The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

By: Ilan Pappe

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins

Publisher's summary

Renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking book revisits the formation of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred, and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint.

Denied for almost six decades, had it happened today it could only have been called "ethnic cleansing." Decisively debunking the myth that the Palestinian population left of their own accord in the course of this war, Ilan Pappe offers impressive archival evidence to demonstrate that, from its very inception, a central plank in Israel's founding ideology was the forcible removal of the indigenous population. This is an indispensable book for anyone interested in the current crisis in the Middle East.

©2006 Ilan Pappe (P)2017 Tantor

Important

It’s so much more important than anything to bring all the people together to put a stop to genocide around the world.

Hard Listen

This was a hard listen, but I’m glad I did. I’m ashamed of what I did not know prior to reading. 4 stars on the performance because I just had a hard time tracking with his voice, but I did appreciate the pronunciation being (seemingly) accurate.

Highly recommend! Must read!

Wonderful, easy to follow and detailed. An absolute must read! I had not read any prior work on the subject, but now feel I have a good understanding.

Interesting book, trusted source

It is a historical book so for some may be boring but it shows those elements of the history which are not very popular and widely known. The lector was struggling a lot with original names what was natural but also little bit irritating sometimes

Excellent and thorough

This book is the authority on the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. The author is well researched and just.

Important history, very poor voice performance

This book, by a Jewish Israeli, documents the narrative that is rarely heard in the propaganda-flooded mainstream conversation about the history of Israel and Palestine. It provides an important historical analysis of what happened to the Palestinians during the Nakba, "the great catastrophe": the 1948 establishment of Israel. The book is best read in hardcopy or e-book format, because this audiobook version unfortunately suffers from an extremely poor voice performance. The narrator would have been suitable for a documentary film, but here, his performance is pedantic, overacted, and out of proportion to the material's format. His Sephardic Hebrew and Arabic pronunciations are exaggerated, artificial, and sometimes incorrect.

Fundamental read

The detail this book gives is fundamental to understanding the situation and history of the region.

Deeply Painful!

This is one of THEE most painful books I have ever read.

A must read for all.

a enlightening point if read dialogically

There was a lot of history to go through and it took awhile. But it presents a different point of view to the Israeli Palestinian issue than is commonly heard or understood in the United States. This kind of understanding of each other's point of view is essential if dialogue is to ever bring about peace in this "hunger games" of a world. May in this one example dialogue And understanding win.

History but yet reality of today

This narration of an atrocious acts of a nation upon the Palestinians has come to a real life 3D experience of what is taking place in Gaza right now in 2023.