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Book Description (written by a Jewish Guy)
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In our communicative world, few modern catastrophes are concealed from the public eye. And yet, Ilan Pappe unveils, one such crime has been erased from the global public memory: the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in 1948. But why is it denied, and by whom? The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine offers an investigation of this mystery.
This is the author's masterpiece, hands down. In 1948, the state of Israel was founded, and ever since the Israeli apologetics have been trying to perpetrate their false narrative, as if they were small in numbers and weak, while the "Arabs" were the favourites to win, yet the Zionists won "against all odds". This is an outright lie.
What really happened in Palestine is a crime against humanity, now known as a "Nakba", the Palastinian Holocoust. The Zionists had always plan to "transfer" most of the country's population outside of Palestine, and in 1948, they devised a detailed plan of such Ethnic Cleansing. Palestinians, who were 2/3 of the country's population, merely wished to keep toiling their lands, but the Zionists coveted their fields, orchards and homes.
Thus started a horrific story of expulstion, massacres and looting, all of which are still going on to this day, with the state of Israel covering their own crimes.
This book and its courageous author, who is an Israeli Jew, used every possible source, including many Zionist ones, to uncover the truth, and this book marks his success.
An absolute must!