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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Pappe, Ilan
Publisher: OneworldYear Published: 2007 Pages: 313pp Price: £15.99 ISBN: 978-1-85168-555-4 Resource Type: Book Cx Number: CX7103 Israeli historian Ilan Pappe recounts the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Israel during the war of 1948. Abstract: Ilan Pappe, who has written a number of influential books on the Middle East, holds the Chair in History at the University of Exeter. In The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine he offers archival evidence to demonstrate that a major factor of Israel's founding ideology, from the very beginning, has been the forcible removal of the indigenous population. The book is divided into twelve chapters with titles including "The Drive for an Exclusive Jewish State," "Occupation and its Ugly Faces" and "The Phony War and the Real War over Palestine." Pappe argues that, though the modern "communication-driven world" does not allow for large-scale crimes against humanity to be concealed, the crime committed by Israel in 1948 - the dispossession of the Palestinians -- has been denied and almost completely erased from the global public memory. He gives a detailed description of events in Palestine from 1948 onwards, stressing that the main goal of the Zionist movement was ethnic cleansing, a fact which has been "thoroughly denied", and that Palestinian suffering has been totally ignored ever since 1948. The book contains a chronology of key dates, some illustrations and a number of maps and tables to support its argument. [Abstract by Nabeeha Chaudhary] Table of Contents List of Illustrations, Maps and Tables Acknowledgements Preface 1. An 'Alleged' Ethnic Cleansing Definition of Ethnic Cleansing Ethnic Cleansing as a Crime Reconstructing an Ethnic Cleansing 2 The Drive for an Exclusively Jewish State Zionism's Ideological Motivation Military Preparations The Village Files Facing the British: 1945-1947 David Be-Gurion: The Architect 3. Partition and Destruction: UN Resolution 181 and its Impact Palestine's Population The UN's Partition Plan the Arab and Palestinian Positions The Jewish Reaction The Consultancy Begins its Work 4. Finalising A Master Plan The Methodology of Cleansing The Changing Mood in the Consultancy: From Retaliation to Intimidation December 1947: Early Actions January 1948: Farewell to Retaliation The Long Seminar: 31 December - 2 January February 1948: Shock and Awe March: Putting the Finishing Touches to the Blueprint 5. The Blueprint for Ethnic Cleansing: Plan Dalet Operation Nachshon: The First Plan Dalet Operation The Urbicide of Palestine The Cleansing Continues Succumbing to a Superior Power Arab Reactions Towards the 'Real War' 6. The Phony War and the Real War over Palestine: May 1948 Days of Tihur The Massacre of Tantura The Brigades' Trail of Blood Campaigns of Revenge 7. The Escalation of the Cleansing Operations: June - September 1948 The First Truce Operation Palm Tree In Between Truces The Trace that Wasn't 8. Completing the Job: October 1948 - January 1949 Operation Hiram Israel's Anti-Repatriation Policy A Mini Empire in the Making Final Cleansing of the South and East The Massacre in Dawaymeh 9. Occupation and its Ugly Faces Inhuman Imprisonment Abuses Under Occupation Dividing the Spoils Desecration of Holy Sites Entrenching the Occupation 10. The Memoricide of the Nakba The Reinvention of Palestine Virtual Colonialism and the JNF The JNF Resort Parks in Israel 11. Nakba Denial and the 'Peace Process' First Attempts at Peace The Exclusion of 1948 from the Peace Process The Right of Return 12. Fortress Israel The 'Demographic Problem' Epilogue Endnotes Chronology Maps and Tables Bibliography Index Subject Headings
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