“Ilan Pappe is Israel’s bravest, most principled, most incisive historian.” - John Pilger The 1948 Palestine-Israel War is known to Israelis as “The War of Independence”, but for Palestinians it will forever be the Nakba, the “catastrophe”.
Alongside the creation of the State of Israel, the end of the war led to one of the largest forced migrations in modern history. Around a million people were expelled from their homes at gunpoint, civilians were massacred, and hundreds of Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed. Though the truth about the mass expulsion has been systematically distorted and suppressed, had it taken place in the twenty-first century it could only have been called “ethnic cleansing”.
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Alongside the creation of the State of Israel, the end of the war led to one of the largest forced migrations in modern history. Around a million people were expelled from their homes at gunpoint, civilians were massacred, and hundreds of Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed. Though the truth about the mass expulsion has been systematically distorted and suppressed, had it taken place in the twenty-first century it could only have been called “ethnic cleansing”.
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