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Ten Myths About Israel Kindle Edition

by Ilan Pappe (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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The myths and reality behind the state of Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—from “the most eloquent writer on Palestinian history” (New Statesman)

The outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel.
 
The “ten myths”—repeated endlessly in the media, enforced by the military, and accepted without question by the world’s governments—reinforce the regional status quo and include:
 
• Palestine was an empty land at the time of the Balfour Declaration.
• The Jews were a people without a land.
• There is no difference between Zionism and Judaism.
• Zionism is not a colonial project of occupation.
• The Palestinians left their Homeland voluntarily in 1948.
• The June 1967 War was a war of ‘No Choice’.
• Israel is the only Democracy in the Middle East.
• The Oslo Mythologies
• The Gaza Mythologies
• The Two-State Solution

For students, activists, and anyone interested in better understanding the news, Ten Myths About Israel is another groundbreaking study of the Israel-Palestine conflict from the author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.
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“Ilan Pappe is Israel’s bravest, most principled, most incisive historian.”
 —John Pilger

“One of the most prominent Israeli political dissidents living in exile … He is also one of the few Israeli students of the conflict who write about the Palestinian side with real knowledge and empathy.”
 —Avi Shlaim, Guardian

“Along with Edward Said, Ilan Pappe is the most eloquent writer of Palestinian history.”
 —New Statesman

“Ten Myths About Israel is a useful primer for people just becoming familiar with the Palestinian liberation struggle—but it is far more than that. It is also a valuable tool for veteran organizers seeking to explain cogently and simply how Israel’s foundational myths and ongoing propaganda perpetuate the oppression of the Palestinian people.”
—Electronic Intifada

“This book is an absolute must for an interested public, the political and the media class to understand what Israel is all about.”
 —American Herald Tribune

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“Ilan Pappe is Israel’s bravest, most principled, most incisive historian.”
 —John Pilger

“One of the most prominent Israeli political dissidents living in exile … He is also one of the few Israeli students of the conflict who write about the Palestinian side with real knowledge and empathy.”
 —Avi Shlaim, Guardian

“Along with Edward Said, Ilan Pappe is the most eloquent writer of Palestinian history.”
 —New Statesman

“Ten Myths About Israel is a useful primer for people just becoming familiar with the Palestinian liberation struggle—but it is far more than that. It is also a valuable tool for veteran organizers seeking to explain cogently and simply how Israel’s foundational myths and ongoing propaganda perpetuate the oppression of the Palestinian people.”
—Electronic Intifada

“This book is an absolute must for an interested public, the political and the media class to understand what Israel is all about.”
 —American Herald Tribune

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01I85OZG8
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Verso (May 2, 2017)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 2, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1255 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 211 pages
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M. Webster
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book on Israel/Palestine
Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2024
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This is an important read for anyone who wants to understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Very readable, very informative, and very well-researched by a renowned Israeli history professor.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent work - very relevant
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2023
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A totally relevant consideration of all the issues surrounding how we got to where we are now and what needs to be done to proceed in a fair way.
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"samyaljamal"
5.0 out of 5 stars reality check
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2024
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This book changed my view about the whole conflict . It gave me a new understanding of the history and future solutions
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Michael Pappie
4.0 out of 5 stars Informative
Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2018
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Is Israel a secular country or a religious country? Was its creation and birth legitimate or illegitimate? God inspired or purely political? If Israel identifies itself as a purely political and secular state, then it cannot lay claim to being the recipient of any divine mandate. If Israel claims divine sanction, then she cannot be secular. She must be guided by one principle or the other. If God has truly willed a return of the Jewish People to their ancient homeland then what are we to make of the unjust, and often cruel, treatment of the Palestinian people at the hands of the Jewish settlers ? According to the Bible, Israel as a nation prospered, and was allowed to exist, as long as she maintained a pure unadulterated fidelity to God. If the nation abandoned that mission then it wasn’t long before she was led into captivity.
Whether you believe that modern day Israel was willed into being by a higher power, or through Zionistic political dexterity; it is a political fact and reality. At issue in Mr. Pappe’s book is the treatment of the Palestinian people.
I gave the book 4 stars out of 5. I would have liked to have given it 5 stars. The reason I did not was because, at the end of his book, in a somewhat supercilious and pontificating way, he takes liberty to disparage and castigate the United States. I feel this was an overreach on Mr. Pappe’s part and somewhat far afield from his original subject matter.
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Musab T.
5.0 out of 5 stars A great book from someone who knows both sides well
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2024
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A great book to understand the struggle for Palestine and the reality of the project israel. Illan Pappe is an Israeli author who knows what he is talking about
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Amr abualrub
5.0 out of 5 stars I consider Pappe to be a good representative of the Palestinian cause from the Israeli perspective
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2018
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I consider Pappe to be a good representative of the Palestinian cause from the Israeli perspective. In this book he deals with the issue of Palestine from the perspective of an Israeli, and also from the perspective of dispelling myths that Israelis and Israeli sympathizers have. He called this book, “Ten Myths About Israel.” He brilliantly divides his book into three categories: the past Myths, the present ones, and the future ones.

The first category deals with fallacies of the past. In this section, he discusses a number of myths, proving that Palestine was, indeed, a vibrant and very active place, comprised of both rural and urban communities, and with its own records, especially since it was under Ottoman rule. Palestine was also known to have a series of port cities that allowed for trade with Europe and other parts of the world. However, little did those Europeans know they were dealing with no one on the other side.

He also discusses one of the most often repeated myths about Israel, which is that the Jewish people in Europe had no land. It stems from another myth, though, that the Jewish migrants from Europe were Jewish in ethnicity at all. They were not. Pappe states, “Arthur Koestler wrote The Thirteenth Tribe (1976), in which where advanced the theory that the Jewish settlers were descended from the Khazars, a Turkish nation of the Caucasus that converted to Judaism in the eighth century and was later forced to move westward.” This is a good summary of who the Jewish immigrants were. They were Europeans who wanted a moral justification for colonization. This brings us to the next point, which is that Zionism is a colonist project, not a religious one, aimed at exploitation of the land and resources of the Palestinians, all the while trying to establish their own government in that midst.

He also discusses very important and relevant topics of today, such as whether or not Israel is truly a democracy. Here, he shows how the Israelis manipulate land and naturalization in order to manipulate elections. Further, he discusses the Oslo Accord and whether or not a two-state solution would work (hint: it would never work).

All in all, I give the book a 9.5 out of 10, only because he could have combined a couple of chapters for readability.

Buy this book and read it.
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slydero
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent telling of history
Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2023
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This book is an excellent, compassionate and unbiased explanation of how and why Israel came to be. Give it a read.
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Alex
5.0 out of 5 stars Truth may hurt for some folks out there
Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2023
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Illan is a very fact based Jewish historian. Many things you know are factually incorrect. Give it a read to understand why.
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J. Laiter
5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensable
Reviewed in Mexico on April 20, 2024
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basico entender este libro para no caer en las redes de la propaganda.
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linda rogers
5.0 out of 5 stars A Jew Deconstructs Zionism
Reviewed in Canada on February 6, 2024
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Courage comes from those with the most to lose. Like Schlomo Sand , Amos Os et al, Pappe is David with a slingshot, firing logic at Goliath, the construct of the military industrial complex, oligarchs who control the world and its diminished assets.

He provides a logical outline for the development of Zionism within colonialism, a concept that would eventually rid Europe of "others" and atone for the outrageous nemesis of power that was the Third Reich.

But no one asked the Palestinians if they would all move aside, abandon their paradisiacal realm, so the myth of reclaiming the desert would encourage Jews in the mythical diaspora to invest in a dream.

This is an inspiring notion but, Pappe argues coherently, a false one leading to the genocide we are witnessing, despair and resistance to tyranny described as anti-semitism, when many Jews claiming the right of return would never pass muster on a DNA origin test.

The two state solution is, he argues, a failed marriage. The only way for the Palestinians and settlers to survive intact is to live in peace, which is as true wherever there is war as it is in the holy land which, like all land belongs only to itself.

Pappe's book is another interesting and courageous plea for decency and the doctrine of moderate need, all things for all men and women, amen.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wow
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 26, 2024
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So much truth & interesting facts! A very good read this far
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Bilagaana
5.0 out of 5 stars A LIRE ABSOLUMENT
Reviewed in France on April 3, 2018
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Dommage, ce livre n'est pas encore traduit, malgré tout on n'a pas besoin d'être un champion en anglais. Avec ce livre vous ne mourrez pas idiots et pourrez clouer le bec de ceux qui vous traitent d'antisémites. Même si on n'est pas complètement ignare on apprend beaucoup sur les soit disant vérités sur le passer d'Israel.
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