The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
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Authors: Ilan Pappe
Tags: #History, #Middle East, #Israel & Palestine, #General, #Modern, #20th Century
PRAISE FOR
THE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINE
‘Ilan Pappe is Israel’s bravest, most principled, most incisive historian.’
—John Pilger
‘Ilan Pappe has written an extraordinary book of profound relevance to the past, present, and future of Israel/Palestine relations.’
—Richard Falk, Professor of International Law and Practise, Princeton University
‘If there is to be real peace in Palestine/Israel, the moral vigour and intellectual clarity of
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
will have been a major contributor to it.’
—Ahdaf Soueif, author of
The Map of Love
‘This is an extraordinary book – a dazzling feat of scholarly synthesis and Biblical moral clarity and humaneness.’
—Walid Khalidi, Former Senior Research Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
‘Fresh insights into a world historic tragedy, related by a historian of genius.’
—George Galloway MP
‘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, author of
In Search of Fatima
‘Ilan Pappe is out to fight against Zionism, whose power of deletion has driven a whole nation not only out of its homeland but out of historic memory as well. A detailed, documented record of the true history of that crime,
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
puts an end to the Palestinian “Nakbah” and the Israeli “War of Independence” by so compellingly shifting both paradigms.’
—Anton Shammas, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern Literature, University of Michigan
‘An instant classic. Finally we have the authoritative account of an historic event, which continues to shape our world today, and drives the conflict in the Middle East. Pappe is the only historian who could have told it, and he has done so with supreme command of the facts, elegance, and compassion. The publication of this book is a landmark event.’
—Karma Nabulsi, research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University
‘The first book to so clearly document the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948, of which the massacre at Deir Yassin was emblematic. A masterful achievement.’
—Daniel McGowan, Executive Director, Deir Yassin Remembered, Hobart and William Smith College
‘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.’
—The Times Literary Supplement
‘Succinct, clearly written, sometimes emotionally overwhelming in its personalized presentation,
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
should be put forward as a document serving as a prime witness to the war crimes and the crimes against humanity of the destruction of Palestinian society and cultural geography by the Jewish state.’
—Palestine Chronicle
‘Pappe offers a scorching indictment of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian people in
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
.’
—Metro
‘Pappe is one of the brave few voices to stand up and be counted in the oppressive atmosphere of Israeli society.’
—Morning Star
‘For anyone who possesses a strong stomach and an equally strong desire to know the truth.’
—Counterpunch
‘Pappe is well positioned to lob a grenade such as this one into the twin worlds of Middle Eastern studies and politics.’
—Arab Banker
ILAN PAPPE
THE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINE
First published by Oneworld Publications Limited October 2006
This paperback edition first published 2007
Reprinted 2008 (three times), 2010, 2011
This ebook edition published by Oneworld Publications 2011
Copyright © Ilan Pappe 2006
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ISBN-13: 978–1–78074–056–0
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The publishers would like to thank the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for permission to reproduce the photographs on plates 8, 10–12, 18, 19, and back cover, all copyright © UNRWA. The publishers would also like to thank the Institute of Palestine Studies, Beirut, for permission to publish the photographs on plates 14-17, all from the book
All That Remains
(ed. Walid Khalidi) and for generously providing maps 3, 4, and 7; and would like to express their sincere gratitude to Abu al-Sous of
www.palestineremembered.com
, whose assistance in locating images has been invaluable. The photographs on plates 4 & 13 copyright © Bettmann/Corbis; the photograph on plate 1 copyright © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis; the photograph on plate 6 and front cover copyright © Getty Images; the facsimile article on plate 7 copyright ©
New York Times
.
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List of Illustrations, Maps and Tables
3. Partition and Destruction: UN Resolution 181 and its Impact
The Changing Mood in the Consultancy: From Retaliation to Intimidation
7. The Escalation of the Cleansing Operations: June–September 1948
List of Illustrations, Maps, and Tables
1. Irgun troops marching through Tel-Aviv, 14 May 1948
2. Jewish forces occupy a village near Safad
3. Jewish forces enter Malkiyya
4. Arab men of military age are marched to holding camps
5. The Red House in Tel-Aviv, headquarters of the Hagana
6. Refugee women, children and the elderly are evacuated
7. The
New York Times
report on the Deir Yassin massacre
8. Palestinian refugees flock to the sea to escape
9. Refugees on the move
10. Loading belongings into trucks for the journey
11. Elderly refugees
12. Palestinian refugees flee on fishing boats
13. Jewish immigrants arrive at the port in Haifa
14. The village of Iqrit before its destruction
15. The village of Iqrit, 1990
16. A theme park on the site of Tantura
17. The cemetery of Salama
18. Nahr al-Barid refugee camp in northern Lebanon
MAPS AND TABLES19. Baqa’a refugee camp, Jordan
1. Jewish State Proposed by the World Zionist Organisation, 1919