Bosnia is another case, awful case when the entire world acted blind. I only saw few footages many years ago and I can’t erase it from my memory. Bosnia, Burma, IEgore were shedding tears of blood and nobody heard them 😭😭😭😭😭
I was born into a jewish family and though we weren't religious I had zionism and jewish identity shoved down my throat. I also suffered my share of antisemetic bullying at school. As a young man I went to live in Israel and I served in the IDF. Gradually over the years I felt more and more troubled by the treatment of the Palestinians and started to question the narrative we have been fed for all of our lives. By the time I read this book I already had dramatically changed my views but this was the final nail in the coffin, I had no idea the extent of the injustice done in 1948. It's horrific. Most jews and zionists really have no idea about this which feeds into their anti Palestinian attitudes.
Danny, you and the other ignorant good Jews can still do the right thing now for the Palestinians. Haven't they suffered enough injustice for the past 75 years? It is not enough to say you feel sorry for them and do nothing about it. Spread the truth, fight for the truth. There will be no real peace until justice prevails.
@@MaplesGoneMad "other ignorant good Jews" are you calling me ignorant? I have read many books now on this topic all in line with Pape's book plus numerous UA-cam videos. So Im certainly not ignorant. I am spreading the word what do you think I am doing making this contribution here? I have constant difficult debates with Jewish friends and family and have broken relationships and friendships as a result.
Hello Danny, i appreciate you. I am a palestinian and always wondered about the other point of view. Me and my family talk about it alot. We came to the conclusion that it must be alot of brainwashing at a young age also alot of hiding of whats really going on to your neighbors. I know it must be hard trying to talk to your community or you will be labeled self hating. Thanks for your comment and open mindedness. Hopefully we could find peace one day
@@ElNoons Thanks for your reply! The more we can talk openly and in a civilised manner as fellow human beings the better then chance of a future peace. I can assure you most Jews dont know about the ethnic cleansing that happened in 48. We are taught that the land was practically empty and that the Arab nations waged war on Israel and the Palestinians Fled. As a Jew you can live your whole life believing this and that its your historical homeland which is also a spurious claim. In the absence of balanced education we are all potential victims to propaganda.
I've read the Israelis actually thought the Palestinians would "just go to other Arab countries". My friends mother still mourns the loss of her home in Palestine. We need to remember many Palestinians had land with olive groves etc. - it wasn't just houses. Many of them were kicked off their land because they didn't have "paperwork" proving the land, house etc. was theirs. Most people's families had lived on the land for generations and you didn't need "paperwork" back then.
@@StephenHeinerPlease be aware that Palestinians are not "Arab" by blood, as in originally from the Arabic peninsula. Palestinians are predominantly of local Levantine origin, the descendants of the Canaanites, The Palestinians, same as the rest of MENA countries outside the Arabic peninsula, countries like Morocco, Algeria, Tunesia, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, are not "Arab" genetically. They are still at their rightfull place, not 'replaced', still predominantly of local origin. The Islamic conquest did NOT replace the millions of indigenous people. Still should not be compared the European /old world migrations to the Americas. Its not the same. The ancestors of Palestinians were once Jewish and later on they became christian and some converted after to Islam. So by calling them."Arab" the Zay onist try to give the false impression (in a sneaky way), that Palestinians are not indigenous to the Levant and should go "back to Arabia' while all the genetic studies show otherwise. They are not "Arabs'
@@MariaNI-yf1bz Your premise is faulty. "The Palestinian people are Arabs who live-and have lived throughout history-in a certain geographical region in the Middle East." They were Bedouin tribes who settled in that area after Rome destroyed Israel - more than 2,000 years ago. You can verify this by simply googling it...
@@MariaNI-yf1bz Wasn't it the 20th century Arab Nationalist movement that popularized the use of the word "Arab" to describe all native Arabic-speakers regardless of genetic origin?
This book by Arab propogandist is so one-sided and an Arab propaganda. They didn't even give one word about the countless massacres, violence and ethnic cleansing of the Arabs against the Jews in British mandade of Palestine during the 1947-1948 war and even before. For example on 24 August 1929, the Arabs attacked the Jewish quarter in Hebron,killing and raping men, women and children and looting Jewish property. They killed 65-68 Jews and wounded 58, with some of the victims being tortured, or mutilated. Sir John Chancellor, the British High Commissioner visited Hebron and later wrote to his son, "The horror of it is beyond words. In one house I visited not less than twenty-five Jews men and women were murdered in cold blood." During the 1948 war, on May 4 Arabs conqered the Jewish vilkige if Kfar Etzion after 8 months of brutal siege. the Arabs then massacred the entire Jewish village, the Arabs murdered 127 men and women. Bodies lay in the fields for a year-and-a-half, until Transjordan allowed Israel to retrieve the corpses and bury them. DURING the war more than 15,000 Jews were violently expelled from Judea and Samia which later became known as the West Bank. many Jews were murdered and entire Jewish villages were destroyed. When the Arabs conquered East Jerusalem, they killed many Jews in the Jewish quarter who stayed there, Destroyed all the synagogues and many churches, and destroyed the very old Jewish quarter like they did in Hebron in 1929. AFTER the war was over the Arab states brutally expelled 900,000 Jews and thousands of Jews were murdered between the years 1948-1969. That is the real "Nakba". But make no mistake if the Arabs won they would (as they said themselves) GENOCIDE all the Jews in that land: Azzam Pasha, the General Secretary of the Arab League said It will be a war of elimination and it will be a dangerous massacre which history will record similar to the Mongol massacre or the wars of the Crusades.” Jamal Husseini, a member of the Arab leadership said “The blood will flow like rivers in the Middle East.” Prime Minister of Iraq, Nuri al-Said, made it clear that if a Jewish state was established, “We will smash the country with our guns and obliterate every place the Jews seek shelter in."). But most important of all people need to understand Israel isn't responsible for the brutal aggression the Arabs chose in 1947-1948 There was no ethnic cleansing against Arabs, they did it to the Jews from 1947-1969. In 1947 they started and waged a genocidal war as their leader Amin al-Husseini (who cooperated in Hitler during WW2) called it "war of annihilation" against the Jewish Yishuv after the UN decision to divide the British mandate of Palestine into two states for two people: Jewish and Arab. While the Jews accepted abd Ben Gurion called for regional Jewish-Arab cooperation, the Arabs in the British mandate refused and started a civil war. Later the entire Arab countries joined them. they started the war against the Jews, lost, and paid the price. 700,000 Arabs fled because their leaders told them the new state of Israel would be defeated quickly and also to avoid the fighting yes some few were expelled during the fighting as they cooperated with the enemy but it happened in every war back then. During the Greco-Turkish war (1919-1922) Approximately 1,500,000 Orthodox Christians and ethnic Greeks were uprooted from their homelands. During the partition of India and what followed the India-Pakistan war in 1947 between 10 and 20 million people were displaced. 18 million Germans were expelled by Poland and Czechoslovakia in 1945 after the war.
I live in the US and am old enough to remember a time when Israel was always given a pass, always the innocent victim, blameless in every way. To even suggest their passing of gas smelled bad was to be labeled anti-Semitic. I think today many Americans are at least skeptical of this narrative. You don't have to be an expert on history to know no culture is forever and always blameless.
Zionists will tell you that they as Israelis think them the Jewish people and the Palestinian people are equal. But Jews are more or most equal on the basis that “they are the chosen people of god”. It’s sad to think that 75 years of suffering have occurred and might continue for any varying amount of time onwards
Come on ! really ? The whole World knows it's not Isreal. The West is using Isreal to control over the vast land mass where Islam is everywhere. It is a religious war. Christians using jews to kill muslims. To put it in a simple words.
Growing up in Jordan many of the Palestinians kept their keys with them, I never understand the meaning of it until I was older, it’s very sad however many Palestinians will go back to their ancestors land, they are by far one of the most resilient and determined people.
As a Muslim I appreciate your review and for showing the truth because it seems like the west is constantly trying to make it a Muslim/arab only issue and trying to isolate the Palestinians.
This book is so one-sided and an Arab propaganda. They didn't even give one word about the countless massacres, violence and ethnic cleansing of the Arabs against the Jews in British mandade of Palestine during the 1947-1948 war and even before. For example on 24 August 1929, the Arabs attacked the Jewish quarter in Hebron,killing and raping men, women and children and looting Jewish property. They killed 65-68 Jews and wounded 58, with some of the victims being tortured, or mutilated. Sir John Chancellor, the British High Commissioner visited Hebron and later wrote to his son, "The horror of it is beyond words. In one house I visited not less than twenty-five Jews men and women were murdered in cold blood." During the 1948 war few days before Israel declared Independence, the Arabs massacred the Jewish village of Kfar Etzion, the Arabs murdered 127 men and women. Bodies lay in the fields for a year-and-a-half, until Transjordan allowed Israel to retrieve the corpses and bury them. DURING the war more than 15,000 Jews were violently expelled from Judea and Samia which later became known as the West Bank. many Jews were murdered and entire Jewish villages were destroyed. When the Arabs conquered East Jerusalem, they killed many Jews in the Jewish quarter who stayed there, Destroyed all the synagogues and many churches, and destroyed the very old Jewish quarter like they did in Hebron in 1929. AFTER the war was over the Arab states brutally expelled 900,000 Jews and thousands of Jews were murdered between the years 1948-1969. That is the real "Nakba". But make no mistake if the Arabs won they would (as they said themselves) GENOCIDE all the Jews in that land: Azzam Pasha, the General Secretary of the Arab League said It will be a war of elimination and it will be a dangerous massacre which history will record similar to the Mongol massacre or the wars of the Crusades.” Jamal Husseini, a member of the Arab leadership said “The blood will flow like rivers in the Middle East.” Prime Minister of Iraq, Nuri al-Said, made it clear that if a Jewish state was established, “We will smash the country with our guns and obliterate every place the Jews seek shelter in."). But most important of all people need to understand Israel isn't responsible for the brutal aggression the Arabs chose in 1947-1948 There was no ethnic cleansing against Arabs, they did it to the Jews from 1947-1969. In 1947 they started and waged a genocidal war as their leader Amin al-Husseini (who cooperated in Hitler during WW2) called it "war of annihilation" against the Jewish Yishuv after the UN decision to divide the British mandate of Palestine into two states for two people: Jewish and Arab. While the Jews accepted abd Ben Gurion called for regional Jewish-Arab cooperation, the Arabs in the British mandate refused and started a civil war. Later the entire Arab countries joined them. they started the war against the Jews, lost, and paid the price. 700,000 Arabs fled because their leaders told them the new state of Israel would be defeated quickly and also to avoid the fighting yes some few were expelled during the fighting as they cooperated with the enemy but it happened in every war back then. During the Greco-Turkish war (1919-1922) Approximately 1,500,000 Orthodox Christians and ethnic Greeks were uprooted from their homelands. During the partition of India and what followed the India-Pakistan war in 1947 between 10 and 20 million people were displaced. 18 million Germans were expelled by Poland and Czechoslovakia in 1945 after the war.
Thanks man for speaking about this, I'm not Palestinian but i read about what pappe talked about in the book since I was 8, I really hope that more people discover the truth about what Palestinians went through in the last 7 decades so hopefully we can all help them live a better future.
@@StephenHeiner Why don't you read the truth and the Israeli story of what they went through? You think the arabss were handing them candies and flowers when the UN partition happened? Are you serious? there was MASSIVE BOMBINGS ON jews. Entire busses were blown up. They NEVER accepted a peaceful solution or an ISRAELI STATE? WHY? WHY DID ISRAEL ACCEPT PEACE AND THEY CHOOSE TO REJECT? they always REJECTED jews because JEWS MUST HAVE THE STATUS OF A "DHIMMI" OR SECOND CLASS CITIZEN TO ISLAM. EDUCATE YOURSELF THIS IS A RELIGOUS BATTLE NOT A BATTLE OVER LAND. IF ISRAEL WAS MUSLIM NOBODY WOULD BAT AN EYE 400,000 MUSLIMS WERE ETHNICALLY CLEANSED IN SYRIA BY OTHER MUSLIMS RECENTLY WERE YOU PROTESTING?
Today 2 million Arabs are citizens of Israel. How many Jews are citizens in 20 Arab countries? ZERO! This is real Ethnic Cleansing of 1 million Jews in 1948... Just fact...
Help the palestinians have a better life? Yeah, we can do that, but i think it'd be better to start off by offerring acual, implementable reall solution to the situation, a solution that is beneficial to both sides and not one that throws one side to the sharks, because there are nine millions Israelis living in that area, seven of them which are Jewish, and they're there to stay. Now, don't say it will all be fine if we just destroy the borders or give the palestinians a complete independent state just like that, because the recent events have shown us enough that it will not end peacefully. Well you might suggest that we need to change the education system, and that i agree with, but then arises the question who's education system should be changed and what to (I'll have you know that many times during my time in school we have been given the chance to learn about the diffrent narratives through meeting people [Palestinians and Israelis alike] and talking to them instead of just being told the "truth", as well as that one of the first things we were told In school after 7/10 is that any kind of discrimination against anyone or any group of people is completely unacceptable and has no place in that school). Anyway, what I'm saying is that it is more complicated than just hoping for a better future for the Palestinians, you need to offer solutions to the corrent situation instead of wanting someone else to find one, especially not the corent Israeli government, the only ones they care about is themselves, and believe it or not the Israeli people wouldn't necessarily be against it and well, they actually can do something against the government if they want to.
I’m about halfway through the audio version. There isn’t any coming back after learning the well researched and documented history of the creation of Israel. It’s extremely painful to listen to, I’ve developed throbbing migraines while going through the book. This is the history that Zionists and Israel supporters don’t want exposed. Their narrative of a beautiful flower blossoming out of the desert and the barbaric, primitive Arabs arriving recently from other regions and constantly victimizing them is what they’ve succeeded in fooling most of the world with. I am so glad that you have promoted the book.
What do you mean “don’t want exposed”? I’ve only seen one pro-Israel article in my feed today and it doesn’t seem that easy to keep this “truth” away from people.
I admire you for reading the book, I don't know I have the courage as I am distressed about the situation even without reading it. It would be preaching to the converted as I have educated myself enough to know that what the Israelis are doing is so WRONG on every level. The people who need to read it are the supporters of Israel including our governments but they won't because they will only read propaganda that supports their current beliefs. The western support of Israel has nothing to do with right or wrong, but has everything to do with power, influence and money.
As a foreigner I worked in Gaza many years ago. When I landed there, I realized that the narrative we were fed couldn't be further from the truth. I was shocked to say the least. I still can't understand how the world and Western countries, upholding morality and human rights ideas, cannot openly condemn the ongoing situation, and most importantly stop supporting a genocidal regime.
@@StephenHeiner yes I stayed in touch with a wonderful human being there, someone I consider like my sister. Unfortunately 3 weeks into the bombing I couldn't reach out to her anymore. She, along her family were displaced in the south from the north.
You typed the world and the west are upholding human rights and morality ? PFFTT. The world except the WEST yes. The west had no morals or even human rights to begin with. It was never there. Built on GENOCIDE of Native Indian, incans and Aborigins, mass slavery of africans, waging sensless war on WWI, WWII, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghan, Libya, even incitement of kosovo and timorleste. Only westerners think they ar on higher moral ground and believing they are the only one upholding human rights, when every wealth and everything the WESTERN built was at the cost of blood and suffering, where palestinian blood still drenching to the colonial regime backed by the west to this day
In my youth I worked on Kibbutz Tzora as a volunteer. The American Jews drive us to the Arab borders and told us “civilisation ends here”. They also warned us to beware of the Arabs we might meet “they are not like us they don’t respect life”. Bullshit of course but as an impressionable youth I bought it. Only last year I found out the kibbutz is built on an old Palestinian village. The villagers were driven out their homes blown up and MINED in case they returned for their belongings. I listened to Ilan Pappes book this year. I had to listen to it twice because it’s not an easy read at times it’s just a list of atrocities one after another. It’s almost unbelievable it’s so bad, but the fact it’s by an Israeli historian makes one realise it’s true. The game is up for the Israelis, no one except the self deluded believes them anymore. Unfortunately, their response is to label Mr Pappe as a self hating Jew and people like me who challenge their atrocities as anti semites. Thank God for brave honest Jews like Ilan Pappe.
@StephenHeiner Look! It's an Asian guy with a Confederate flag. I have that book too. Oct 7 was allowed to happen. Netanyahu was warned ahead of time, & they had a 7hr stand down. Total scum.
I have read them. A great book. It makes you blood boil with anger and sadness reading the cruelties the Jewish militias did to the Palestinians. You will be a changed man after reading this. No amount of Israeli propaganda can turn you back, because you have read the truth.
@@jrnp-w7z Good for you Josh. I recommend you read a memoir by Prof. Avi Shlaim "Three Worlds: Memoir of an Arab-Jew". He was also a Jew from Baghdad and fled to Israel.
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" is a book written by Ilan Pappé, an Israeli historian and academic. In this work, Pappé presents an analyses and critical examination of the events surrounding the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 and the subsequent displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. The central thesis of the book is that what took place during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, often referred to as the Nakba (Arabic for "catastrophe"), was not merely a consequence of war but a deliberate and planned campaign to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their land. Pappé argues that Israeli leaders, both before and during the war, formulated and executed policies designed to force the departure of the the native Palestinians from the areas that were to become the state of Israel. The book draws on a range of sources, including Israeli military archives and declassified documents, to support its claims. Pappé contends that there was a systematic effort to expel Palestinians from their homes, villages, and towns, using a combination of military force, intimidation, and massacres.
100 years war on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi is another important book that covers the colonisation of Palestine (if I remember Ilan Pappe even recommends it at the beginning of his book)
"100 Years War on Palestine" by Rashid Khalidi {2020, 320 pages} Marvellous Book. Brilliantly researched. Beautifully written. Essential reading for everyone
@@tecc-ns462 we cannot fight everyone’s wars. We need to allow regional conflicts to fix themselves. Israel is the only nuclear power in the region. The idea that they need our help when they have won every war they gave ever fought as a country is absurd.
@@StephenHeinerBut don’t forget that they were always the underdog and only won most of their wars thanks to our support. The fact that they pulled through in 1948 was miraculous.
@@aycc-nbh7289 no, our interventions, as almost always, were disastrous. We didn’t allow a regional controversy to resolve itself. So we have what we have today because we not only allowed a unilateral declaration of independence, we were the first to recognize it, against world opinion.
Or killed, bombed and terrorized on their own land! My heart breaks at the knowledge of the terror inflicted in the name of God! The absence of the respect for the lives of others and the covetousness for the property of others to include land owned by Palestinian ancestors for centuries! Until I started doing research, as a Christian, I was taught to always support and pray for Israel. My eyes are open to the atrocities they have committed in order to create the State of Israel! As a Christian I stand up for the oppressed and marginalized! I treat others as I would like my family and children to be treated! I am so grateful fir zjewudh brothers and sisters who support the peace and freedom for the "Imago Dei." We are all made in the image of God!
@@deb9784i am muslim i cant say i know the bible better than you but from my point israel is the name of prophet jacob ,you can replace any other prophet in that verse and still the verse is valid ,because israel was never a place it was called judea and befor that it was called canann and the promise was for all abraham seed,also may i recommend reading about habash and kanafani ,palestinians christians in resistance
This is what we study at school, middle eastern well aware about the situation. And I always get frustrated when I talk with non middle eastern and the way they talk about Palestinians as terrorists. I feel defeated.
I live in the US, and I apologize for how my country was/is complicit in your oppression! No excuses! As a Christian African American, I see it and I am horrified!
Great video. I would just add that what we call "arabs" are not just the people who came from "Hijaz" during muslim conquests. Majority are are also those who lived their before muslim conquests and converted to Islam. Even jews (who did not convert to Islam) living among muslim spoke arabic. Arabic was the lingua franca of the day. Just like how English is today. Even the great scholar of Judaism like Maimonedis spoke and wrote many books in arabic, even though he was born in muslim spain.
In fact genetic studies indicate 30% of Palestinians have Jewish genetics. In other words, a large percentage of Palestinians descendants from indigenous Jews.
you're a brave man for speaking up♥ + i also recommend these books if someone wanna read further 1- " Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation by Eyal Weizman" 2-"Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill" 3-"On Palestine by Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappé" 4-"Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha" 5-"The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948 by Eugene Rogan , Avi Shlaim " 6-" he Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance by Rashid Khalidi" . again thx for your time and enjoy reading
Noam chomsky the guy who says there was no Cambodian massacre and Palestinan national Identity didn't happen till 1975. Read ma'na an nakba by constatin zureiq. don't pigeon hole yourself into a certain narrative by confirming your biases and only reading stuff thet props up your biases.
@StephenHeiner why don't you do some reading against your own biases your whole video was talking points. The only 2 proven factually thingd you said are Palestinan refugees hold on to their keys, and the UN called for 2 states. The rest were opinions of what dead leaders may or may not intended based on letters that may or may not have been crossed out and plans that may have been intentional or may have just been implemented because the situation arose.
@@succatash I have a lot to learn and will share more over the next year. You’ll see if you watch any of my other videos in those series that I continue to educate myself. If you have books to share, let me know.
Thank you for raising awareness on this! Thank you for speaking up on the truth! Thank you for playing a part in saving lives by speaking up and educating others on the facts.
Thank you for making the point that we don't all have to have a take on every situation in the world. A friend called last night to spread propaganda about Palestinians being victims of their own terrorist organisations but I was sceptical. You have put your head above the parapet, and with words that I am able to understand, explained some of the relevant geopolitical history resulting in the current drama.
Your friend wasn't trying to propagate, your voice could save a soul. This is not a random conflict on a land it's an ethnic cleansing!! People are blown into shreds 😢 if not us who would get them out of this. It could be me, my family, it could be you or someone dear to you, would you want to have people ask questions to known who is the victim or would you want them to shrug this off as you suffer all kinds of crime wars. If you could only see one picture of what is going on, you'd never stop propagating for their justice. I eave it for you to decide
@davidlafleche1142 this comment made me angry but I give you the benefit of the doubt. Please, we could all be mistaken about something. Palestinians had their ancestors alongside the jews as the jews and the Palestinians are both the descendants of canninite, jews left Palestinians didn't, they converted to Islam when Islam reached that area, some remained Christian other were still holding onto their Judaism (you can literally find them on UA-cam Palestinian jews/Christian) when jews came seeking shelter after ww2 Palestinians welcomed them (on google) however zionists came with the intention of taking the land they left 2000 years ago, it's crazy to use such argument, you can't just ignore the continuous existence of Palestinians, zionist gained power and stated taking more land (more than needed to settle) they took houses from Palestinians with furniture and with gardens that had olive trees, literally all belonged to Palestinians, as unjustice spread while the world couldn't say anything in fear of being labeled antisemitic, Palestinians held grudge and felt angry so they refused to split land because why would they? (Would you split your property just like that) the world started calling Palestinians haters and racist, fast forward Israel was a powerful most developed country in terms of everything, no peace treaty was respected Palestinians got angrier but the world still didn’t care, fight went back and forth and they both hate each other now for something the British started. If you call Palestinians racist I want you to listen to netwnyaho talking about the prophecy of Joshua Ben Noon a prophet of theirs who committed genocide against the melchite, he was implying genocide against Palestinians (look at what is going on in gaza 9000 people were wiped in the span of 3 weeks, look at the different between the Palestine in 1948 and now, they live in a siege, have absolutely no way out of Gaza, treated like shit and are labeled animals, and after all this you're here calling them terrorists, terrorists don't treat their hostages they way hamas is doing, please take a moment and use your critical thinking be objective and think for yourself
Great book, I'm reading his other book "10 myths about Israel" I'll start it after I finish that one. I just want to point something about 1948 War and this is essential and not talked about enough: The Arab armies "around 30 thousands soldier" from Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon only went to protect the land of the Palestinians they weren't ready of course because they faced trained Zionists (101,000 soldiers and around 200 Generals who served in the allies armies in WWII) but the important thing is they stayed within the allocated land to Palestinians by the UN. This is so important they didn't invade the land allocated to the Zionists and more importantly King Abdallah from Jordan who was the head of the Arabs army at the time went to see Golda Meir and showed her on the maps where they will stand and that they will not cross to the land allocated to them. Of course Israeli leaders wouldn't leave a chance to increase their land allocation when they saw how weak the Arabs are. BTW after the ceasefire Ben Gurion ordered the Army to Take Eilat which was an Egyptian port. Sorry for the long post!
Pure islamonazi propaganda. Arab states did not want to free palestinian land because there was no palestine. Arab states wanted to land grab free land after the british left. Arabs have no shame. Arabs came to throw the jews into the sea and got destroyed. Stop crying now you islamonazi losers
@StephenHeiner is that on your radar? Or you are also one of those fake historians who claims, that jesus picture on your wall, he was a palestinian arab muslim?
I'm re-reading Pappe's 'Ten Myths about Israel'. In his chapter 'The Gaza Mythologies' he dismissively refers to the 'far-fetched image of Hamas as a group of ruthless and insane fanatics'. In the light of recent atrocities that hasn't aged well.
You don't have to be Muslim or Arab to emphatize and stand with the Palastinians, you just have to be human. Despite the horrors they have been through, they are still resolute in their fate. I will even say they have the strongest fate in God of all the Muslims in the world.
I read this book few weeks ago and it has changed my perspective on the Palestinian and Israel’s history. It’s much different than all the narrow narratives media keep feeding us. I highly recommend this book.
Thank you for your call to search for actual facts beyond the news propaganda. People think that the reality is too complex and while it may be, the start of bread crumbs (especially regarding the current war crimes) is so accessible today, just beyond a false corporate news veil, and in the reports, literature, and on-the-ground documentation of the facts. You are doing a good job to the people around you by uncovering a way to these truths. Subscribed.❤
I’m glad you have the courage to review this book, especially now that’s it’s needed most. I’m sure you’ve gotten plenty of flack. Have a Merry Christmas. Native American Anishnabe stand with Palestine!🇵🇸
@@StephenHeiner He is a great writer, but I like this one: Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom: Finkelstein, Norman. By the way, he gave an interesting presentation this week about the conflict, you can find it on youtube: Israel/Palestine: The History and What’s Real? Opposing Views with Norman Finkelstein and David Brog
Thank you so much for your review!!! I have read it twice and it is a really hard reading... Pappe is an historian part of the Israeli historians from the 80s called the revisionists because they started to fact check the myth of a land without people for a people without a land. In that group you can find other Israeli historians such as Avi Shlaim and Benny Morris. I think you can also complement Pappe with The Palestinian Identity by the Palestinian Historian Rashid Khalidi.
This book by Arab propogandist is so one-sided and an Arab propaganda. They didn't even give one word about the countless massacres, violence and ethnic cleansing of the Arabs against the Jews in British mandade of Palestine during the 1947-1948 war and even before. For example on 24 August 1929, the Arabs attacked the Jewish quarter in Hebron,killing and raping men, women and children and looting Jewish property. They killed 65-68 Jews and wounded 58, with some of the victims being tortured, or mutilated. Sir John Chancellor, the British High Commissioner visited Hebron and later wrote to his son, "The horror of it is beyond words. In one house I visited not less than twenty-five Jews men and women were murdered in cold blood." During the 1948 war, on May 4 Arabs conqered the Jewish vilkige if Kfar Etzion after 8 months of brutal siege. the Arabs then massacred the entire Jewish village, the Arabs murdered 127 men and women. Bodies lay in the fields for a year-and-a-half, until Transjordan allowed Israel to retrieve the corpses and bury them. DURING the war more than 15,000 Jews were violently expelled from Judea and Samia which later became known as the West Bank. many Jews were murdered and entire Jewish villages were destroyed. When the Arabs conquered East Jerusalem, they killed many Jews in the Jewish quarter who stayed there, Destroyed all the synagogues and many churches, and destroyed the very old Jewish quarter like they did in Hebron in 1929. AFTER the war was over the Arab states brutally expelled 900,000 Jews and thousands of Jews were murdered between the years 1948-1969. That is the real "Nakba". But make no mistake if the Arabs won they would (as they said themselves) GENOCIDE all the Jews in that land: Azzam Pasha, the General Secretary of the Arab League said It will be a war of elimination and it will be a dangerous massacre which history will record similar to the Mongol massacre or the wars of the Crusades.” Jamal Husseini, a member of the Arab leadership said “The blood will flow like rivers in the Middle East.” Prime Minister of Iraq, Nuri al-Said, made it clear that if a Jewish state was established, “We will smash the country with our guns and obliterate every place the Jews seek shelter in."). But most important of all people need to understand Israel isn't responsible for the brutal aggression the Arabs chose in 1947-1948 There was no ethnic cleansing against Arabs, they did it to the Jews from 1947-1969. In 1947 they started and waged a genocidal war as their leader Amin al-Husseini (who cooperated in Hitler during WW2) called it "war of annihilation" against the Jewish Yishuv after the UN decision to divide the British mandate of Palestine into two states for two people: Jewish and Arab. While the Jews accepted abd Ben Gurion called for regional Jewish-Arab cooperation, the Arabs in the British mandate refused and started a civil war. Later the entire Arab countries joined them. they started the war against the Jews, lost, and paid the price. 700,000 Arabs fled because their leaders told them the new state of Israel would be defeated quickly and also to avoid the fighting yes some few were expelled during the fighting as they cooperated with the enemy but it happened in every war back then. During the Greco-Turkish war (1919-1922) Approximately 1,500,000 Orthodox Christians and ethnic Greeks were uprooted from their homelands. During the partition of India and what followed the India-Pakistan war in 1947 between 10 and 20 million people were displaced. 18 million Germans were expelled by Poland and Czechoslovakia in 1945 after the war.
Thank you. A very good book selection. Very informative. A timely introduction to an authentic historical record of how big powers trampled on the rights of smaller nations and deprived them of their homes and even lives. Thank you again.
Israel was a "big power"? You have to be kidding me. About a third of Jews had already been murdered and the Arab world wanted to finish the job. But the Jews were the oppressors?
I was raised an ardent Zionist, never even properly exposed to the counterarguments. I stopped being Zionist around Operation Cast Lead, when the overwhelmingly disproportionate body count of Palestinians to Israelis made me rethink everything I was taught. I began to realize that a lot of the jingoism I was hearing from the people I was raised with resembled stuff that anti-Semites say about Jews. I’ve recently discovered Pappe. He really sums up very eloquently the many misconceptions I was raised with and why they are wrong. A great first read for anyone questioning their Zionistic beliefs and looking to explore alternatives.
After 100k views here are are some general comments: 1. There are some who are saying, “well there are millions of Palestinians in Israel now so what ethnic cleansing are you talking about?” These same people would argue that since there are still Armenians in Armenia or Bosnians in Bosnia that no ethnic cleansing happened there either. We will leave them in their willful ignorance. Ethnic cleansing is not only murder, but displacement and dispossession. The “no ethnic cleansing” people would have us believe that the millions of refugees in Jordan just popped out of the desert. 2. Plenty want to shoot the messenger, Ilan Pappè. The number one “proof” that is cited? The opinion of Benny Morris. Morris has his own skeletons as well. No historian is perfect. And don’t worry, I’ll be reviewing Morris too. But this book of Pappe’s has plenty of footnotes. 3. Some want to say there was no such thing as Palestine or Palestinians. This flies in the face of events prior to 1948, including a very famous newspaper called Filastin, edited by Isa al-Isa, and shut down by the British numerous times. 4. Yes I want peace and I talked about some obstacles to that peace in another video, Peace in the Promised Land. Despite the injustice of how Israel was established I accept the PLO/PA position that Israel has a right to exist. ua-cam.com/video/WUpCd4K8Znw/v-deo.htmlsi=lvaCd9zEwf8Zz174 5. Yes, that’s a confederate battle flag. If you wish to actually learn more instead of just calling me names: ua-cam.com/video/FCB-2_2GgI0/v-deo.htmlsi=GBUXv_XS4IEEuMxd&t=170 6. Apparently I look like Elon Musk to some of you. I don’t have a good explanation for that as I have no ethnic ties to SA ;)
I am a Jew from Israel. I agree with everything you've said above (including the Elon Musk part) and with Ilan Pappe. But there are other issues as well, including extreme Muslim groups, ties between Palestine and the evil Chinese communist regime that persecutes Falun Dafa practitioners. Those things play an effect as well.
You talk as if the surrounding nations didn't try to crush Israel - " the only nuclear nation playing the victim " . Of course 6-7 surrounding countries did try to obliterate Israel. 1948 and again 1967. They are still doing it covertly. I have heard interviews on the streets of gaza and west bank where 100% of people interviewed said they will rather teach their children to hate Jews than live in peace with them. And lastly why is Israel and its actions always front and center but not the atrocities of US, China, Saudi( to its own people and Yemen), Syria, Pakistan (against 2 million Afghans) not in the news. Of course they feel they are victims
Israel cannot exist as Israel. Jews can stay as Palestinians and have same rights as everybody else. Jews lived there before the zionist movement under Ottoman empire.
1. that mean there decrease of palestinian as it to suppress them but that not what happening plus arabs still living freely in israel better than neighbouring country, the rwanda genocide would speak diferently about it, I'm not taking other point, but I think that should be a clear message, fyi this is called war, it what gonna be happen
"The tale of Palestine from the beginning until today is a simple story of colonialism and dispossession,yet the world treats it as a multifaceted and complex story - hard to understand and even harder to solve" - Noam Chomsky
Firstly, what a great video. I've never heard of this book, but I know the author. Thank you for this thorough review. Subbed :) Keep up the Good work.
The dense, definitive academic standard about the situation is Fateful Triangle by Noam Chomsky. Other authors are Schlomo Sand, Norman Finkelstein and, to an extent, Benny Morris. The Zionist archives were opened to Israel's FOIA equivalent in the early 80s. Since then, Israel can't hide from the truth.
I wish more people would read (and question), in general but especially on this topic. Because the facts and experiences clearly indicate that Isreal have been committing atrocities for a long time. I'm South African, my parents and siblings were born under the Apartheid regime while I was the first child in my family born after. So my perspective of learning the plight of the Palestinian people is from the perspective of my own history which makes it incredibly frustrating to see ignorant people deny such systems of oppression. Great video ! I hope it encourages more people to read this book and the many others.
I have so much respect for you for opening the eyes of the world on the oppression Palestinians have been and are going through. I’m definitely adding this book to my reading list.
It’s amazing how many who go do some reading on the subject or just ask questions, come back to discover just how much the media has not shown us over the years. Great review
Thank you Stephen, I have ordered Ilan Pappe’s book. I just watched a documentary video on a Palestinian father and his family that lives in the West Bank. It’s called “5 Broken Cameras”. It’s on You Tube. I also watched a video on You Tube called “Israeli Soldier Explosive Tell All”. He was an Israeli soldier and spoke about the atrocities he had to do while in the army. There are quite a few former Israeli soldiers coming forward and speaking about their job as soldiers.
Thankyou for the book report. I have subbed and hope you do this all the time. This book is in my maibox now. I follow another Book reporter, plus i now have an extensive Library of my own. Thankyou again, you have made a contribution to the World.❤
A superb review of the book with absolute clarity. Loved it. Thank you. I request you to review the book The Question Of Palestine by Edward Said whenever you find it convenient.
used to be one of those people who think those free Palestine chanting was annoying, until i took the time to dig deeper and found out how much the media was trying to hide from the public
Thank you for your Wonderful Heads-up on this likely very Insightful and informative Book about the causes of the Palestinian Crisis❤. Would really love to read this book as and when available
i was about to pick up this book as well. Currently reading "The Hundred Year War On Palestine" by american-palestinian historian/academic Rashid Khalidi. do a review of that one as well if you havent yet. would love to know your opinion.
I really enjoyed your video. Your experience was much closer to first hand than most others. I very much appreciate the call to objectivity and independent fact finding. Thanks for this video.
I stumbled across this video as it was a YT suggestion. I am familiar with Mr. Pappe having seen hm speak in videos. He is an authority on Palestine. I think you did a very good review of Pappe's book and plan to read it. I am so impressed that you traveled to Palestine (Hebron) and can speak from personal experience. Thank you for your frank review, Stephen. I am glad to discover your book review channel.
Thank you Stephen, this was a pretty good review, understandable. But this book isn't available on either amazon or ebay, or maybe it just gets sold out too quickly cus of the current situation.
Many Jews have dual citizenship, whereas Palestinians displaced due to ethnic cleansing often lack citizenship in the Arab countries they fled to. Palestinians in various nations receive refugee travel documents with limited rights, restricting their freedom, property ownership, and full citizenship privileges. This has led to generations of suffering caused by Jewish settlers and the state of Israel.
Great review! It's a great book.. Very painful for me to read as a Palestinian American, but it needs to be read. Tantura is a documentary I would like to watch soon, but the clips I've seen have made me sick to my core. I am going to have to watch it in segments.
No, most people in the region are descended from those who migrated after 1918. And prior to then, this entire thing started to to racism against Jews in the Ottoman Empire.
I read a fiction " The blue between sky and water" that had a lot of references to actual historical events like when Israel bulldozed Rachel Corrie, a sweet American woman, for standing upto the idf bulldozing Palestinian homes. May you rest in Peace Corrie❤. I have heard Palestinians have a street or landmark named after her. FREE PALESTINE FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA!
I just finished reading this book, too. It is an eye opener in so many ways. Not only does it shed a bright light on the ethnic cleansing of 1948, the ongoing brutal occupation and ethnic cleansing efforts, but also on the propaganda machine that has helped Israel be the oppressor yet remain seen as a victim in the rest of the world and in Israel. Currently reading "Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe - On Palestine ". "They Call Me a Lioness" by Ahed Tamimi and Deba Takruri will be next. The more we know and understand about history and the current struggles of the Palestinians, the harder we are to fool.
So what can we do to help stop this propaganda machine? I’ve only seen a handful of pro-Israel articles and videos in my feed since the war started and I’m fearful that riots will break out in my home state.
It is also important to know when the British promised Palestine as a homeland, it only had a 10% Jewish minority ( 1917 Balfour Declaration) This is why to describe it as a colonial settlement is legitimate.
As a Palestinian Canadian who was born in Jordan, I watched my parents watch the Arab news so closely, while I was being educated in Canada. There were no mentions of my own people's persecution in the schools. All we ever got were the hardships of the Holocaust and Native Canadians. It was many years later where I started to slowly learn about my ethnicity, but it came to a halt when 9-11 happened. There was a stigma that young Arabs felt where they kind of had to hide their identity. I remember when a person asked me where I was from, I would say Jordan, instead of Palestine because of either fear or embarrassment. I realized in my 20s, I had some identity problem, where I didn't know where I belonged in the Western world (Imposter Syndrome). I learned its much easier to handle as long as I stay close to my family/relatives and Arab community. When my parents told me about my family's history and how both of my Grandfathers were part of the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, it made me question what I learned in the Western world. I noticed the media were never on the side of the Arabs and never on the side of who is truly persecuted. After that is when I started to understand why my parents were watching the Arab news in the first place; it was because we were living in a country that was never on our side. I'm in my 30s now and I'm skeptical, but also hopeful that one day peace will shine through the eyes of every child in that region.
I appreciate your optimism. Some commenters here would say that since your grandfathers are not approved “reputable” authors, their stories are not true lol. But we know their stories are true and thank you for sharing.
Imagine occupying a people for 75 years and still not understanding that “Arab” is not an ethnicity as we understand it from a western perspective. While these countries share some culture and a base language they’re vastly different from each other like a Moroccan is not a Saudi is not an Egyptian is not a Palestinian so no Palestinians didn’t have “other Arab countries to go to”. Even each Palestinian village has their own dialect their own traditional clothing and food and practices. It’s a very ignorant and violent argument to make but that’s what Zionism is at the end of the day violent settler colonialism that views it subjects as animals
Updated review on new channel:
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gimme some books I can go read further on this bro!!!
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As a survivor of the Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia, I highly recommend this book.
Have you seen my review of Ozren Kebo’s book on Sarajevo?
@@StephenHeiner no, I found your channel by chance... you know because of unfrotunate circumstances.
But I will see it.
@@AdemOmerovicBA let me know what you think when you do. I really enjoyed my time in Bosnia and Herzegovina earlier this year.
Bosnia is another case, awful case when the entire world acted blind. I only saw few footages many years ago and I can’t erase it from my memory. Bosnia, Burma, IEgore were shedding tears of blood and nobody heard them 😭😭😭😭😭
@@zola93 I did a video on a book about the siege of Sarajevo if you want to check it out.
I was born into a jewish family and though we weren't religious I had zionism and jewish identity shoved down my throat. I also suffered my share of antisemetic bullying at school. As a young man I went to live in Israel and I served in the IDF. Gradually over the years I felt more and more troubled by the treatment of the Palestinians and started to question the narrative we have been fed for all of our lives. By the time I read this book I already had dramatically changed my views but this was the final nail in the coffin, I had no idea the extent of the injustice done in 1948. It's horrific. Most jews and zionists really have no idea about this which feeds into their anti Palestinian attitudes.
Danny, you and the other ignorant good Jews can still do the right thing now for the Palestinians. Haven't they suffered enough injustice for the past 75 years? It is not enough to say you feel sorry for them and do nothing about it. Spread the truth, fight for the truth. There will be no real peace until justice prevails.
@@MaplesGoneMad "other ignorant good Jews" are you calling me ignorant? I have read many books now on this topic all in line with Pape's book plus numerous UA-cam videos. So Im certainly not ignorant. I am spreading the word what do you think I am doing making this contribution here? I have constant difficult debates with Jewish friends and family and have broken relationships and friendships as a result.
Hello Danny, i appreciate you. I am a palestinian and always wondered about the other point of view. Me and my family talk about it alot. We came to the conclusion that it must be alot of brainwashing at a young age also alot of hiding of whats really going on to your neighbors. I know it must be hard trying to talk to your community or you will be labeled self hating. Thanks for your comment and open mindedness. Hopefully we could find peace one day
@@ElNoons Thanks for your reply! The more we can talk openly and in a civilised manner as fellow human beings the better then chance of a future peace. I can assure you most Jews dont know about the ethnic cleansing that happened in 48. We are taught that the land was practically empty and that the Arab nations waged war on Israel and the Palestinians Fled. As a Jew you can live your whole life believing this and that its your historical homeland which is also a spurious claim. In the absence of balanced education we are all potential victims to propaganda.
@@Danny310563 beautifully said. Ameen
I pray the world sees the truth and protects the innocent lives
I've read the Israelis actually thought the Palestinians would "just go to other Arab countries". My friends mother still mourns the loss of her home in Palestine. We need to remember many Palestinians had land with olive groves etc. - it wasn't just houses. Many of them were kicked off their land because they didn't have "paperwork" proving the land, house etc. was theirs. Most people's families had lived on the land for generations and you didn't need "paperwork" back then.
Very true
@@StephenHeinerPlease be aware that Palestinians are not "Arab" by blood, as in originally from the Arabic peninsula. Palestinians are predominantly of local Levantine origin, the descendants of the Canaanites, The Palestinians, same as the rest of MENA countries outside the Arabic peninsula, countries like Morocco, Algeria, Tunesia, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, are not "Arab" genetically. They are still at their rightfull place, not 'replaced', still predominantly of local origin. The Islamic conquest did NOT replace the millions of indigenous people. Still should not be compared the European /old world migrations to the Americas. Its not the same. The ancestors of Palestinians were once Jewish and later on they became christian and some converted after to Islam. So by calling them."Arab" the Zay onist try to give the false impression (in a sneaky way), that Palestinians are not indigenous to the Levant and should go "back to Arabia' while all the genetic studies show otherwise. They are not "Arabs'
@@MariaNI-yf1bzgreat point! In this part of the world, and also further up into the Balkans and beyond there’s a lot of mixing and movement.
@@MariaNI-yf1bz Your premise is faulty. "The Palestinian people are Arabs who live-and have lived throughout history-in a certain geographical region in the Middle East." They were Bedouin tribes who settled in that area after Rome destroyed Israel - more than 2,000 years ago. You can verify this by simply googling it...
@@MariaNI-yf1bz Wasn't it the 20th century Arab Nationalist movement that popularized the use of the word "Arab" to describe all native Arabic-speakers regardless of genetic origin?
Listening to someone telling the truth is comforting.
Glad you liked it.
This book by Arab propogandist is so one-sided and an Arab propaganda. They didn't even give one word about the countless massacres, violence and ethnic cleansing of the Arabs against the Jews in British mandade of Palestine during the 1947-1948 war and even before.
For example on 24 August 1929, the Arabs attacked the Jewish quarter in Hebron,killing and raping men, women and children and looting Jewish property. They killed 65-68 Jews and wounded 58, with some of the victims being tortured, or mutilated.
Sir John Chancellor, the British High Commissioner visited Hebron and later wrote to his son, "The horror of it is beyond words. In one house I visited not less than twenty-five Jews men and women were murdered in cold blood."
During the 1948 war, on May 4 Arabs conqered the Jewish vilkige if Kfar Etzion after 8 months of brutal siege. the Arabs then massacred the entire Jewish village, the Arabs murdered 127 men and women. Bodies lay in the fields for a year-and-a-half, until Transjordan allowed Israel to retrieve the corpses and bury them.
DURING the war more than 15,000 Jews were violently expelled from Judea and Samia which later became known as the West Bank. many Jews were murdered and entire Jewish villages were destroyed. When the Arabs conquered East Jerusalem, they killed many Jews in the Jewish quarter who stayed there,
Destroyed all the synagogues and many churches, and destroyed the very old Jewish quarter like they did in Hebron in 1929.
AFTER the war was over the Arab states brutally expelled 900,000 Jews and thousands of Jews were murdered between the years 1948-1969. That is the real "Nakba".
But make no mistake if the Arabs won they would (as they said themselves) GENOCIDE all the Jews in that land: Azzam Pasha, the General Secretary of the Arab League said It will be a war of elimination and it will be a dangerous massacre which history will record similar to the Mongol massacre or the wars of the Crusades.” Jamal Husseini, a member of the Arab leadership said “The blood will flow like rivers in the Middle East.” Prime Minister of Iraq, Nuri al-Said, made it clear that if a Jewish state was established, “We will smash the country with our guns and obliterate every place the Jews seek shelter in.").
But most important of all people need to understand Israel isn't responsible for the brutal aggression the Arabs chose in 1947-1948 There was no ethnic cleansing against Arabs, they did it to the Jews from 1947-1969. In 1947 they started and waged a genocidal war as their leader Amin al-Husseini (who cooperated in Hitler during WW2) called it "war of annihilation" against the Jewish Yishuv after the UN decision to divide the British mandate of Palestine into two states for two people: Jewish and Arab. While the Jews accepted abd Ben Gurion called for regional Jewish-Arab cooperation, the Arabs in the British mandate refused and started a civil war. Later the entire Arab countries joined them. they started the war against the Jews, lost, and paid the price. 700,000 Arabs fled because their leaders told them the new state of Israel would be defeated quickly and also to avoid the fighting yes some few were expelled during the fighting as they cooperated with the enemy but it happened in every war back then. During the Greco-Turkish war (1919-1922) Approximately 1,500,000 Orthodox Christians and ethnic Greeks were uprooted from their homelands. During the partition of India and what followed the India-Pakistan war in 1947 between 10 and 20 million people were displaced. 18 million Germans were expelled by Poland and Czechoslovakia in 1945 after the war.
That is not truth that is lie .Jews are on their land and will stay forever
He's lying. It's Jews who have been ethnically cleansed out of every Arab country.
Where I smell comfort I smell bullshit
I live in the US and am old enough to remember a time when Israel was always given a pass, always the innocent victim, blameless in every way. To even suggest their passing of gas smelled bad was to be labeled anti-Semitic. I think today many Americans are at least skeptical of this narrative. You don't have to be an expert on history to know no culture is forever and always blameless.
It’s been fascinating to watch this shift even in my short lifetime.
Zionists will tell you that they as Israelis think them the Jewish people and the Palestinian people are equal. But Jews are more or most equal on the basis that “they are the chosen people of god”. It’s sad to think that 75 years of suffering have occurred and might continue for any varying amount of time onwards
You can still lose your job if you criticize Israel in anyway
@@StephenHeiner You can still lose your job if you criticize Israel in anyway
Come on ! really ? The whole World knows it's not Isreal. The West is using Isreal to control over the vast land mass where Islam is everywhere. It is a religious war.
Christians using jews to kill muslims. To put it in a simple words.
Growing up in Jordan many of the Palestinians kept their keys with them, I never understand the meaning of it until I was older, it’s very sad however many Palestinians will go back to their ancestors land, they are by far one of the most resilient and determined people.
It’s a great symbol
Jordan literly butcherd palestians with help from pakistanis (black september)
As a Muslim I appreciate your review and for showing the truth because it seems like the west is constantly trying to make it a Muslim/arab only issue and trying to isolate the Palestinians.
You’re welcome
This book is so one-sided and an Arab propaganda. They didn't even give one word about the countless massacres, violence and ethnic cleansing of the Arabs against the Jews in British mandade of Palestine during the 1947-1948 war and even before.
For example on 24 August 1929, the Arabs attacked the Jewish quarter in Hebron,killing and raping men, women and children and looting Jewish property. They killed 65-68 Jews and wounded 58, with some of the victims being tortured, or mutilated.
Sir John Chancellor, the British High Commissioner visited Hebron and later wrote to his son, "The horror of it is beyond words. In one house I visited not less than twenty-five Jews men and women were murdered in cold blood."
During the 1948 war few days before Israel declared Independence, the Arabs massacred the Jewish village of Kfar Etzion, the Arabs murdered 127 men and women. Bodies lay in the fields for a year-and-a-half, until Transjordan allowed Israel to retrieve the corpses and bury them.
DURING the war more than 15,000 Jews were violently expelled from Judea and Samia which later became known as the West Bank. many Jews were murdered and entire Jewish villages were destroyed. When the Arabs conquered East Jerusalem, they killed many Jews in the Jewish quarter who stayed there,
Destroyed all the synagogues and many churches, and destroyed the very old Jewish quarter like they did in Hebron in 1929.
AFTER the war was over the Arab states brutally expelled 900,000 Jews and thousands of Jews were murdered between the years 1948-1969. That is the real "Nakba".
But make no mistake if the Arabs won they would (as they said themselves) GENOCIDE all the Jews in that land: Azzam Pasha, the General Secretary of the Arab League said It will be a war of elimination and it will be a dangerous massacre which history will record similar to the Mongol massacre or the wars of the Crusades.” Jamal Husseini, a member of the Arab leadership said “The blood will flow like rivers in the Middle East.” Prime Minister of Iraq, Nuri al-Said, made it clear that if a Jewish state was established, “We will smash the country with our guns and obliterate every place the Jews seek shelter in.").
But most important of all people need to understand Israel isn't responsible for the brutal aggression the Arabs chose in 1947-1948 There was no ethnic cleansing against Arabs, they did it to the Jews from 1947-1969. In 1947 they started and waged a genocidal war as their leader Amin al-Husseini (who cooperated in Hitler during WW2) called it "war of annihilation" against the Jewish Yishuv after the UN decision to divide the British mandate of Palestine into two states for two people: Jewish and Arab. While the Jews accepted abd Ben Gurion called for regional Jewish-Arab cooperation, the Arabs in the British mandate refused and started a civil war. Later the entire Arab countries joined them. they started the war against the Jews, lost, and paid the price. 700,000 Arabs fled because their leaders told them the new state of Israel would be defeated quickly and also to avoid the fighting yes some few were expelled during the fighting as they cooperated with the enemy but it happened in every war back then. During the Greco-Turkish war (1919-1922) Approximately 1,500,000 Orthodox Christians and ethnic Greeks were uprooted from their homelands. During the partition of India and what followed the India-Pakistan war in 1947 between 10 and 20 million people were displaced. 18 million Germans were expelled by Poland and Czechoslovakia in 1945 after the war.
I think you’re being very hypocritical.
@@iloveyoushima how is it hypocritical?
@@iloveyoushima stop labelling some1 without any basis,
It takes courage to speak up, thanks, Mr. Heiner!
You’re welcome
Thank you for making this & giving a voice to the voiceless! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
You’re welcome
Thanks man for speaking about this, I'm not Palestinian but i read about what pappe talked about in the book since I was 8, I really hope that more people discover the truth about what Palestinians went through in the last 7 decades so hopefully we can all help them live a better future.
Me too.
Thanks for spreading the truth
@@StephenHeiner Why don't you read the truth and the Israeli story of what they went through? You think the arabss were handing them candies and flowers when the UN partition happened? Are you serious? there was MASSIVE BOMBINGS ON jews. Entire busses were blown up. They NEVER accepted a peaceful solution or an ISRAELI STATE? WHY? WHY DID ISRAEL ACCEPT PEACE AND THEY CHOOSE TO REJECT? they always REJECTED jews because JEWS MUST HAVE THE STATUS OF A "DHIMMI" OR SECOND CLASS CITIZEN TO ISLAM. EDUCATE YOURSELF THIS IS A RELIGOUS BATTLE NOT A BATTLE OVER LAND. IF ISRAEL WAS MUSLIM NOBODY WOULD BAT AN EYE 400,000 MUSLIMS WERE ETHNICALLY CLEANSED IN SYRIA BY OTHER MUSLIMS RECENTLY WERE YOU PROTESTING?
Today 2 million Arabs are citizens of Israel. How many Jews are citizens in 20 Arab countries? ZERO! This is real Ethnic Cleansing of 1 million Jews in 1948... Just fact...
Help the palestinians have a better life? Yeah, we can do that, but i think it'd be better to start off by offerring acual, implementable reall solution to the situation, a solution that is beneficial to both sides and not one that throws one side to the sharks, because there are nine millions Israelis living in that area, seven of them which are Jewish, and they're there to stay. Now, don't say it will all be fine if we just destroy the borders or give the palestinians a complete independent state just like that, because the recent events have shown us enough that it will not end peacefully. Well you might suggest that we need to change the education system, and that i agree with, but then arises the question who's education system should be changed and what to (I'll have you know that many times during my time in school we have been given the chance to learn about the diffrent narratives through meeting people [Palestinians and Israelis alike] and talking to them instead of just being told the "truth", as well as that one of the first things we were told In school after 7/10 is that any kind of discrimination against anyone or any group of people is completely unacceptable and has no place in that school). Anyway, what I'm saying is that it is more complicated than just hoping for a better future for the Palestinians, you need to offer solutions to the corrent situation instead of wanting someone else to find one, especially not the corent Israeli government, the only ones they care about is themselves, and believe it or not the Israeli people wouldn't necessarily be against it and well, they actually can do something against the government if they want to.
I’m about halfway through the audio version. There isn’t any coming back after learning the well researched and documented history of the creation of Israel. It’s extremely painful to listen to, I’ve developed throbbing migraines while going through the book. This is the history that Zionists and Israel supporters don’t want exposed. Their narrative of a beautiful flower blossoming out of the desert and the barbaric, primitive Arabs arriving recently from other regions and constantly victimizing them is what they’ve succeeded in fooling most of the world with. I am so glad that you have promoted the book.
It is a tough read in that way, yes.
The zionists have absolutely not "succeeded in fooling most of the world", just the west. The rest of us in the Global South always knew the truth.
What do you mean “don’t want exposed”? I’ve only seen one pro-Israel article in my feed today and it doesn’t seem that easy to keep this “truth” away from people.
Most White people find it difficult to defend Non White group. That s what Isreal s taking advantage of.
I admire you for reading the book, I don't know I have the courage as I am distressed about the situation even without reading it. It would be preaching to the converted as I have educated myself enough to know that what the Israelis are doing is so WRONG on every level. The people who need to read it are the supporters of Israel including our governments but they won't because they will only read propaganda that supports their current beliefs. The western support of Israel has nothing to do with right or wrong, but has everything to do with power, influence and money.
Pappe is an amazing person! His works is so important to understand the historical context of Palestinian liberation.
I’m definitely committed to reading more of his work.
Do you have other videos on his books? Norman Finklestein?
@@monicag6715 not yet
What you mean by saying palestinian liberation? It call for genocide of the Jewish people you mean? That not gonna happen.
As a foreigner I worked in Gaza many years ago. When I landed there, I realized that the narrative we were fed couldn't be further from the truth. I was shocked to say the least. I still can't understand how the world and Western countries, upholding morality and human rights ideas, cannot openly condemn the ongoing situation, and most importantly stop supporting a genocidal regime.
Are you still in touch with people there?
@@StephenHeiner yes I stayed in touch with a wonderful human being there, someone I consider like my sister. Unfortunately 3 weeks into the bombing I couldn't reach out to her anymore. She, along her family were displaced in the south from the north.
@@beaf6537 i hope they are okay
May i ask what kind of job in Gaza as a foreigner? Healthcare?
You typed the world and the west are upholding human rights and morality ? PFFTT. The world except the WEST yes. The west had no morals or even human rights to begin with. It was never there. Built on GENOCIDE of Native Indian, incans and Aborigins, mass slavery of africans, waging sensless war on WWI, WWII, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghan, Libya, even incitement of kosovo and timorleste.
Only westerners think they ar on higher moral ground and believing they are the only one upholding human rights, when every wealth and everything the WESTERN built was at the cost of blood and suffering, where palestinian blood still drenching to the colonial regime backed by the west to this day
In my youth I worked on Kibbutz Tzora as a volunteer. The American Jews drive us to the Arab borders and told us “civilisation ends here”. They also warned us to beware of the Arabs we might meet “they are not like us they don’t respect life”. Bullshit of course but as an impressionable youth I bought it.
Only last year I found out the kibbutz is built on an old Palestinian village. The villagers were driven out their homes blown up and MINED in case they returned for their belongings.
I listened to Ilan Pappes book this year. I had to listen to it twice because it’s not an easy read at times it’s just a list of atrocities one after another. It’s almost unbelievable it’s so bad, but the fact it’s by an Israeli historian makes one realise it’s true.
The game is up for the Israelis, no one except the self deluded believes them anymore. Unfortunately, their response is to label Mr Pappe as a self hating Jew and people like me who challenge their atrocities as anti semites. Thank God for brave honest Jews like Ilan Pappe.
Indeed
@StephenHeiner Look! It's an Asian guy with a Confederate flag. I have that book too. Oct 7 was allowed to happen. Netanyahu was warned ahead of time, & they had a 7hr stand down. Total scum.
@@StephenHeinerI left you a comment.
So what will you do to make the world safe for Jews following Israel’s collapse?
@@tecc-ns462 Israel is not in any danger of collapse.
I have read them. A great book. It makes you blood boil with anger and sadness reading the cruelties the Jewish militias did to the Palestinians. You will be a changed man after reading this. No amount of Israeli propaganda can turn you back, because you have read the truth.
It’s a tough read
@@jrnp-w7z wow
@@jrnp-w7z Good for you Josh. I recommend you read a memoir by Prof. Avi Shlaim "Three Worlds: Memoir of an Arab-Jew". He was also a Jew from Baghdad and fled to Israel.
@@jrnp-w7zBut you do realize that Hamas will target Jews beyond Israel’s borders, no?
@@jrnp-w7zI’ve lived through many absurd assertions that have actually become reality, so I don’t think this is much different.
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" is a book written by Ilan Pappé, an Israeli historian and academic. In this work, Pappé presents an analyses and critical examination of the events surrounding the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 and the subsequent displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
The central thesis of the book is that what took place during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, often referred to as the Nakba (Arabic for "catastrophe"), was not merely a consequence of war but a deliberate and planned campaign to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their land. Pappé argues that Israeli leaders, both before and during the war, formulated and executed policies designed to force the departure of the the native Palestinians from the areas that were to become the state of Israel.
The book draws on a range of sources, including Israeli military archives and declassified documents, to support its claims. Pappé contends that there was a systematic effort to expel Palestinians from their homes, villages, and towns, using a combination of military force, intimidation, and massacres.
100 years war on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi is another important book that covers the colonisation of Palestine (if I remember Ilan Pappe even recommends it at the beginning of his book)
Yes I may cover the Iron Cage in a future review
"100 Years War on Palestine" by Rashid Khalidi {2020, 320 pages}
Marvellous Book.
Brilliantly researched.
Beautifully written.
Essential reading for everyone
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Thanks Stephen. Speaking the truth in the current context takes some courage but is so important.
Thank you.
Thank you for this review. Americans must wake up to the fact that our government it complicit in the horrible occupation of Palestine.
Indeed
But Americans will also be complicit to the persecutions of Jews worldwide if we allow Israel to fall.
@@tecc-ns462 we cannot fight everyone’s wars. We need to allow regional conflicts to fix themselves. Israel is the only nuclear power in the region. The idea that they need our help when they have won every war they gave ever fought as a country is absurd.
@@StephenHeinerBut don’t forget that they were always the underdog and only won most of their wars thanks to our support. The fact that they pulled through in 1948 was miraculous.
@@aycc-nbh7289 no, our interventions, as almost always, were disastrous. We didn’t allow a regional controversy to resolve itself. So we have what we have today because we not only allowed a unilateral declaration of independence, we were the first to recognize it, against world opinion.
Much appreciation for shedding light on such an ever hidden tragedy
You’re welcome.
It's really important to talk about this! No one deserves to be oppressed and occupied.
Indeed
Or killed, bombed and terrorized on their own land! My heart breaks at the knowledge of the terror inflicted in the name of God! The absence of the respect for the lives of others and the covetousness for the property of others to include land owned by Palestinian ancestors for centuries!
Until I started doing research, as a Christian, I was taught to always support and pray for Israel. My eyes are open to the atrocities they have committed in order to create the State of Israel!
As a Christian I stand up for the oppressed and marginalized! I treat others as I would like my family and children to be treated! I am so grateful fir zjewudh brothers and sisters who support the peace and freedom for the "Imago Dei." We are all made in the image of God!
@@deb9784i am muslim i cant say i know the bible better than you but from my point israel is the name of prophet jacob ,you can replace any other prophet in that verse and still the verse is valid ,because israel was never a place it was called judea and befor that it was called canann and the promise was for all abraham seed,also may i recommend reading about habash and kanafani ,palestinians christians in resistance
I was begin to lend that book in my near library. I dedicated this month to read books about Palestine-Israel conflict.
Share the good ones with us here so we can learn too
This is what we study at school, middle eastern well aware about the situation. And I always get frustrated when I talk with non middle eastern and the way they talk about Palestinians as terrorists. I feel defeated.
Not defeated ~ oppressed.
Oppressed, well said
I live in the US, and I apologize for how my country was/is complicit in your oppression! No excuses!
As a Christian African American, I see it and I am horrified!
Great video. I would just add that what we call "arabs" are not just the people who came from "Hijaz" during muslim conquests. Majority are are also those who lived their before muslim conquests and converted to Islam. Even jews (who did not convert to Islam) living among muslim spoke arabic. Arabic was the lingua franca of the day. Just like how English is today. Even the great scholar of Judaism like Maimonedis spoke and wrote many books in arabic, even though he was born in muslim spain.
Yes
In fact genetic studies indicate 30% of Palestinians have Jewish genetics. In other words, a large percentage of Palestinians descendants from indigenous Jews.
Thank you. I have the book and I’m going to read it even though I already know the truth. Great review!
Thank you
Thank God, the facts are beginning to become clear. Free Palestine
Yes
you're a brave man for speaking up♥ + i also recommend these books if someone wanna read further 1- " Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation by Eyal Weizman" 2-"Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill" 3-"On Palestine by Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappé" 4-"Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha" 5-"The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948 by Eugene Rogan , Avi Shlaim " 6-" he Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance by Rashid Khalidi" . again thx for your time and enjoy reading
Thanks for sharing!
Noam chomsky the guy who says there was no Cambodian massacre and Palestinan national Identity didn't happen till 1975.
Read ma'na an nakba by constatin zureiq.
don't pigeon hole yourself into a certain narrative by confirming your biases and only reading stuff thet props up your biases.
@@succatash why don’t you do some reading against your own biases instead of repeating talking points…
@StephenHeiner why don't you do some reading against your own biases your whole video was talking points. The only 2 proven factually thingd you said are Palestinan refugees hold on to their keys, and the UN called for 2 states. The rest were opinions of what dead leaders may or may not intended based on letters that may or may not have been crossed out and plans that may have been intentional or may have just been implemented because the situation arose.
@@succatash I have a lot to learn and will share more over the next year. You’ll see if you watch any of my other videos in those series that I continue to educate myself. If you have books to share, let me know.
this is so comforting. hearing the truth is comforting . no matter how hard it is.
It is
Thank you for raising awareness on this! Thank you for speaking up on the truth! Thank you for playing a part in saving lives by speaking up and educating others on the facts.
You’re welcome.
indeed, thankyou
Thank you for making the point that we don't all have to have a take on every situation in the world. A friend called last night to spread propaganda about Palestinians being victims of their own terrorist organisations but I was sceptical. You have put your head above the parapet, and with words that I am able to understand, explained some of the relevant geopolitical history resulting in the current drama.
Thank you! ;)
Your friend wasn't trying to propagate, your voice could save a soul. This is not a random conflict on a land it's an ethnic cleansing!! People are blown into shreds 😢 if not us who would get them out of this. It could be me, my family, it could be you or someone dear to you, would you want to have people ask questions to known who is the victim or would you want them to shrug this off as you suffer all kinds of crime wars. If you could only see one picture of what is going on, you'd never stop propagating for their justice. I eave it for you to decide
@@shebasand6203The Palestinians must be held accountable for their racism.
@davidlafleche1142 this comment made me angry but I give you the benefit of the doubt. Please, we could all be mistaken about something. Palestinians had their ancestors alongside the jews as the jews and the Palestinians are both the descendants of canninite, jews left Palestinians didn't, they converted to Islam when Islam reached that area, some remained Christian other were still holding onto their Judaism (you can literally find them on UA-cam Palestinian jews/Christian) when jews came seeking shelter after ww2 Palestinians welcomed them (on google) however zionists came with the intention of taking the land they left 2000 years ago, it's crazy to use such argument, you can't just ignore the continuous existence of Palestinians, zionist gained power and stated taking more land (more than needed to settle) they took houses from Palestinians with furniture and with gardens that had olive trees, literally all belonged to Palestinians, as unjustice spread while the world couldn't say anything in fear of being labeled antisemitic, Palestinians held grudge and felt angry so they refused to split land because why would they? (Would you split your property just like that) the world started calling Palestinians haters and racist, fast forward Israel was a powerful most developed country in terms of everything, no peace treaty was respected Palestinians got angrier but the world still didn’t care, fight went back and forth and they both hate each other now for something the British started. If you call Palestinians racist I want you to listen to netwnyaho talking about the prophecy of Joshua Ben Noon a prophet of theirs who committed genocide against the melchite, he was implying genocide against Palestinians (look at what is going on in gaza 9000 people were wiped in the span of 3 weeks, look at the different between the Palestine in 1948 and now, they live in a siege, have absolutely no way out of Gaza, treated like shit and are labeled animals, and after all this you're here calling them terrorists, terrorists don't treat their hostages they way hamas is doing, please take a moment and use your critical thinking be objective and think for yourself
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Finally, some facts are shown to humanity.
Thanks Stephen for brining up this substantial topic.
You’re welcome
Sir you are one of my new favourite content creators, keep it up.
Thank you!
Great book, I'm reading his other book "10 myths about Israel" I'll start it after I finish that one. I just want to point something about 1948 War and this is essential and not talked about enough: The Arab armies "around 30 thousands soldier" from Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon only went to protect the land of the Palestinians they weren't ready of course because they faced trained Zionists (101,000 soldiers and around 200 Generals who served in the allies armies in WWII) but the important thing is they stayed within the allocated land to Palestinians by the UN. This is so important they didn't invade the land allocated to the Zionists and more importantly King Abdallah from Jordan who was the head of the Arabs army at the time went to see Golda Meir and showed her on the maps where they will stand and that they will not cross to the land allocated to them. Of course Israeli leaders wouldn't leave a chance to increase their land allocation when they saw how weak the Arabs are. BTW after the ceasefire Ben Gurion ordered the Army to Take Eilat which was an Egyptian port. Sorry for the long post!
That’s on my radar now too.
Pure islamonazi propaganda. Arab states did not want to free palestinian land because there was no palestine. Arab states wanted to land grab free land after the british left. Arabs have no shame. Arabs came to throw the jews into the sea and got destroyed. Stop crying now you islamonazi losers
@StephenHeiner is that on your radar? Or you are also one of those fake historians who claims, that jesus picture on your wall, he was a palestinian arab muslim?
I'm re-reading Pappe's 'Ten Myths about Israel'. In his chapter 'The Gaza Mythologies' he dismissively refers to the 'far-fetched image of Hamas as a group of ruthless and insane fanatics'. In the light of recent atrocities that hasn't aged well.
@@billaitken2989looking forward to reading this, still.
Thank you, I would like to read the book now. Love from a Muslim in Denmark 😊
let us know what you thought after you read it
Watch the lastest video by Abdullah Elsharif, he's talking about the history of Jews
You don't have to be Muslim or Arab to emphatize and stand with the Palastinians, you just have to be human. Despite the horrors they have been through, they are still resolute in their fate. I will even say they have the strongest fate in God of all the Muslims in the world.
No one can call them quitters, that’s for sure.
I read this book few weeks ago and it has changed my perspective on the Palestinian and Israel’s history. It’s much different than all the narrow narratives media keep feeding us. I highly recommend this book.
Thanks
What a thoughtful presentation. Thank you.
Thank you
Thank you for your call to search for actual facts beyond the news propaganda. People think that the reality is too complex and while it may be, the start of bread crumbs (especially regarding the current war crimes) is so accessible today, just beyond a false corporate news veil, and in the reports, literature, and on-the-ground documentation of the facts. You are doing a good job to the people around you by uncovering a way to these truths. Subscribed.❤
Thank you
I’m glad you have the courage to review this book, especially now that’s it’s needed most. I’m sure you’ve gotten plenty of flack. Have a Merry Christmas.
Native American Anishnabe stand with Palestine!🇵🇸
Thank you
Great review Stephen, maybe you should read some books by Norman Finkelstein to get a better idea about the conflict
Is there one you think I should start with?
@@StephenHeiner He is a great writer, but I like this one: Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom: Finkelstein, Norman. By the way, he gave an interesting presentation this week about the conflict, you can find it on youtube: Israel/Palestine: The History and What’s Real? Opposing Views with Norman Finkelstein and David Brog
Thank you so much for your review!!! I have read it twice and it is a really hard reading... Pappe is an historian part of the Israeli historians from the 80s called the revisionists because they started to fact check the myth of a land without people for a people without a land. In that group you can find other Israeli historians such as Avi Shlaim and Benny Morris. I think you can also complement Pappe with The Palestinian Identity by the Palestinian Historian Rashid Khalidi.
Iron Cage is next on my list ;)
This book by Arab propogandist is so one-sided and an Arab propaganda. They didn't even give one word about the countless massacres, violence and ethnic cleansing of the Arabs against the Jews in British mandade of Palestine during the 1947-1948 war and even before.
For example on 24 August 1929, the Arabs attacked the Jewish quarter in Hebron,killing and raping men, women and children and looting Jewish property. They killed 65-68 Jews and wounded 58, with some of the victims being tortured, or mutilated.
Sir John Chancellor, the British High Commissioner visited Hebron and later wrote to his son, "The horror of it is beyond words. In one house I visited not less than twenty-five Jews men and women were murdered in cold blood."
During the 1948 war, on May 4 Arabs conqered the Jewish vilkige if Kfar Etzion after 8 months of brutal siege. the Arabs then massacred the entire Jewish village, the Arabs murdered 127 men and women. Bodies lay in the fields for a year-and-a-half, until Transjordan allowed Israel to retrieve the corpses and bury them.
DURING the war more than 15,000 Jews were violently expelled from Judea and Samia which later became known as the West Bank. many Jews were murdered and entire Jewish villages were destroyed. When the Arabs conquered East Jerusalem, they killed many Jews in the Jewish quarter who stayed there,
Destroyed all the synagogues and many churches, and destroyed the very old Jewish quarter like they did in Hebron in 1929.
AFTER the war was over the Arab states brutally expelled 900,000 Jews and thousands of Jews were murdered between the years 1948-1969. That is the real "Nakba".
But make no mistake if the Arabs won they would (as they said themselves) GENOCIDE all the Jews in that land: Azzam Pasha, the General Secretary of the Arab League said It will be a war of elimination and it will be a dangerous massacre which history will record similar to the Mongol massacre or the wars of the Crusades.” Jamal Husseini, a member of the Arab leadership said “The blood will flow like rivers in the Middle East.” Prime Minister of Iraq, Nuri al-Said, made it clear that if a Jewish state was established, “We will smash the country with our guns and obliterate every place the Jews seek shelter in.").
But most important of all people need to understand Israel isn't responsible for the brutal aggression the Arabs chose in 1947-1948 There was no ethnic cleansing against Arabs, they did it to the Jews from 1947-1969. In 1947 they started and waged a genocidal war as their leader Amin al-Husseini (who cooperated in Hitler during WW2) called it "war of annihilation" against the Jewish Yishuv after the UN decision to divide the British mandate of Palestine into two states for two people: Jewish and Arab. While the Jews accepted abd Ben Gurion called for regional Jewish-Arab cooperation, the Arabs in the British mandate refused and started a civil war. Later the entire Arab countries joined them. they started the war against the Jews, lost, and paid the price. 700,000 Arabs fled because their leaders told them the new state of Israel would be defeated quickly and also to avoid the fighting yes some few were expelled during the fighting as they cooperated with the enemy but it happened in every war back then. During the Greco-Turkish war (1919-1922) Approximately 1,500,000 Orthodox Christians and ethnic Greeks were uprooted from their homelands. During the partition of India and what followed the India-Pakistan war in 1947 between 10 and 20 million people were displaced. 18 million Germans were expelled by Poland and Czechoslovakia in 1945 after the war.
Excellent video ! I'm from Belgium so I'm going to buy this book in French !
Great. Let us know what you think when you finish ;)
Oui
Also Ilan Pappè, "The biggest prison on earth" is interesting
Thank you for your content, its very instructive.
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Thank you for this review!
You’re welcome!
Thank you. A very good book selection.
Very informative. A timely introduction to an authentic historical record of how big powers trampled on the rights of smaller nations and deprived them of their homes and even lives.
Thank you again.
Thank you
Israel was a "big power"? You have to be kidding me. About a third of Jews had already been murdered and the Arab world wanted to finish the job. But the Jews were the oppressors?
I was raised an ardent Zionist, never even properly exposed to the counterarguments. I stopped being Zionist around Operation Cast Lead, when the overwhelmingly disproportionate body count of Palestinians to Israelis made me rethink everything I was taught. I began to realize that a lot of the jingoism I was hearing from the people I was raised with resembled stuff that anti-Semites say about Jews.
I’ve recently discovered Pappe. He really sums up very eloquently the many misconceptions I was raised with and why they are wrong. A great first read for anyone questioning their Zionistic beliefs and looking to explore alternatives.
That's very important book. Thank you for sharing. Please try to share about (10 myths about Israel) for professor ilan pappe too
I will add it to the list!
After 100k views here are are some general comments:
1. There are some who are saying, “well there are millions of Palestinians in Israel now so what ethnic cleansing are you talking about?”
These same people would argue that since there are still Armenians in Armenia or Bosnians in Bosnia that no ethnic cleansing happened there either. We will leave them in their willful ignorance. Ethnic cleansing is not only murder, but displacement and dispossession. The “no ethnic cleansing” people would have us believe that the millions of refugees in Jordan just popped out of the desert.
2. Plenty want to shoot the messenger, Ilan Pappè. The number one “proof” that is cited? The opinion of Benny Morris.
Morris has his own skeletons as well. No historian is perfect. And don’t worry, I’ll be reviewing Morris too. But this book of Pappe’s has plenty of footnotes.
3. Some want to say there was no such thing as Palestine or Palestinians. This flies in the face of events prior to 1948, including a very famous newspaper called Filastin, edited by Isa al-Isa, and shut down by the British numerous times.
4. Yes I want peace and I talked about some
obstacles to that peace in another video, Peace in the Promised Land. Despite the injustice of how Israel was established I accept the PLO/PA position that Israel has a right to exist. ua-cam.com/video/WUpCd4K8Znw/v-deo.htmlsi=lvaCd9zEwf8Zz174
5. Yes, that’s a confederate battle flag. If you wish to actually learn more instead of just calling me names: ua-cam.com/video/FCB-2_2GgI0/v-deo.htmlsi=GBUXv_XS4IEEuMxd&t=170
6. Apparently I look like Elon Musk to some of you. I don’t have a good explanation for that as I have no ethnic ties to SA ;)
I am a Jew from Israel. I agree with everything you've said above (including the Elon Musk part) and with Ilan Pappe. But there are other issues as well, including extreme Muslim groups, ties between Palestine and the evil Chinese communist regime that persecutes Falun Dafa practitioners. Those things play an effect as well.
You talk as if the surrounding nations didn't try to crush Israel - " the only nuclear nation playing the victim " . Of course 6-7 surrounding countries did try to obliterate Israel. 1948 and again 1967. They are still doing it covertly.
I have heard interviews on the streets of gaza and west bank where 100% of people interviewed said they will rather teach their children to hate Jews than live in peace with them.
And lastly why is Israel and its actions always front and center but not the atrocities of US, China, Saudi( to its own people and Yemen), Syria, Pakistan (against 2 million Afghans) not in the news. Of course they feel they are victims
1. there are still Jews in Germany
3. you can find photos of Palestinian passports, issued by the British
Israel cannot exist as Israel. Jews can stay as Palestinians and have same rights as everybody else. Jews lived there before the zionist movement under Ottoman empire.
1. that mean there decrease of palestinian as it to suppress them but that not what happening plus arabs still living freely in israel better than neighbouring country, the rwanda genocide would speak diferently about it,
I'm not taking other point, but I think that should be a clear message,
fyi this is called war, it what gonna be happen
Thank you for reviewing this book objectively. I have since shared your content with others. Very helpful indeed.
You are welcome and thanks for sharing
"The tale of Palestine from the beginning until today is a simple story of colonialism and dispossession,yet the world treats it as a multifaceted and complex story - hard to understand and even harder to solve"
- Noam Chomsky
Can’t wait to see any reviews on Native American/Native Alaskan and First Nations of Canada authored books! Here for this title!
Thank you, this was a well laid out balanced review. I have this book lined up to read next.
Let us know what you think when you finish it!
Firstly, what a great video. I've never heard of this book, but I know the author. Thank you for this thorough review. Subbed :) Keep up the Good work.
Thank you.
Excellent book by a serious scholar
Indeed
can you suggest more books like this to understand the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people? thankyou for this! much needed
Next would be The Iron Cage by Rashid Khalidi
The dense, definitive academic standard about the situation is Fateful Triangle by Noam Chomsky. Other authors are Schlomo Sand, Norman Finkelstein and, to an extent, Benny Morris. The Zionist archives were opened to Israel's FOIA equivalent in the early 80s. Since then, Israel can't hide from the truth.
I wish more people would read (and question), in general but especially on this topic. Because the facts and experiences clearly indicate that Isreal have been committing atrocities for a long time. I'm South African, my parents and siblings were born under the Apartheid regime while I was the first child in my family born after. So my perspective of learning the plight of the Palestinian people is from the perspective of my own history which makes it incredibly frustrating to see ignorant people deny such systems of oppression.
Great video ! I hope it encourages more people to read this book and the many others.
"We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians." -- Mandela
I have so much respect for you for opening the eyes of the world on the oppression Palestinians have been and are going through. I’m definitely adding this book to my reading list.
Let us know when you’re done reading it!
Thank you for sharing this book, right time for it. We only hear one side.
You’re welcome.
Yes, we only hear the side of “Israel bad, Hamas good”.
The Book : The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Ilan Pappé. An Excellent book. I Haven't yet finished it.
Good reading.
It’s amazing how many who go do some reading on the subject or just ask questions, come back to discover just how much the media has not shown us over the years. Great review
Thanks
I read this book about 10 years ago……..it is a powerful work and it helped me understand the dynamics of the Israel/Palestine problem.
What else have you read that has helped you understand the situation?
Thank you Stephen, I have ordered Ilan Pappe’s book. I just watched a documentary video on a Palestinian father and his family that lives in the West Bank. It’s called “5 Broken Cameras”. It’s on You Tube. I also watched a video on You Tube called “Israeli Soldier Explosive Tell All”. He was an Israeli soldier and spoke about the atrocities he had to do while in the army. There are quite a few former Israeli soldiers coming forward and speaking about their job as soldiers.
Thanks for sharing!
Thankyou for the book report. I have subbed and hope you do this all the time. This book is in my maibox now.
I follow another Book reporter, plus i now have an extensive Library of my own.
Thankyou again, you have made a contribution to the World.❤
I meant....a GREAT contribution. 🙂
Thanks!
A superb review of the book with absolute clarity. Loved it. Thank you. I request you to review the book The Question Of Palestine by Edward Said whenever you find it convenient.
Thanks for the suggestion!
A lots of people don’t know and people who know, pay blind eyes because their houses are not on fire
used to be one of those people who think those free Palestine chanting was annoying, until i took the time to dig deeper and found out how much the media was trying to hide from the public
Thank you for your Wonderful Heads-up on this likely very Insightful and informative Book about the causes of the Palestinian Crisis❤. Would really love to read this book as and when available
I have links to the audio and kindle versions in the description. Those are available right now.
i was about to pick up this book as well. Currently reading "The Hundred Year War On Palestine" by american-palestinian historian/academic Rashid Khalidi. do a review of that one as well if you havent yet. would love to know your opinion.
Thanks for adding to the list ;)
a great review of a great book.
Thank you
I really enjoyed your video. Your experience was much closer to first hand than most others. I very much appreciate the call to objectivity and independent fact finding. Thanks for this video.
You are welcome
I stumbled across this video as it was a YT suggestion. I am familiar with Mr. Pappe having seen hm speak in videos. He is an authority on Palestine. I think you did a very good review of Pappe's book and plan to read it. I am so impressed that you traveled to Palestine (Hebron) and can speak from personal experience. Thank you for your frank review, Stephen. I am glad to discover your book review channel.
Thank you!
I have read this book and it is one of the best books that explain the Palestinian issue
Do you have others to recommend?
Thank you Stephen, this was a pretty good review, understandable. But this book isn't available on either amazon or ebay, or maybe it just gets sold out too quickly cus of the current situation.
The kindle and audio versions shouldn’t be able to sell out. That’s why I linked to them.
I am listening to the audioboom on youtube
Many Jews have dual citizenship, whereas Palestinians displaced due to ethnic cleansing often lack citizenship in the Arab countries they fled to. Palestinians in various nations receive refugee travel documents with limited rights, restricting their freedom, property ownership, and full citizenship privileges. This has led to generations of suffering caused by Jewish settlers and the state of Israel.
Thank you for pointing out historical facts and you experience from visiting the holy land
Thank you
Great review! It's a great book.. Very painful for me to read as a Palestinian American, but it needs to be read. Tantura is a documentary I would like to watch soon, but the clips I've seen have made me sick to my core. I am going to have to watch it in segments.
I imagine
Returning after 3000 years is really hilarious
No, most people in the region are descended from those who migrated after 1918. And prior to then, this entire thing started to to racism against Jews in the Ottoman Empire.
Thank you for this video. You ate showing great courage..
I really enjoyed how you spoke about this! I’m a new subscriber I’m excited to watch more content from you
Thanks
Thank you, Stephen. Extremely useful
Glad you liked it ;)
Thanks!
Wow thank you!
Thank you for your bravery, humanity, honesty and knowledge.
you are welcome
I ordered this book! 📚
Which version?
I read a fiction " The blue between sky and water" that had a lot of references to actual historical events like when Israel bulldozed Rachel Corrie, a sweet American woman, for standing upto the idf bulldozing Palestinian homes. May you rest in Peace Corrie❤. I have heard Palestinians have a street or landmark named after her. FREE PALESTINE FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA!
I just finished reading this book, too. It is an eye opener in so many ways. Not only does it shed a bright light on the ethnic cleansing of 1948, the ongoing brutal occupation and ethnic cleansing efforts, but also on the propaganda machine that has helped Israel be the oppressor yet remain seen as a victim in the rest of the world and in Israel.
Currently reading "Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe - On Palestine ". "They Call Me a Lioness" by Ahed Tamimi and Deba Takruri will be next. The more we know and understand about history and the current struggles of the Palestinians, the harder we are to fool.
Indeed
So what can we do to help stop this propaganda machine? I’ve only seen a handful of pro-Israel articles and videos in my feed since the war started and I’m fearful that riots will break out in my home state.
Thank you Brother. Your review and commentary was educating. I'm interested in this book.
I’m glad
Thank you for this excellent review. I have the book planning to read it next.
Let us know what you think when you are finished
God bless you my brother, it's sad that people do not even start off being impartial about things they have no knowledge of.
I get this is an emotional issue but I don’t get people just blindly defending when they haven’t even read one thing about it.
Thank you for this great information, I look forward to reading this book.
You’re welcome
thank you for reviewing such an insightful and relevant book. enjoyed listening!
You are welcome
Thank you so much. I will definitely buy the book. God bless you, thank you for standing up for the truth.
You’re welcome
This is the thinkg that fills me with hope seeing people sreach through history to learn the truth thank you
We all need to keep learning
Thank you . Great book, and great presentation
thank you
I'm buying this for my son for Christmas.
Is he open to learning about these things?
It is also important to know when the British promised Palestine as a homeland, it only had a 10% Jewish minority ( 1917 Balfour Declaration) This is why to describe it as a colonial settlement is legitimate.
The British had no moral or legal right to do something like this and they’re basically just packing up and leaving at the end only underlines this.
I finished reading this book in 2023 and I cried in shock through many pages!
I understand.
As a Palestinian Canadian who was born in Jordan, I watched my parents watch the Arab news so closely, while I was being educated in Canada. There were no mentions of my own people's persecution in the schools. All we ever got were the hardships of the Holocaust and Native Canadians. It was many years later where I started to slowly learn about my ethnicity, but it came to a halt when 9-11 happened. There was a stigma that young Arabs felt where they kind of had to hide their identity. I remember when a person asked me where I was from, I would say Jordan, instead of Palestine because of either fear or embarrassment. I realized in my 20s, I had some identity problem, where I didn't know where I belonged in the Western world (Imposter Syndrome). I learned its much easier to handle as long as I stay close to my family/relatives and Arab community. When my parents told me about my family's history and how both of my Grandfathers were part of the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, it made me question what I learned in the Western world. I noticed the media were never on the side of the Arabs and never on the side of who is truly persecuted. After that is when I started to understand why my parents were watching the Arab news in the first place; it was because we were living in a country that was never on our side. I'm in my 30s now and I'm skeptical, but also hopeful that one day peace will shine through the eyes of every child in that region.
I appreciate your optimism. Some
commenters here would say that since your grandfathers are not approved “reputable” authors, their stories are not true lol. But we know their stories are true and thank you for sharing.
Hearing the truth finally being revealed and becoming mainstream is refreshing my faith in humanity
Too much info available to be ignored…
Imagine occupying a people for 75 years and still not understanding that “Arab” is not an ethnicity as we understand it from a western perspective. While these countries share some culture and a base language they’re vastly different from each other like a Moroccan is not a Saudi is not an Egyptian is not a Palestinian so no Palestinians didn’t have “other Arab countries to go to”. Even each Palestinian village has their own dialect their own traditional clothing and food and practices. It’s a very ignorant and violent argument to make but that’s what Zionism is at the end of the day violent settler colonialism that views it subjects as animals
Yes
Thank you for speaking up 🙏 Very well said.
You’re welcome