Since the Holocaust it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In our communicative world few modern catastrophes are concealed from the public eye. & yet Ilan Pappe unveils one such crime has been erased from the global public memory: the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in 1948. The pervasive denial of the Nakbah as Palestinians call the catastrophe that befell them is still a mystery today. But why is it denied & by whom? The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" offers an investigation of this mystery & Pappe puts forward a ground-breaking
- if controversial
- interpretation of the relationship of Nakbah to the Palestine-Israeli conflict naming Nakbah as the conflicts very origin. Portraying Israeli-Palestine relations in a revolutionary new light this book is guaranteed to spark fierce debate throughout the world."