In fact, the distinguished Israeli author and historian Ilan Pappe in his new book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, goes beyond Jimmy Carter’s accusation of Israeli apartheid. He flawlessly documents the case for a planned, methodical expulsion of 800,000 Palestinians following the 1948 partitioning and continuing through the present.
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
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This ethnic cleansing, these crimes against humanity, were part of Plan D (Dalet in Hebrew), that were finalized on March 10, 1948, not as part of the “War for Independence,” but as a short-term combat goal for early Israeli army units under David Ben-Gurion’s leadership. The same Ben-Gurion Pappe coincidentally calls “the architect of ethnic cleansing.” By the way architect, statesman Netanyahu was born in October of 1949, just in time for the gore.
This long-standing Zionist plan that included the expulsion of 800,000 Palestinians, Pappe argues with abundant detail, was created to manufacture an ethnically pure Jewish state. To support this claim, he presents first all the accepted international and UN definitions of ethnic cleansing, and then a painstaking detailing of depopulation of hundreds of villages, and the forced expulsion of the hundreds of thousands of native Arabs from their country.
The book is almost too painful to read, but not any more painful than it is to live in Palestine then as now, or even for one watching from as far as the United States or anywhere in the world. The acts against Palestinians included everything from poisoning of water with typhoid to mass roundups and murders of town citizens, including frequent rapes of women, bulldozing of homes and whole villages.
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