TheUniqueOne reviewed The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
4 stars
A good very exhaustive record of the methods and motives of the ethnic cleansing project that began the Zionist project and particularly the Nakba. What is really interesting is how it exposes how both systematic and arbitrary the ethnic cleansing were. With long lists of those to be killed or at the very least driven out of their home including those who were for example minor local politicians while at the same time outside of the many intentionally targeted whether you are driven out of the country or just shot seemed to rely in a lot of villages on the whims of the local commander with neither option given censure by the nascent Israeli government. The book shows the absurdity of denying that the Israeli army had any other goal in its actions in 1948 other than a purposeful attempt to seize as much land as possible and to make …
A good very exhaustive record of the methods and motives of the ethnic cleansing project that began the Zionist project and particularly the Nakba. What is really interesting is how it exposes how both systematic and arbitrary the ethnic cleansing were. With long lists of those to be killed or at the very least driven out of their home including those who were for example minor local politicians while at the same time outside of the many intentionally targeted whether you are driven out of the country or just shot seemed to rely in a lot of villages on the whims of the local commander with neither option given censure by the nascent Israeli government. The book shows the absurdity of denying that the Israeli army had any other goal in its actions in 1948 other than a purposeful attempt to seize as much land as possible and to make sure as little of the natives remain in their newly claimed border as possible. A really good book I'd highly recommend to better understand the Nakba and the founding of the Israeli state.
