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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine :: 1851684670
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| Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In our communicative world, few modern catastrophes are concealed from the public eye. And yet, Ilan Pappe unveils, one such crime has been erased from the global public memory: the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in 1948. But why is it denied, and by whom? The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine offers an investigation of this mystery. Editorial Descriptions are usually submitted by the manufacturers, publishers and authors. Contact us if you are one of them, and wish to change the above description. |
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Author: Guest
This book is a must reading for all (Americans, Palestinians, and Israelis). Many still wrongly believe that the Palestinians left their homes and country on their accord, or were told to do so by Arab leaders. Pappe's book clearly demonstrates that ethnic cleansing (a war crime) did indeed take place.
"The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" fully documents what really happened in Palestine before Israel became a state in 1948. Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian at Haifa University. Most of his research is based on Hebrew books, documents and sources.
As I was reading about the cleansing of West Jerusalem (especially, the neighborhood of Qatamon, page 99), I had tears in my eyes because I painfully remembered that day in 1948 when our home was bombed (at night) by the Jewish Hagana terrorist group.
Ilan Pappe quotes this sentence from Itzhak Levy, the head of the Hagana:
"While the cleansing of Qatamon went on, pillage and robbery began. Soldiers and citizens took part in it. They broke into houses and took from them furniture, clothing, electric equipment and food."
Source: Itzhak Levy, "Jerusalem in the War of Independence", Tel Aviv, 1986, in Hebrew, page 219.
Our home, where I was born and raised, was one of those houses described by Itzhak Levy, head of the Hagana.
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Author: Guest
It's important for readers of this book to know who the author is, it's important to understand that he is not an unbiased objective scientist by any stretch of imagination and that he represents the views of a fringe Israeli party, it's important to realize the author's views on truth and fact-findings. The history of the region is messy enough without introducing an ideological communist perspective into the picture.
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Author: Guest
This book is painful to read. It is particularly painful for those who wish to support Israel, "come what may", as many do. As we see from the criticisms of the book they seem to be reduced to blanket denials and ad hominem attacks on Pappe. The reason is that Pappe's revelations about the early Zionists' deliberate, brutal, and carefully planned "ethnic cleansing" [a term that blandly covers the murder and rape of thousands and which resulted in the refugee status of hundreds of thousands denied return to their homes in defiance of UN resolutions] and the theft of Palestinian property is based on his careful research into Israeli records, principally the dairies of David Ben-Gurion, a man who is revealed as a monstrous war criminal by every international standard. This is hard to take for those brought up to see Israel as "a light unto the nations" and has been omitted from the history taught to young Israelis. How could it be included?
Perhaps more surprising for readers who are not familiar with the period of Israel's creation is the shameful part played by Britain and Jordan in watching the Palestinians be brutally driven from their homes and sometimes murdered. The Jordanians wanted their piece of Palestine and went along to a certain extent and the British just wanted out. Most surprising is the recognition that the Zionists, far from being at the mercy of invading Arab forces as is often claimed, always had superior military power, supplied by East European communist nations, and better quality forces which they understood very well while telling the rest of the world how they were in dire straits! The honeyed words of Abba Eben, described by Pappe as "rhetorical obfuscations" were of great value to Israel for many years in fooling the west diplomatically about Israel's real actions. The ethnic cleansing continued all the time, and as Pappe says, it is still going on by more clever means.
This book will likely be ignored by the mainstream media in the United States because of the devastating picture it paints of the reality of the Zionist state and the strong factual evidence it presents but it should be read by anyone who want to know the truth about the foundation of Israel.
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Author: Guest
Simply put, this book is excellent and must be read by all who are involved in and concerned with the Israel/Palestine conflict. Of course, specifically, it should be read by Israelis and American Jews in particular (I say this as an American anti-zionist Jew) who to a large degree are in denial as to the true source of the conflict, which is the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians initiated in 1948, aka the Nakba. In an age where the world is shocked by denial of the Nazi Holocaust, there is still pervasive and widespread denial of the Nakba, the central event in the plight of the Palestinians. I hope all those who are skeptical and hostile to the premise of this book overcome their fear and insecurity and do the right thing; read it.
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Author: Guest
This is not a science book on the history of the region, this is an op-ed piece written by an Israeli communist (fringe movement in Israel) who openly admits in his interviews that he is not a truth seeker and is motivated by ideological reasons. So was Stalin by the way, would anyone believe Stalin's books? That Ilan Pappe is not a truth seeker is obvious to anyone reading this book. Don't waste your money.
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