saber o que acontece na Palestina ao longo de décadas. Ilan Pappe faz um corajoso relato dessa história.
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Tsachtidis Stefanos
5.0 out of 5 stars An extraordinary book.
Reviewed in Germany on March 29, 2024
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It describes the truth about the conflict between Palestine and the Zionist governments of Israel the last 75 years.
Describes the oppression and the Apartheid.
Describes the settling of people in a land that doesn't belong to them.
Describes an occupation.
Describes how the Palestinians expelled from their homes.
Describes how you can become a refugee in the land where your ancestors have been living for the last 4,000 years.
Describes an ethnic cleansing.

It describes a genocide.
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Tsachtidis Stefanos
5.0 out of 5 stars An extraordinary book.
Reviewed in Germany on March 29, 2024
It describes the truth about the conflict between Palestine and the Zionist governments of Israel the last 75 years.
Describes the oppression and the Apartheid.
Describes the settling of people in a land that doesn't belong to them.
Describes an occupation.
Describes how the Palestinians expelled from their homes.
Describes how you can become a refugee in the land where your ancestors have been living for the last 4,000 years.
Describes an ethnic cleansing.

It describes a genocide.
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Frog
5.0 out of 5 stars Livre Important pour comprendre l'actualité
Reviewed in France on March 28, 2024
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Toute personne qui pense que le conflit actuel est une "guerre" ou que tout a commencé en octobre dernier doit d'urgence éteindre sa télé et lire ce livre.
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Dr. M
5.0 out of 5 stars Good book
Reviewed in India on June 1, 2022
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Book is good history
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