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THE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINE - ILAN PAPPÉ ...

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.   ***   '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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