Ilan Pappe and the Nakba Deniers The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
JOHN WHITBECK, CounterPunch
For anyone who possesses a strong stomach and an equally strong desire to know the truth, I strongly recommend Israeli historian Ilan Pappe's new book "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine", which makes painstakingly and painfully clear the extent to which the expulsion of the great majority of Palestinians from their homes and homeland between 1947 and 1949 (an expulsion absolutely essential to create a "Jewish state" in a country where, in 1947, the population was still 70% Muslim and Christian and these non-Jews still owned 94% of the land) was meticulously planned, programmed and documented, ruthlessly carried out and, thereafter, efficiently covered up, sanitized, erased from minds and memories and, to the extent necessary, denied. Pappe also makes clear that the cleansing spirit and cleansing practices have continued ever since, with public discussion in Israel of the "demographic threat" posed by those Palestinians still remaining in Palestinian never more openly conducted and with a recent poll showing 68% of Israeli Jews in favor of expelling all Palestinian citizens of Israel...
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Curtis F.J. Doebbler, Al-Jazeerah
...No single example better exemplifies the international community’s failure to stop genocide then the case of Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian. This contemporary genocide has existed since and as long as the international crime of genocide has been defined. The Palestinians owned approximately 94% of Palestine prior to in the creation of Israel in 1947. United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181(II) of 1947, however, gave Israel 54% of the land of Palestine. By the end of the 1948 war this had climbed to about 80%, approximately where it stands today. Since 1967 Israel had confiscated since 1967 an estimated 60 per cent of the West Bank and an estimated 33 per cent of the Gaza Strip. Israel has also confiscated an estimated 33 per cent of the Palestinian land in Jerusalem for public, semi-public, and private use in order to create Israeli military zones, settlements, industrial areas, elaborate "bypass" roads and quarries, as well as to hold "State land" for exclusive Israeli use...
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For anyone who possesses a strong stomach and an equally strong desire to know the truth, I strongly recommend Israeli historian Ilan Pappe's new book "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine", which makes painstakingly and painfully clear the extent to which the expulsion of the great majority of Palestinians from their homes and homeland between 1947 and 1949 (an expulsion absolutely essential to create a "Jewish state" in a country where, in 1947, the population was still 70% Muslim and Christian and these non-Jews still owned 94% of the land) was meticulously planned, programmed and documented, ruthlessly carried out and, thereafter, efficiently covered up, sanitized, erased from minds and memories and, to the extent necessary, denied. Pappe also makes clear that the cleansing spirit and cleansing practices have continued ever since, with public discussion in Israel of the "demographic threat" posed by those Palestinians still remaining in Palestinian never more openly conducted and with a recent poll showing 68% of Israeli Jews in favor of expelling all Palestinian citizens of Israel...
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Curtis F.J. Doebbler, Al-Jazeerah
...No single example better exemplifies the international community’s failure to stop genocide then the case of Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian. This contemporary genocide has existed since and as long as the international crime of genocide has been defined. The Palestinians owned approximately 94% of Palestine prior to in the creation of Israel in 1947. United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181(II) of 1947, however, gave Israel 54% of the land of Palestine. By the end of the 1948 war this had climbed to about 80%, approximately where it stands today. Since 1967 Israel had confiscated since 1967 an estimated 60 per cent of the West Bank and an estimated 33 per cent of the Gaza Strip. Israel has also confiscated an estimated 33 per cent of the Palestinian land in Jerusalem for public, semi-public, and private use in order to create Israeli military zones, settlements, industrial areas, elaborate "bypass" roads and quarries, as well as to hold "State land" for exclusive Israeli use...
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