The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

by Pappe, Ilan

• ISBN13: 9781851685554
• ISBN10: 1851685553
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-07
• Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER

Summary

The 1948 Israeli War of Independence involved one of the largest forced migrations in modern history. Around a million people were expelled from their homes at gunpoint, civilians were massacred, and hundreds of Palestinian villages destroyed. Denied for almost six decades, had it happened today it could only have been called "ethnic cleansing".

Author Biography

Ilan Pappe holds the Chair in Hisotry at the University of Exeter and is Academic Director of the Research Insitute for Peace at Givat Haviva and Chair of the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian Studies, Haifa. He is also author of the bestselling A History of Modern Palestine (Cambridge), The Modern Middle East (Routledge), and The Israel/Palestine Question (Routledge).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations, Maps and Tables	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
An 'Alleged' Ethnic Cleansing?	p. 1
Definitions of Ethnic Cleansing	p. 1
Ethnic Cleansing as a Crime	p. 5
Reconstructing an Ethnic Cleansing	p. 7
The Drive for an Exclusively Jewish State	p. 10
Zionism's Ideological Motivation	p. 10
Military Preparations	p. 15
The Village Files	p. 17
Facing the British: 1945-1947	p. 22
David Ben-Gurion: The Architect	p. 23
Partition and Destruction: UN Resolution 181 and its Impact	p. 29
Palestine's Population	p. 29
The UN's Partition Plan	p. 31
The Arab and Palestinian Positions	p. 33
The Jewish Reaction	p. 35
The Consultancy Begins its Work	p. 37
Finalising A Master Plan	p. 39
The Methodology of Cleansing	p. 39
The Changing Mood in the Consultancy: From Retaliation to Intimidation	p. 52
December 1947: Early Actions	p. 55
January 1948: Farewell to Retaliation	p. 60
The Long Seminar: 31 December-2 January	p. 61
February 1948: Shock and Awe	p. 72
March: Putting the Finishing Touches to the Blueprint	p. 80
The Blueprint for Ethnic Cleansing: Plan Dalet	p. 86
Operation Nachshon: The First Plan Dalet Operation	p. 87
The Urbicide of Palestine	p. 91
The Cleansing Continues	p. 103
Succumbing to a Superior Power	p. 114
Arab Reactions	p. 115
Towards the 'Real War'	p. 123
The Phony War and the Real War over Palestine: May 1948	p. 127
Days of Tihur	p. 131
The Massacre at Tantura	p. 133
The Brigades 'Trail of Blood	p. 138
Campaigns of Revenge	p. 141
The Escalation of the Cleansing Operations: June-September 1948	p. 146
The First Truce	p. 148
Operation Palm Tree	p. 154
In Between Truces	p. 156
The Truce that Wasn't	p. 173
Completing the Job: October 1948-January 1949	p. 179
Operation Hiram	p. 180
Israel's Anti-Repatriation Policy	p. 187
A Mini Empire in the Making	p. 191
Final Cleansing of the South and the East	p. 193
The Massacre in Dawaymeh	p. 195
Occupation and its Ugly Faces	p. 199
Inhuman Imprisonment	p. 200
Abuses Under Occupation	p. 204
Dividing the Spoils	p. 211
Desecration of Holy Sites	p. 216
Entrenching the Occupation	p. 219
The Memoricide of the Nakba	p. 225
The Reinvention of Palestine	p. 225
Virtual Colonialism and the JNF	p. 227
The JNF Resort Parks in Israel	p. 229
Nakba Denial and the 'Peace Process'	p. 235
First Attempts at Peace	p. 237
The Exclusion of 1948 from the Peace Process	p. 239
The Right of Return	p. 241
Fortress Israel	p. 248
The 'Demographic Problem'	p. 249
Epilogue	p. 257
Endnotes	p. 262
Chronology	p. 282
Maps and Tables	p. 288
Bibliography	p. 296
Index	p. 301
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