ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINE

‘Ilan Pappe is Israel’s bravest, most principled, most incisive historian.’

– John Pilger

‘Ilan Pappe has written an extraordinary book of profound relevance to the past, present, and future of Israel/Palestine relations. Anyone concerned with peace and justice for these two peoples needs to read and reflect upon this brave, honest, and illuminating exposure of the crimes committed against the Palestinians in the course of establishing the state of Israel in 1948, and since.’

– Richard Falk, Professor of International Law and Practice, Princeton University

‘If there is to be real peace in Palestine/Israel, the moral vigour and intellectual clarity of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine will have been a major contributor to it.’

– Ahdaf Soueif, author of The Map of Love

‘This is an extraordinary book - a dazzling feat of scholarly synthesis and Biblical moral clarity and humaneness.’

– Walid Khalidi, Former Senior Research Fellow Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

‘Fresh insights into a world historic tragedy, related by a historian of genius.’

– George Galloway MP

‘Groundbreaking research into a well-kept Israeli secret. A classic of historical scholarship on a taboo subject by one of Israel's foremost New Historians.’

– Ghada Karmi, author of In Search of Fatima

‘Ilan Pappe is out to fight against Zionism, whose power of deletion has driven a whole nation not only out of its homeland but out of historic memory as well. A detailed, documented record of the true history of that crime, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine puts an end to the Palestinian "Nakbah" and the Israeli "War of Independence" by so compellingly shifting both paradigms.’

– Anton Shammas, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern Literature, University of Michigan

‘An instant classic. Finally we have the authoritative account of an historic event, which continues to shape our world today, and drives the conflict in the Middle East. Pappe is the only historian who could have told it, and he has done so with supreme command of the facts, elegance, and compassion. The publication of this book is a landmark event.’

– Karma Nabulsi, research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University

‘The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine offers a powerful account of the plan to forcibly evict the Palestinians to create an exclusively Jewish state. Painting a thoroughly detailed picture of the unfolding 1948 events, Ilan Pappe insightfully replaces the paradigm of war with that of ethnic cleansing, thus contributing to an alternative narrative of the catastrophe, including its international legal implications. This courageous J’Accuse from an Israeli historian refutes the ongoing denials and repressions that inevitably come to haunt every peace initiative. This painful journey into the archives is a must read, especially for all those willing to embark on imagining a just and truthful reconciliation.’

– Ella Shohat, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, New York University

‘The standard Israeli narrative of al Nakba in the Israeli conquest of Palestine in 1948, which has been the staple of the Zionist conventional wisdom, fed to the West for over five decades, received a coup de grace by the publication of the new book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe, one of the foremost Israeli new historians.

The early exposÈ of Simha Flapan, the careful research of Avi Shlaim on powers' collusion, the ruthless chronology of Benny Morris, new readings in Israeli files and the heart-wrenching Palestinian oral narrative of their dispossession, long been denied by the Israelis, have all been threaded brilliantly by Ilan Pappe in one composite picture of the largest, longest and continuous ethnic cleaning in modern history.

The fact that such a major event, indeed a crime against humanity, remains buried or denied for so long, merely demonstrates the power of the deception and absolute lack of remorse by the perpetrators.

Here, Pappe traces the ethnic cleansing from a hidden wish to a practical plan to ruthless destruction and dispossession to a major campaign to solidify the spoils of war and to justify this crime by blaming the victims.

For anyone who follows the news of today (and who can avoid it?), this is an essential reading of this most tragic plight of the Palestinians, which has lasted 58 years and counting. The sobering conclusion after reading this remarkable work is that no peace will prevail without reversing the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, sooner than later.’

– Salman Abu Sitta, researcher and author; President, Palestine Land Society.

‘If there is to be real peace in Palestine/Israel, the moral vigour and intellectual clarity of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine will have been a major contributor to it.’ – Ahdaf Soueif, author of The Map of Love

‘This is an extraordinary book - a dazzling feat of scholarly synthesis and Biblical moral clarity and humaneness.’ – Walid Khalidi, Former Senior Research Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

‘An instant classic. Finally we have the authoritative account of an historic event, which continues to shape our world today, and drives the conflict in the Middle East. Pappe is the only historian who could have told it, and he has done so with supreme command of the facts, elegance, and compassion. The publication of this book is a landmark event.’ – Karma Nabulsi, research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University

‘Ilan Pappe has written an extraordinary book that is of profound relevance to the past, present, and future of Israel/Palestine relations. Anyone concerned with peace and justice for these two peoples needs to read and reflect upon this brave, honest, and illuminating exposure of the crimes committed against the Palestinians in the course of establishing the state of Israel in 1948, and since.’ – Richard Falk, Professor of International Law and Practise, Princeton University

‘Ilan Pappe is out to fight against Zionism, whose power of deletion has driven a whole nation not only out of its homeland but out of historic memory as well. A detailed, documented record of the true history of that crime, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine puts an end to the Palestinian “Nakbah” and the Israeli “War of Independence” by so compellingly shifting both paradigms.’ – Anton Shammas, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern Literature, University of Michigan