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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

By: Ilan Pappe
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
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Renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking book revisits the formation of the State of Israel. 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. This is an indispensable book for anyone interested in the current crisis in the Middle East.

©2006 Ilan Pappe (P)2017 Tantor Political Science Politics & Government World Middle East Iran War Africa
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It shows the slaughter and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the formation and maintenance of the state of Israel. Quite different to the story we are fed in the western world.

The reality of the formation of Israel.

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There are not words to distil the horrors that have been inflicted upon the Palestinian people. Ilan Pappe describes in detail the early results of the world's failure to prevent genocide.

Every sentence speaks another tragedy

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Pappe guides the readers through events that led up to the Nakba in in 1948, and continues through to modern times. Of particular note, Pappe regularly quotes pertinent government documents to support his research. Almost two decades have passed since publication of this book but it remains heartbreakingly relevant.

Essential reading

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This book takes the reader back in time to the origins of the establishment of Israel. It dismantles the Zionist propaganda about this era and documents the zionist 's efforts to eradicate the Palestinians and their rooted culture from the land.

The means described by this book and used in this era to ethnically cleanse the peaceful unarmed Palestinian population is abhorrent and staggering. The efforts to hide it is nothing less than disgusting.

An eye opener

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An understanding of the Palestinians systematic ethic cleansing by the Zionist Israelis, factual and real, the world have failed the Palestinians so far, let’s change that by awareness, peace and correction of past wrongs.

The truth hurts here

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Very important book for those interested in Palestine/Israel conflict.
shedding lights on true events and mentality of Zionists who occupied by force Palestine

Truth revelation

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This book offers information and narratives very hard to find anywhere else. The language used can be quite biased at times, but overall a good source.

Great information

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Written in 2006 and released in this format in 2017, this remains very pertinent to any examination of the situation of Israel.

Compelling use of archival material to reshape the national myth.

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This is a great first book to read to gain an understanding of the brutal colonial regime of Israel. It shows, with great detail and evidence, how Israel is a stated formed through the historical and ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.

Essential reading

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An book that discribes the crimes and injustice against a host nation, from an ethnicity that should have thanked them.
a must read for anyone who thinks they are human being and would love for fellow humans to oive in peace.

A must read book for anyone identifying as human!

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