Ten Myths About Israel – Ilan Pappe

Ten Myths About Israel – Ilan Pappe

Author: Ilan Pappe

Publisher: Verso

Print Length: 192 pages

Genre: Non-Fiction / History, Non-Fiction / Politics & Political Science

Area: Gaza, Middle East, Palestine / Israel

People: Jews

Topic: Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Democracy, Judaism, Land & Property, Myth & Reality, Politics & Power, Zionism

The outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel. The “ten myths”—repeated endlessly in the media, enforced by the military, and accepted without question by the world’s governments—reinforce the regional status quo and include:

• Palestine was an empty land at the time of the Balfour Declaration.
• The Jews were a people without a land.
• There is no difference between Zionism and Judaism.
• Zionism is not a colonial project of occupation.
• The Palestinians left their Homeland voluntarily in 1948.
• The June 1967 War was a war of ‘No Choice’.
• Israel is the only Democracy in the Middle East.
• The Oslo Mythologies
• The Gaza Mythologies
• The Two-State Solution

For students, activists, and anyone interested in better understanding the news, Ten Myths About Israel is another groundbreaking study of the Israel-Palestine conflict from the author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.

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Preface

PART I. FALLACIES OF THE PAST

1. Palestine Was an Empth Land

2. The Jewa Were a People Without a Land

3. Zionism Is Judaism

4. Zionism Is Not Colonialism

5. The Palestinians Voluntarily Left Their Homeland in 1948

6. The June 1967 War Was a War of “No Choice”

PART II. FALLACIES OF THE PRESENT

7. Israel Is The Only Democracy in the Middle East

8. The Oslo Mythologies

9. The Gaza Mythologies

PART III. LOOKING AHEAD

10. The Two-States Solution Is the Only Way Forward

Conclusion: The Settler ColoniTal State of Israel in the Twenty-First Century

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Index

Ilan Pappé is an expatriate Israeli political scientist and historian. He has been teaching in several institutes such as Haifa University, Israel and University of Exeter, England. He founded and directed the Academic Institute for Peace in Givat Haviva, Israel between 1992 to 2000 and was the Chair of the Emil Tuma Institute for Palestine Studies in Haifa between 2000 and 2006. His research focuses on the modern Middle East and in particular the history of Israel and Palestine.

Source: https://arabislamicstudies.exeter.ac.uk/staff/pappe/

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