About the Book: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
The renowned Israeli historian revisits the formative period 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 Israels
founding ideology was the