The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
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A voice of conscience for Palestine
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Ilan Pappe's The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine is a book that should have been written 60 years ago. How is it that history can be so Stalinized that to speak the truth about it is a radical act? In the case of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, the disparity between the lie and the truth is so vast that many refuse to accept even the possibility that their opinions, values, and thoughts on the matter are founded on a complete and utter lie. In 1948 the Zionist leadership of Israel expelled and massacred the native Palestinian population. For 60 years the growing millions of refugees have been denied access to their land, homes, and of course the loved ones murdered by Zionist troops, and refused compensation for their losses.
Pappe's book is an account of the "war" of 1948 from the perspective of Israeli military archives and oral testimony. It is a history of what really happened in 1948 and 1949, and the reason the "peace process" in the Middle East has nothing to do with real peace. Pappe recounts the atrocities committed by the Zionists in their zeal to establish a Jewish-only state: the terror, intimidation, murder, and rape that accompanied such a 'high' cause. It is a disturbing account of the genesis of evil (ponerogenesis) in social movements; of corruption in high places; of ruthless and inhuman behavior and a stunning lack of collective conscience.
Where did the Zionist movement go wrong? Pappe identifies the root cause briefly in a description of the callous nature of some of the IDF leaders and soldiers. He is describing psychopaths (as defined by Robert Hare, who wrote Without Conscience). When social movements fail to identify pathological behavior as such, the moral content of the group's ideology is twisted and corrupted to achieve goals the complete opposite of original intent. And the result is given perfect expression in the legacy the Zionists have left in their wake.
Ilan Pappe wrote this book because no one else did. His voice of conscience is a testament to the voice of truth and good that refuses to be trammeled by the callous and power-hungry. |
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