BOSTON, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Ilan Pappe addresses the
Palestine-Israel conflict and links the ethnic cleansing of 1948 to
prospects for a lasting peace in the region in his new book, "The Ethnic
Cleansing of Palestine" (to be published by Oneworld Publications, November
2006).
The author will be available for interviews in Boston, November 17-22,
2006.
'Ilan Pappe is Israel's bravest, most principled, most incisive
historian.' - John Pilger
As Israel stands accused by Amnesty International of committing war
crimes in Lebanon following its almost 5-week bombardment of that country,
which left over a thousand civilians dead and almost a million displaced, a
prominent Israeli historian at HaifaUniversity revisits the formative
period of the State of Israel to investigate the treatment of the
indigenous Palestinians.
In his controversial new book, "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine,"
Ilan Pappe investigates the fate suffered by the indigenous population of
1940s Palestine at the hands of the Zionist political and military
leadership. During this period, around a million people were expelled from
their own country at gunpoint, civilians were massacred, and over 400
Palestinian villages deliberately destroyed. Denied for almost six decades,
had it happened today it could only have been called "ethnic cleansing."
With meticulous research, and drawing heavily on recently declassified
military archives and cabinet meeting minutes, as well as the diaries and
memoirs of the key players, Pappe methodically reconstructs the strategic
planning and military operations during the British Mandate and the run-up
to independence. He goes on to offer a detailed account of the events of
1947-8 as they unfolded, which eventually led to one of the biggest refugee
migrations in modern history.
This is no moral rant against the past, but a passionate plea to
acknowledge the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 as the root cause of
the ongoing Palestine-Israel conflict. Pappe argues persuasively that the
consequent dispossession of a million native Palestinians from their
homeland, and the continued denial of their right of return, constitute an
abuse of international human rights, which he decisively links to Middle
East politics today, and the prospects for a lasting peace in the country
and, therefore, in the region.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ilan Pappe is a senior lecturer of Political Science at
HaifaUniversity. His previous works include the bestselling "A History of
Modern Palestine," "The Modern Middle East" and "The Israel/Palestine
Question."
For further information, see:
http://tinyurl.com/y9f53v
See also Ilan Pappe in debate with fellow Israeli Professor Efraim
Karsh on Sky News, 18th October 2006:
http://tinyurl.com/ygw5jn
Publication Details:
THE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINE
by ILAN PAPPE
PUBLICATION DATE: November 20th, 2006
Hardcover, $27.50, 336pp
1-85168-467-0
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