The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Dr. Ilan Pappe - Part 2

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The present dismal reality unfolding in the Middle East has clear historical roots and a journey into the past may help to illuminate what lies behind the destructive policies of Israel in both Palestine and Lebanon.

Zionism arrived in Palestine in the late 19th as a colonialist movement motivated by national impulses.

The colonisation of Palestine fitted well the interests and policies of the British Empire on the eve of the First World War.

With the backing of Britain, the colonisation project expanded, and became a solid presence on the land after the war and with the establishment of the British mandate in Palestine (which lasted between 1918 and 1948).

While this consolidation took place, the indigenous society underwent, like other societies in the rest of the Arab world, a steady process of establishing a national identity.

But with one difference. While the rest of the Arab world was shaping its political identity through the struggle against European colonialism, in Palestine nationalism meant asserting your collective identity against both an exploitative British colonialism and expansionist Zionism.

Thus, the conflict with Zionism was an additional burden. The pro-Zionist policy of the British mandate there naturally strained the relationship between Britain and the local Palestinian society.

This climaxed in a revolt in 1936 against both London and the expanding Zionist colonisation project.

At the end of November 1947, the UN offered to divide Palestine into two states almost equal in their territorial space. The Jews were only one third of the population by 1947 and most of them had arrived in Palestine only a few years earlier.

The categorical Palestinian refusal to go along with this deal, backed by the Arab League, allowed the Zionist leadership to plan carefully the next step. Between February 1947 and March 1948, a final plan for ethnic cleansing was prepared.

The Zionist leadership defined 80 percent of Palestine (Israel today without the West Bank) as the space for the future state.

This was an area in which one million Palestinians lived next to 600,000 Jews.

The idea was to uproot as many Palestinians as possible. From March 1948 until the end of that year the plan was implemented despite the attempt by some Arab states to oppose it, which failed. Some 750,000 Palestinians were expelled, 531 villages were destroyed and 11 urban neighbourhoods demolished.

Half of Palestine's population was uprooted and half of its villages destroyed. The state of Israel was established in over 80 percent of Palestine, turning Palestinian villages into Jewish settlements and recreation parks, but allowing a small number of Palestinian to remain citizens in it.

The June 1967 war allowed Israel to take the remaining 20 percent of Palestine.

This seizure defeated in a way the ethnic ideology of the Zionist movement. Israel encompassed 100 percent of Palestine, but the state incorporated a large number of Palestinians, the people who Zionists made such an effort to expel in 1948.

The fact that Israel was let off easily in 1948, and not condemned for the ethnic cleansing it committed, encouraged it to ethnically cleanse a further 300,000 Palestinians from the West Bank and the Gaza strip.

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[crazykid567]

No matter what view you have in your head, there are still more Palestinians dying than Israelis in recorded history. PERIOD. More children than ever. Im not a self-hating jew or Anti- Israel. Im simply Anti -Satan. Anti-horror. Anti-Genocide. Anti-Ethinic Cleansing. Anti-torture of children. Anti- ZIONIST!

[sykopath66190]

@corbettcreek1 Then why did they settle amongst the Caananites AFTER Persian King Cyrus the Great led the Hebrews out of Egyptian captivity? Your logic fails you.

[ExRhodesian]

how come the jews get a country what about the whites from Rhodesia, hell Im as racist as any jew, oh yeah I dont control world banking. Sorry just give me a boot up the arse. Wait Mugabe has done that. Well every jew I see I boot up the arse.

[jereuter01]

Anyone without a dog in the fight desirious of learning more about Zionism in the face of Zionist apologist kreplacy3 or 2 or 1's smartass comments below should find the following reading illuminating - Google or go to B & N or Amazon and read excerpts or purchase "At What Price Israel?" authored by Alfred M. Lilienthal, published 1953. It's an eye opener.

[xanderkhaan]

99% of all jews r KAZARS 2) EVRY YR MORE AND MORE ILEGAL SETTLENTS R BEING MADE

3) ISREAL BILUT A BURLIN WALL AND STOLE EVEN MORE LAND

4) ISRAHELL WONT LET PRGANANT WONT WOMEN THR CHECK PONTS

5)THE LAW OF NO RETURN

6) AND ARPATHIED STATE

7) CANNANITES HWERE THERE BEFORE ANY JEW PUT HIS FOOT THERE AND U STOLE THE LAND AND CALLED IT ISRAHELL

8) ISREALL USING PALS AS SHIELDS NOT HAMAS

9) ISRAHELL HAS WIPED PALISTINE OFF THE MAP FOR 60 YRS

[Tom101229]

The Syrian National Congress had forced Faisal to back away from his tentative support of Zionist goals and the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916 made Faisal express doubts on cooperation with the Zionist movement.

The Syrian National Congress wished to absorb Palestine rather than allowing it to be given to the Jewish and Arab Palestinians. And the Sykes-Picot Agreement was contending to give Syria to France (ousting out Faisal as King) and giving Palestine to Britain.

[Tom101229]

Look it doesn't matter what Britain had promised. Britain isn't sovereign over the Palestinian people or the Jewish People. It shouldn't decide on their behalf. Do you think they should?

The way in which peace is promise is through consensus arrangements and agreements.

Faisal-Weizmann Agreement is the only matter that counts, it is a consensus agreement between the de facto leader of the Arab World Faisal and the Zionist leader Weizmann.

[Tom101229]

I met Dr. Pappe once, he conveyed to me he held a long seated self-hatred of himself. Funny though he even contradicts himself. He conveys his parents who are Jewish Germans had fled Nazi Germany and yet he denies there ever was a holocaust.

He also conveyed his addiction to PCP and his few time tries of using LCD.

What makes Pappe very much uncredible is his fellow neo-historian Benny Morris who is a fellow critic of Israel, had stated there was no large scale massacre of Palestinians, ever.

[amandlatoo]

Who wouldn't like such a people? But their greatest enemy is their own people, those who are causing all their strife and ours - 911, murder of JFK, RFK, MLK, etc., and numerous other atrocities throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, and beyond. The problem wasn't the nazis or any such thing, they have been behind it all, and capturing Palestine isn't the ultimate goal. In other words, they're not done.

[amandlatoo]

@amandlatoo and that is because the Jews weren't persecuted like they say they were. Sure, they were disliked, they're always disliked, they're disliked today, but that has much to do with their superior behavior, dishonest practices, and complete disregard for the "goyem."