The book that is providing a storm of controversy, from ‘Israel’s bravest historian’ (John Pilger) 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. Indispensable for anyone interested in the current crisis in the Middle East.
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So necessary and so important. Couldn't go through this quickly because it was so hard and painful to read about these atrocities, and i'm just reading about them! Imagine the people who went through it. It's truly astounding how the Zionist narrative we see on most of the news has been carefully thought out and manipulated for decades and decades.
The amount of information gathered here sourced accordingly, the carefulness and thoughtfulness and courage of the author, the impartiality of the writing whilst at the same time having such a consideration and empathy for the Palestinian people, it all leads to me feeling in such limitless admiration.
The part about the olive trees still being able to grow even after destruction and splitting the planted pine trees' branches was so powerful, I keep thinking about that.
