The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Ilan Pappé

For contemporary as well as for later historians, between the 30th of March and the 15th of May, 200 villages were occupied and their inhabitants expelled. This is a fact that must be repeated.

I have no illusion that it will take more than this book to reverse a reality that demonizes the people who have been colonized, expelled, and occupied, and glorifies the very people who colonized, expelled, and occupied.

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