Summary of Ilan Pappe's The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

Book Preview: #1 I would like to thank my friends and family for their support and patience while I worked on this book. It was not dedicated to anyone, but it is written first and foremost for the Palestinian victims of the 1948 ethnic cleansing.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Feb 16, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669347811

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Insights on Ilan Pappe's The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Contents

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Insights from Chapter 2

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Insights from Chapter 5

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#1

I would like to thank my friends and family for their support and patience while I worked on this book. It was not dedicated to anyone, but it is written first and foremost for the Palestinian victims of the 1948 ethnic cleansing.

Insights from Chapter 3

#1

The Red House, a typical early Tel-Avivian building, was the head office of the local workers’ council. It was later used by the Hagana, the main Zionist underground militia, and now houses a car park.

#2

The ethnic cleansing of Palestine was decided upon by the Zionist leadership in March 1948, and was implemented in the following months.

#3

Since the Holocaust, it has become almost impossible to hide large-scale human atrocities. The most formative event in the modern history of the land of Palestine, however, has been systematically denied: the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948 by Israel.

#4

The new history in Israel was an attempt by a small group of Israeli historians to revise the Zionist narrative of the 1948 war. However, they never contributed significantly to the struggle against the Nakba denial as they sidestepped the question of ethnic cleansing.

#5

The new history narrative and recent Palestinian historiographical inputs somehow failed to impact the public conscience and action.

#6

This book accuses the politicians and generals who designed and carried out the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948, and it tries to make the reader understand and feel their responsibility for the atrocities.

#7

ethnic cleansing, in the case of Palestine, means the intentional and systematic removal of a civilian population from an area so that it may be used for military purposes.

#8

Ethnic cleansing is the systematic elimination of a group of people from a given territory on the basis of religious, ethnic, or national origin. It is often associated with military operations. It is achieved by all means possible, from discrimination to extermination, and it violates human rights and international humanitarian law.

#9

Ethnic cleansing is the expulsion of a population in order to homogenize the ethnically mixed population of a particular region or territory. The purpose of expulsion is to cause the evacuation of as many residences as possible, by any means necessary.

#10

The term ethnic cleansing is used to describe the expulsion of an ethnic group from a country. It is a clear-cut case, according to these definitions, of ethnic cleansing when it happened in Palestine in 1948.

#11

The electronic encyclopedia Wikipedia is an accessible reservoir of knowledge and information. It is a Wikipedia article titled Ethnic cleansing that describes the expulsion of an undesirable population from a given territory as a result