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Ilan Pappe can go back if Israël follows Egypt
Asa Winstanley - 12.02.2011 02:49
Of the small group of Israeli academics known as the “new historians” Ilan Pappe has been the most vocally critical of the founding ideology of Israel. Beginning in the late 1980s, professors such as Pappe, Benny Morris and Avi Shlaim examined newly-released Israeli archives and came to the conclusion that decades of Israeli history on the 1948 war was mostly propaganda, and that the Palestinian narrative was essentially correct.
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The last chance salon: why Ilan Pappe left Israel
“Out of the Frame”
Ilan Pappe
Pluto Press, 2010
By Asa Winstanley
Of the small group of Israeli academics known as the “new historians” Ilan Pappe has been the most vocally critical of the founding ideology of Israel. Beginning in the late 1980s, professors such as Pappe, Benny Morris and Avi Shlaim examined newly-released Israeli archives and came to the conclusion that decades of Israeli history on the 1948 war was mostly propaganda, and that the Palestinian narrative was essentially correct.
The Palestinians did not “leave their homes” because of the orders of Arab governments as the standard Israeli line had had it. They were in fact driven out at gunpoint by Zionist militia groups such as Haganah, Irgun and Lehi (aka Stern Gang). Many of the 800,000 Palestinian refugees fled from fear of the many massacres the Zionists carried out, possibly the most notorious being at the village of Deir Yassin.
Thus these new historians documented the reality of the Palestinian Nakbah (Catastrophe) from Israel’s own internal sources. The basic facts no longer being under any serious dispute, Benny Morris eventually took another approach. In a now-infamous 2004 interview with Israeli
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broadsheet Ha’aretz, Morris clarified his commitment to Zionism, stating that yes, Israel had carried out ethnic cleansing, massacres (and even rapes) but that there are “circumstances in history that justify ethnic cleansing… A Jewish state would not have come into being without the uprooting of 700,000 Palestinians. Therefore it was necessary to uproot them.”
Although, like Morris, Pappe started out as a leftist Zionist, the full reality of the facts he had uncovered about the Nakbah in his research started a chain of event that led towards anti-Zionism. In Out of the Frame, Pappe narrates this story for the first time.
In 1980 he began his work on 1948 as an Oxford PhD student, studying under renowned Arab historian Albert Hourani. It was Hourani that steered Pappe towards the archives, though he was “unsure of what I would find” (p. 16). The result was a revisionist thesis on the key British role in helping the Zionist movement establish a state through ethnic cleansing. A few years later, Morris published his influential book The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, which detailed this from archival sources (Morris claims it was an unplanned “necessity of war”). When he returned from Oxford, he was faced with what he calls “the [Israeli] phenomenon of Nakbah denial” (p. 22).
Even back in the more hopeful Oslo years, Pappe began to feel a sense of creeping McCarthyism in the Israeli academy. His approach to the history of Palestine-Israel was denounced by Professor Yoav Gelber of Haifa university as “tantamount to treason on the battlefield” (p. 24).
For a while, Pappe was still considered to be within the pale. Arnon Sofer (the leading Israeli demographer who later devised Israel’s West Bank apartheid wall) told him: “Between you and me, within four closed walls, you are one of us. But it is good that you are beautifying Israel’s image abroad” (p. 30). In other words, Pappe was Haifa university’s token radical.
This period of relative openness in the Israeli academy was short-lived. With the outbreak of the second major Palestinian popular uprising in September 2000 (the second intifada), the entire Zionist “left” rallied around the state. “There, at the heart of the Israeli polity, the lost sons were embraced in a process of erasing any ideological differences between left and right in the Jewish state… the very narrow limits of the genuine Jewish peace camp were exposed.” (p. 61, 63).
Pappe recounts the 2000-2001 Katz affair. This was a stage on the road to semi-voluntary exile in Britain. A mature student at Haifa university called Teddy Katz wrote his MA on the 1948 expulsion of Palestinians from villages in the vicinity of Haifa. “From the evidence he collected,” Pappe explains, “Katz concluded that during the conquest of Tantura [village] by Jewish forces in late May 1948 a large number of individuals had been killed, possibly up to 225″ (p. 73). Most of these deaths happened after the village had been captured and disarmed, he wrote. His thesis was based on several years’ worth of research: mainly interviews with surviving witnesses.
Katz’s thesis got a 97 percent grade, but in January 2000 it was picked up by the press. The Israeli army brigade involved eventually took Katz to court during the politically charged atmosphere of December 2000 (the second intifada had began at the end of September). Katz was vilified for a few minor errors even though “none of them challenged the main finding that massive killings of innocent farmers had taken place” (p. 77). Katz was prevented from graduating.
Pappe (who understands Arabic) spent three consecutive days going through 60 hours of Katz’s taped interviews. Pappe’s defence of Katz and his thesis ultimately led to isolation within his own university from 2001-2002 onwards. In open letters, director of the history school Yoav Gelber compared Pappe to a Nazi collaborator. Pappe’s signing on to a 2002 boycott of Israeli universities led to a disciplinary hearing in which he was accused of “defamation”. After a massive influx of international support for Pappe, the university suspended the case, but it was left technically open until he left Israel in 2007.
Pappe’s final internal offensive against Nakbah denial started in his own living room: a last chance salon. He started a home school in which he invited neighbours to look with him at government documents detailing the deliberate Zionist destruction of the Palestinian villages on which their town was built. This ran for a few years, but met its limit in 2006: “The final meeting in my house took place after two Israeli soldiers were captured by Hezbollah… The receptive mood to listen was changed into a jingoism of the worst kind… This was followed by Israel’s genocidal policies in Gaza, and if I needed additional evidence that there was very little hope for change within my society… this bloodshed was that final proof” (pp. 141-2).
On top of this and his isolation within the Israeli academy, there were also death threats to him and his family: “Russian Jews spoke quietly [on the phone,] presenting themselves as members of a local mafia that had received contracts to kill me.” He was even invited onto a live TV chat show to simulate his own court martial – the moderator shouted at him “you are a traitor”. He used the air time to call on viewers to join a Tel Aviv demonstration against the war. “I never appeared on Israeli TV again,” Pappe says (p. 161). In the summer of 2006 he accepted a chair in Exeter University’s history department, where he remains today.
Some sloppy editing mistakes throughout this book mar the experience, and the last couple of chapters just seem to be analysis of the Israel 2008-2009 Gaza massacre and the current situation in Palestine-Israel, rather than anything original about Pappe (maybe he got bored writing about himself). There is little to take particular exception to, but these last two chapters seem unoriginal, almost like filler material. But overall, Out of the Frame is a great read, with some really telling insights.
Pappe emphasises that we should have no illusions that change will come from within Israeli society, as his own bitter dissenter’s experience has shown. He instead emphasises the importance of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel.
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Asa Winstanley is an independent journalist based in London who has lived in and reported from occupied Palestine. He has a book about the Russell Tribunal on Palestine coming out on Pluto Press in 2011. His website is www.winstanleys.org.
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Als pro-Palestijnen over verdrijving van de Palestijnen in 1948 spreken, beroepen zij zich meestal op de boeken van de 'nieuwe historici', zoals de Israeli's Morris en Pappé. Die wilden - gedreven door hun extreem-linkse achtergrond - ook de Palestijnse kant laten horen, maar sloegen volkomen door. Communist Pappé zegt er letterlijk zelf over dat feiten niet interessant zijn, maar dat de underdogpositie veel belangrijker is.
Inmiddels is gebleken dat ze bronmateriaal zelfs vervalst hebben weergegeven (zie verwijzingen onderaan dit artikel). Bovendien zijn de laatste jaren nieuwe archieven vrij gegeven, waardoor hun verhaal nog meer onderuit wordt gehaald. Morris heeft inmiddels afstand genomen van de bewering van doelbewuste verdrijving in zijn eerdere boeken.
Zie verder: '1948 het ware verhaal'
http://www.likud.nl/verhaal1948.html
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| | onzin | lezer - 12.02.2011 15:15
Schaam je, 'likoed nl' dat je niet eens de moeite neemt een geloofwaardig verhaaltje onder je spin te tiepen.
| | Ilan Pappe in Amsterdam, 26-28 january 2007 | A. Bloem - 12.02.2011 19:54
Ilan Pappe lectures and presents his latest book in Amsterdam
Audio, The Electronic Intifada, 3 February 2007
On January 26, Israeli historian Ilan Pappe gave a lecture at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Pappe was in the Netherlands on invitation of United Civilians for Peace and Another Jewish Voice. On January 27 he presented his latest book "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" in ABC Treehouse Gallery and On January 28, he lectured at Desmet in Amsterdam.
http://webdisk.planet.nl/houck006/publiek/album/Lectures/Broadband/Ilan%20Pappe%201.mp3
http://webdisk.planet.nl/houck006/publiek/album/Lectures/Broadband/Ilan%20Pappe%202.mp3
Pappe's book shows that in 1948, the Zionist movement waged a war against the Palestinian people in order to implement its long term plans of ethnic cleansing. The Arab world tried to prevent this cleansing, but was too fragmented, self-centered and ineffective to stop the uprooting of half of Palestine's native population, the destruction of half of its villages and towns and the killing of thousands of its people.
And since that ethnic cleansing was successfully implemented in almost 80% of Palestine without any global or regional repercussions - the ethnic cleansing policy continues ever since 1967 in the remaining 20% of the country. The book argues that since in the eyes of the world - including the State Department and the UN - ethnic cleansing is a crime against humanity, this how we should view the Israeli actions in the past and Israel's policies in the present.
Audio: Stan Houcke
http://www.stanvanhoucke.net/audioblog/
http://www.stanvanhoucke.net/audioblog/pivot/entry.php?id=25#body
http://stanvanhoucke.blogspot.com/
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Related Links
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006)
Palestine 2007: Genocide in Gaza, Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank, Ilan Pappe (11 January 2007)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ethnic_Cleansing_of_Palestine_(Book)
| | Kein Berufsverbot für Ilan Pappe (2002) | Non-proliferatie - 12.02.2011 21:38
Solidarität mit Dr. Ilan Pappe - 24.06.2002
Weltweite Solidaritätskampagne gegen die Entlassung des postzionistischen Historikers Ilan Pappe
Aktionskreis kein Berufsverbot für Ilan Pappe
Ein postzionistischer israelischer Professor ist in Gefahr seinen Job zu verlieren. Eine internationale Solidaritätskampagne versucht das zu verhindern.
Angriff auf die Wissenschaftsfreiheit in Israel
Dass eine Gesellschaft im Krieg nicht nur nach Außen sondern auch im Innern die Freiheiten einschränkt, kann man zur Zeit in Israel beobachten. Während für Palästinenser in den besetzten Gebieten das Kriegsrecht gilt, gab es im israelischen Kernland eine parlamentarische Demokratie. Eine kleine Minderheit von Intellektuellen und Linken konnte auch ihre dezidiert antizionistischen Auffassungen äußern. Das könnte sich jetzt ändern. Im Zeichen des innerisraelischen Rechtsrucks und der Mobilisierung gegen die Palästinenser wird die Toleranz gegen Abweichler geringer. Das bekommt der Dr. Ilan Pappe zur Zeit zu spüren. Dem Politikwissenschafter von der Universität Haifa droht die Entfernung von seinem Lehrstuhl, weil er sich für die Freiheit der Wissenschaft eingesetzt hat. Er hatte sich als einziger Professor hinter den Studenten Theodor Katz gestellt, der im Jahr 2000 wegen seiner Magisterarbeit disqualifiziert worden war. Dort hatte er ein Massaker eines zionistischen Militärverbandes während der israelischen Staatsgründung im Jahr 1948 nachgewiesen. 200 arabische Zivilisten waren nach den Forschungen von Katz in dem arabischen Dorf Tantura ermordet worden. Die Universitätsstellen bestritten nicht den Wahrheitsgehalt der Forschungen, doch sie nannten die Studie von Katz gefährlich für den Staat und disqualifizierten ihn.
Katz und Pappe gehören beide zu den postzionistischen Historikern, die in den 80er und 90er Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts darin gingen, manche Gründungsmythen des Staates Israel infrage zu stellen. Dazu gehörte die Vorstellung, dass Israel vor der zionistischen Besiedlung ein ?Volk ohne Land" gewesen sei. Außerdem deckte die postzionistische Strömung zahlreiche Massaker der israelischen in der Gründungsphase des israelischen Staates auf, die bis dahin als palästinensische Propaganda abgetan wurde. Pappe wies 1994 in seinen Forschungen einen weiteren Mythos der israelischen Staatsgründung zurück. Bisher hieß es die israelische Lesart, dass die Palästina durch die Ablehnung des UNO Teilungsplans 1947/48 für die Entstehung des Nahostkonflikts selbst verantwortlich sind. Pappe konnte nachweisen, dass der Plan von israelischer Seite mindestens genau so stark torpediert wurde. Nach den Osloer Verträgen wurden postzionistische Sichtweisen in Israel immerhin angehört und kamen als Minderheitenpositionen sogar in israelische Schulbücher. Doch diese Toleranz ist jetzt zu Ende. Manche Wissenschaftler haben schnell die Seiten gewechselt. Zu ihnen gehört der Historiker Benny Morris, der einer der führenden Postzionisten war, deshalb seinen Job bei der Jerusalem Post verlor und an den Rand des Wissenschaftsbetrieb gedrängt wurde. Mittlerweile hat er seine Ansichten von damals widerrufen und verkündet auf Vortragsreisen in den USA und Deutschlands die offizielle Version von den friedensunfähigen Palästinensern. Pappe hingegen ist seinen postzionistischen Ansichten bis heute treu geblieben. Das Verfahren gegen ihn vergleicht er mit den Verfolgungen der McCarthy-Ära in den USA. Mittlerweile hat eine internationale Kampagne gegen seine Entlassung begonnen. Unter dem Motto ?Unterstützt die akademische Freiheit" haben fast 2000 Wissenschaftler, Journalisten und Politiker aus aller Welt ihre Solidarität mit Pappe bekundet.
http://de.indymedia.org/2002/06/24777.shtml
| | Apartheid regime Israël and ethnic cleasing | Ilan Pappé - 13.02.2011 00:12
INSIGHTS ON THE APARTHEID REGIME IN THE STATE OF ISRAEL
Videos of the Stuttgart Conference
As part of the international campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel, the Palestinian Committee of Stuttgart organised a conference on November 26-28, 2010, titled: “One Democratic State in Palestine with Equal Rights for all its Citizens”.
Ilan Pappe - “Ethnic cleansing in Palestine and the right of return for Palestinians”
Haidar Eid – “Analogies between Apartheid South Africa and Israel and the current situation in Palestine”
Ali Abunimah - “The one state solution as a perspective for a just peace”
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http://www.silviacattori.net/article1429.html
| | I. Pappé struggle against Israeli McCarthyism | Raymond Deane - 13.02.2011 02:00
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Book review: An Israeli academic's struggle against McCarthyism
Raymond Deane, The Electronic Intifada, 17 November 2010
The Israeli historian Ilan Pappé's new memoir Out of the Frame (Pluto Press, London and New York, 2010) is subtitled "The Struggle for Academic Freedom in Israel." This manages to link Pappé's personal struggle against Israeli McCarthyism with a broader struggle for human and political rights of which "academic freedom" is merely one aspect.
In his formative years, Pappé viewed Israeli life "through a leftist Zionist prism, which allowed a liberal pluralist critique of the ideology of the state of Israel, but inevitably vindicated its major precepts" (14). In 1979 he went to Oxford University where he researched the 1948 war (Israel's "War of Independence," the Palestinians' Nakba or catastrophe) (15). His 1984 doctoral dissertation claimed "that Britain played a major role in allowing the Zionist movement to found a state in Palestine through the ethnic cleansing of its indigenous people" (17). Simultaneously, Benny Morris and Avi Shlaim published books challenging the accepted version of 1948. Together with Simha Flapan, this group became collectively known as the "new historians" (23).
In Israel, at Haifa University, Pappé's stubborn attempts to "connect ... Zionist ideology and past policies with present atrocities" (177) and to combat "Nakba denial" (22 etc.) led to accusations of treason and the first "anonymous ... and poisonous" telephone calls (22-4). In compensation, he won "the confidence of, and access to, Palestinian political and cultural scenes," meeting the late Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat in Tunis in 1993, and becoming friendly with the leading Palestinian intellectual, the late Edward Said (26).
Feeling more secure after receiving tenure in the early 1990s, he joined the communist-socialist party Hadash (30) as a "non-affiliated" member (68).
In 1995 the assassination of Yithzak Rabin (the Israeli premier who had signed the Oslo peace agreement with Arafat) and the election of Benjamin Netanyahu as his successor darkened the political climate and saw a steady increase in the militarization of academia and the media. The outbreak of the second Palestinian intifada or uprising in 2000 intensified this process (44). Many Israeli dissidents, such as Benny Morris, were tamed and transformed into "intellectual eunuchs" (57). Pappé found himself in the position of a pariah (63), his contention that a focus on the Nakba was imperative to a meaningful peace process becoming quite simply unthinkable as the "transfer option" -- the mass expulsion of Palestinians -- acquired new legitimacy (67).
It was at this juncture that the Katz Affair erupted. Teddy Katz was a liberal Zionist postgraduate student whose masters thesis on the 1948 war, under Pappé's supervision, originally received a 97 percent rating. Katz had implicated the Israeli army's Alexandroni Brigade in an alleged massacre of some 250 Palestinians at the village of Tantura. Veterans of the brigade sued. At the trial in December 2000, Katz, under intolerable pressure and having suffered a heart attack, retracted his allegation. The judge rejected his subsequent attempt to retract this retraction. Haifa University conducted a commission of inquiry at which Pappé unsuccessfully defended Katz, and the thesis was disqualified (71-85). A subsequent disciplinary procedure against Pappé for "relentless defamation of the University" (95) was suspended -- but not annulled -- after a massive national and international campaign in his favor (97).
At this point Pappé interrupts his narrative with a short story, "The Best Runner in the Class," originally published by The Electronic Intifada in May 2007. The tale arrestingly dramatizes many of the issues surrounding the Katz affair, and would make a harrowing film. It features an inquisitive Israeli student, Yaacov, with whom Pappé explicitly identifies himself (109). More interesting is a further identification to which Pappé doesn't allude -- with the student's supervisor Musalem, "the only practicing Palestinian historian in Israel" who "unconsciously us[es] his student as an extension of his own mind."
No fiction could invent the weird campaign of intimidation to which Pappé was subjected in the wake of the Katz affair and his signature in April 2002 of an international petition calling for the boycott of Israeli academic institutions (93). A lecture-hall where he was to have held a conference was locked and guarded by armed security men. Redefined as a symposium, the conference eventually took place in a cafeteria (127-8). His colleagues were warned against socializing with him, and his students were "deemed guilty by association" with him. Finally, during 2005-06, he was barred from the public space "so that an intellectual or historiographical dialogue with my own society became impossible" (132).
Pappé moved to Kiryat Tivon on the edge of the Jezreel valley (Marj ibn Amr) and founded his "home university," lecturing weekly on the 1948 ethnic cleansing to up to 70 interested but skeptical listeners (134). This relatively receptive mood evaporated with the 2006 war against Lebanon. Israel's increasingly genocidal policies against Gaza and a renewed campaign of death threats against Pappé forced him to leave Israel. In 2007 he took up a chair in the history department of the University of Exeter in "decent" but "introverted" England (163). Here he has continued his campaign for a single democratic state, advocating a sustained international campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) and "a very tough dialogue with a state and society that wish to be part of the 'civilized' world, while remaining racist and supremacist" (199).
The title Out of the Frame refers to Pappe's inability to continue functioning within an Israeli Jewish framework, but also recalls Out of Place, Edward Said's great 1999 memoir. Pappé's introductory chapter momentarily leads us to expect a similar process of childhood-based introspection into themes of identity and exile, particularly when he evokes his German/Jewish/Israeli background in which "we mistook the pathetic group of pine trees that defined our yard for the Black Forest" and his father "singled out one particular wadi [valley] ... in Mount Carmel ... as a Little Switzerland" (2). However, neither introspection nor stylish elegance à la Said is Pappé's forte, not even in the interpolated short story. Matters aren't helped by Pluto Press's shoestring approach to copy editing, which allows for many distracting misprints and occasional incoherencies (English isn't Pappé's native tongue).
Nonetheless, this book makes riveting reading. Pappé refers to his "modest sense of achievement in that many of my Palestinian friends mourned my departure [from Israel], and kindly bestowed on me gifts -- that I will bring back when I return -- and honors that I do not deserve" (166). Readers of Out of the Frame will be convinced that he fully deserves such honors, and that if he does one day return to Israel, he will have contributed much towards making it a place worth returning to.
Raymond Deane is an Irish composer and political activist.
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Israeli Historian Moves to Britain Citing Threats
A prominent Israeli historian has announced he is moving to Britain because he has found it increasingly difficult to keep living in Israel. Ilan Pappe is a senior lecturer at the University of Haifa and a vocal critic of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians. Pappe says he receives threatening phones call every day and that there have been attempts to expel him from the university. In Britain, Pappe will teach at Exeter University.
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Alan Dershowitz Admits Lobbying Against Tenure For Norman Finkelstein
Meanwhile here in this country, one of academia’s most prominent critics of Israel—Norman Finkelstein—is facing an uphill battle to receive tenure at Depaul University where he has taught for six years. His tenure has been approved at the departmental and college level but the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has opposed it. A final decision is expected to be made by May. Finkelstein has accused Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz of being responsible for leading the effort to deny him tenure. In an interview with the Harvard Crimson, Dershowitz admitted that he had sent a letter to DePaul faculty members lobbying against Finkelstein’s tenure.
http://www.democracynow.org/2007/4/6/headlines#15
| | Doc: The sons of Eilaboun (Eilabun) | Timothy Hanes - 13.02.2011 03:24
The Sons of Eilaboun (Eilabun)
On October 30, 1948, the Israeli Army marched into the northern Galilee village of Eilaboun (Eilabun). My uncle Badia Zreiq and 17 other men from the village, who had been hiding with the rest of the village in two churches, were marched to the village square. The rest of the village residents were marched out of the village to the Lebanese border.
The chosen men in the square stood waiting, hands on their heads while the Israeli soldiers huddled in discussion. An officer stepped forward,
“We need three men,” the Israeli officer shouted to. Three men stood up and were marched off with the soldiers. Moments later, three shots were heard. The soldiers returned,
“Three more men,” Three more shots. And so on, until only three men remained in the square, my uncle Badia among them. These three were lined up and they shot at point blank range with an automatic rifle in the square.
Even now more than fifty years later my father cannot recall the incidents of that day without sobbing. He not only lost his brother, but he, and everyone in his village became refugees. When they finally returned to their village, they scarcely recognized it. Everything of value had been looted. What the soldiers could not carry off they destroyed.
Sadly, the elderly residents of Eilaboun are not the only ones that repeat such stories to their children and grandchildren. The story of Eilaboun was repeated hundreds of times across the land that today is called Israel. The killing expulsion and looting of these villages was a tactic that was spelled out in a document called Plan Dalet developed by the high command of the Israeli Army to rid the future State of Israel of its Arab inhabitants, which it saw as a threat.
The sons of Eilaboun (Eilabun) tells the story of the human toll that Plan Dalet claimed on in a single one of these villages. The story is told through the mouths of the men and women who witnessed the atrocities committed on that fall day in 1948 – men and women who are determined not to let the horrors of this brutal plan be forgotten. It is a story - at times brutal, at times inspiring - that traces the struggle of the people of Eilaboun to hold onto their existence, their history, and their pride against a world that is intent to cover up the events that changed their lives forever.
By Timothy Hanes
http://SonsOfEilaboun.com/story
http://SonsOfEilaboun.com/trailer (intro: I. Pappé)
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http://www.palestineremembered.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Dalet
| | Gaza in Crisis, Refelections on Israel's war | N. Chomsky & I. Pappé - 13.02.2011 03:53
In Gaza in Crisis, Refelections on Israel's war against the Palestinians
Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé, two of the conflict’s most insightful critical commentators, survey the fallout from Israel’s conduct in Gaza and place it into the context of Israel’s longstanding occupation of Palestine.
ISRAEL'S OPERATION CAST LEAD was described by a UN fact-finding mission (the Goldstone report) as “a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population.” The winter 2008–09 assault claimed the lives of 1,400 Palestinians and thrust the crisis in Gaza into the center of the debate about the Israel/Palestine conflict.
The crippling siege continues to block access to construction materials desperately needed to rebuild in the wake of the Israeli attack and prevents people from leaving the Strip even for life threatening illnesses. With the constant humiliation of living a life punctuated by regular military incursions and ubiquitous checkpoints, Gaza has come to be known as the world’s largest open-air prison.
Following Israel’s naval attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla—a humanitarian aid mission aimed at breaking the unbearable siege—international observers are increasingly questioning the logic of Israeli military aggression, and worldwide public support for Palestine is growing.
http://www.gazaincrisis.org/
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Excerpt
The following excerpt is from the chapter "The Ghettoization of Palestine," an interview with Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé, conducted by Frank Barat.
Barat: The word apartheid is more and more often used by NGO's and charities to describe Israel's actions towards the Palestinians (in Gaza, the OPT but also in Israel itself). Is the situation in Palestine and Israel comparable to Apartheid South Africa?
Ilan Pappé: There are similarities and dissimilarities. The colonialist history has many chapters in common and some of the features of the Apartheid system can be found in the Israeli policies towards its own Palestinian minority and towards those in the occupied territories. Some aspects of the occupation, however, are worse then the apartheid reality of South Africa and some aspects in the lives of Palestinian citizens in Israel, are not as bad as they were in the hey days of Apartheid. The main point of comparison to my mind is political inspiration. The anti-Apartheid movement, the ANC, the solidarity networks developed throughout the years in the West, should inspire a more focused and effect pro-Palestinian campaign. This is why there is a need to learn the history of the struggle against Apartheid, much more than dwell too long on comparing the Zionist and Apartheid systems.
Noam Chomsky: There can be no definite answer to such questions. There are similarities and differences. Within Israel itself, there is serious discrimination, but it's very far from South African Apartheid. Within the occupied territories, it's a different story. In 1997, I gave the keynote address at Ben-Gurion University in a conference on the anniversary of the 1967 war. I read a paragraph from a standard history of South Africa. No comment was necessary.
Looking more closely, the situation in the OT differs in many ways from Apartheid. In some respects, South African Apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true. To mention one example, White South Africa depended on Black labor. The large majority of the population could not be expelled. At one time Israel relied on cheap and easily exploited Palestinian labor, but they have long ago been replaced by the miserable of the earth from Asia, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere. Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear. And it is no secret that the policies that have taken shape accord well with the recommendations of Moshe Dayan right after the 1967 war : Palestinians will "continue to live like dogs, and whoever wishes may leave." More extreme recommendations have been made by highly regarded left humanists in the United States, for example Michael Walzer of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton and editor of the democratic socialist journal Dissent, who advised 35 years ago that since Palestinians are "marginal to the nation," they should be "helped" to leave. He was referring to Palestinian citizens of Israel itself, a position made familiar more recently by the ultra-right Avigdor Lieberman, and now being picked up in the Israeli mainstream. I put aside the real fanatics, like Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, who declares that Israel never kills civilians, only terrorists, so that the definition of "terrorist" is "killed by Israel"; and Israel should aim for a kill ratio of 1000 to zero, which means "exterminate the brutes" completely. It is of no small significance that advocates of these views are regarded with respect in enlightened circles in the US, indeed the West. One can imagine the reaction if such comments were made about Jews.
http://www.gazaincrisis.org/?p=4
http://www.scribd.com/doc/40591291/Gaza-in-Crisis-Excerpt-by-Noam-Chomsky-Ilan-Pappe-with-Frank-Barat
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Noam Chomsky is one of the world's foremost social critics, and one of its most prolific. He is author of Failed States and Hegemony or Survival, both New York Times bestsellers, and most recently of Hopes and Prospects. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, and is institute professor emeritus in the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.
"Palestine and U.S. Foreign Policy," a talk by Noam Chomsky, given April 2010 at Brown University:
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Ilan Pappé is professor of history at the University of Exeter in the UK, where he is also co-director of the Exeter Center for Ethno-Political Studies, and director of the Palestine Studies Centre. He is author of the bestselling The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oneworld), A History of Modern Palestine (Cambridge), The Israel/Palestine Question (Routledge), and is a long time political activist. For more information, please visit the Ilan Pappé Facebook page.
"The Nakba of Palestine" a talk by Ilan Pappé given in 2008 at the Al-Awda Right to Return Coalition's international convention:
http://www.gazaincrisis.org/?p=3
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| | @Likud,nl -Efraim Karsh-IDF majoor (bron) | lekkere bron/weinig wol - 13.02.2011 08:09
Efraim Karsh
"After acquiring his first academic degree in modern Middle Eastern history, he was a research analyst for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), where he attained the rank of major."
(..)
In response to one particular attack by Karsh on the work of the New Historians, Benny Morris said that:
"Efraim Karsh's article (...) is a mélange of distortions, half-truths, and plain lies that vividly demonstrates his profound ignorance of both the source material (...) and the history of the Zionist-Arab conflict. It does not deserve serious attention or reply. [9]
Reviewing Fabricating Israeli History, Morris later said:
But this is Karsh's way, to belabor minor points while completely ignoring, and hiding from his readers, the main pieces of evidence. It is a measure of Karsh's ignorance of what actually went on in the Middle East in 1948 that he writes (p. 97) of "the Arab attack on the newly-established State of Israel, in which Transjordan's Arab Legion participated." Quite simply, it did not. Karsh employs his usual method of focusing on the one document that seems to uphold his argument-often while twisting its real purport-while simply ignoring the mas of documents that undercut it. [10]
9) Morris, 1996, "Undeserving of a Reply", The Middle East Quarterly
10) Benny Morris, "Refabricating 1948", review of Fabricating Israeli History: The "New Historians." by Efraim Karsh, Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 27, No. 2. (Winter, 1998), pp. 81-95.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efraim_Karsh
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Volgens (Likud.nl bron) Efraim Karsh zijn de Israëli's voornamelijk slachtoffer.
Interview I, Pappé en Efraim Karsh
http://skynews-clips.videoloungetv.com/public/skynews/latest/IsraelDebate_181006_0900.wmv
| | Israeli historian Ilan Pappe | democracynow! - 13.02.2011 09:46
April 23, 2002
Ariel Sharon Plans to Annex Half of the West Bank:
A Debate On the History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Zionism
http://www.archive.org/download/dn2002-0423/dn2002-0423-1_64kb.mp3
Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres Sunday confirmed a report that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon wants to annex half of the West Bank under an unpublished plan for the Palestinian territories that he is drawing up with close advisers.
Following a report in the London Telegraph, Peres confirmed in an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press that Sharon is suggesting Israel annex half of the West Bank as an "interim agreement." Peres says he doesn’t think that is a final solution.
Meanwhile, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports Sharon angrily declared Sunday at his weekly cabinet meeting that the Israeli government will not discuss the removal of any Israeli settlements on Palestinian land until the next elections in October 2003. Banging his hand on the table for emphasis, he said there would also be no such discussion after those elections if he is reelected.
The subject was raised when a Labor Party minister asked why the government doesn’t adopt Israeli Army officer recommendations to evacuate isolated settlements. According to an Israeli news program, senior officers are arguing that isolated settlements in the Gaza Strip have become tremendous security burdens, requiring a regiment of soldiers to protect each one.
Today on Democracy Now! we will have a discussion on the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, looking at the expanding Israeli settlements on Palestinian lands, but also going back earlier, to the 1948 war and the roots of the Zionist movement.
Guests:
Ilan Pappe, senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Haifa University and author of "The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict."
Meir Pail, professor of military history, former Knesset member and former military officer, speaking to us from Tel Aviv.
Norman Finkelstein, lecturer at De Paul University in Chicago and author of several books including "The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering (Published by Verso). "Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict". His earlier book "A Nation on Trial on Daniel Goldhagen’s Hitler’s Willing Executioners" was named a notable book for 1998 by The New York Times Book Review.
http://www.democracynow.org/2002/4/23/ariel_sharon_plans_to_annex_half
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July 20, 2006
Israeli Professor in Haifa Blasts "Reckless" Assault on Lebanon
As the Israeli assault on Lebanon enters its ninth day, Hezbollah is continuing to fire rockets into Northern Israel. We go to Haifa to speak with Israeli historian and author Ilan Pappe about the crisis.
To discuss the latest developments in Gaza, we’re joined by Dr. Mona El-Farra, a physician and community activist in northern Gaza, also a health development consultant for Gaza’s Union of Health Work Committees.
Ralph Nader, in the United States, the U.S. press very much backing off what’s happening in Gaza, as they focus on Lebanon.
http://www.archive.org/download/dn2006-0720/dn2006-0720-1_64kb.mp3
http://www.democracynow.org/2006/7/20/israeli_professor_in_haifa_blasts_reckless
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