The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Paperback

"The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" by Ilan Pappé is a highly controversial and influential historical account that meticulously argues for the systematic expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Drawing on recently declassified Israeli archival material, Pappé contends that the displacement of nearly a million Palestinians and the destruction of over 400 villages were not accidental byproducts of war, but rather the result of a deliberate and pre-planned strategy by Zionist leaders, particularly David Ben-Gurion, to create an ethnically homogenous Jewish state. The book challenges the traditional Israeli narrative of the war and calls for an international acknowledgment of what Pappé identifies as an act of ethnic cleansing.