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• Preface
• Introduction: Narrating a Contested Country
• 1. From Palestine into Israel, 1800-1948
• 2. The "Small Israel", 1948-1967
• 3. The Greater Israel, 1967-2000
• 4. The Political Economy of Israel
• 5. Culture and Society in 21st Century Israel
• 6. Israel's Place in the World
• Epilogue: Israel's in the World Today.
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Israel is not the only `new' state around, but it is one of the few states whose legitimacy is still questioned, and its future affects the future of the Middle East as a whole and probably the stability of the international system. The reasons for this unique reality lie in its past and the particular historical circumstances of its birth. This book seeks to update analysis of the political history, contemporary politics, economics and foreign policy of this unique state. The first part of the book provides a general history of Israel since its inception until 2000. This general history evolves around the political development of the state, beginning with its origins in the early Zionist history (1882-1948) and ending with the turn of the century. The second part focuses on three contemporary aspects of present-day Israel: its political economy, its culture and its international relations. An epilogue describes Israel's complex international image today and its impact on the state and its future. Providing a solid infrastructure from which readers can form their own opinions, this book offers a fresh perspective on developments both on the ground and in recent scholarship, and is essential reading for students, journalists and policy makers with an interest in Middle Eastern History, Jewish Studies and Israel Studies.
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Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2017 From the author of the bestselling study of the 1948 War of Independence comes an incisive look at the Occupied Territories, picking up the story where The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine left off. In this comprehensive exploration of one of the world's most prolonged and tragic conflicts, Pappe uses recently declassified archival material to analyse the motivations and strategies of the generals and politicians - and the decision-making process itself - that laid the foundation of the occupation. From a survey of the legal and bureaucratic infrastructures that were put in place to control the population of over one million Palestinians, to the security mechanisms that vigorously enforced that control, Pappe paints a picture of what is to all intents and purposes the world's largest `open prison'.
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• Part I. Fallacies of the past.
• 1. Palestine was an empty land
• 2. The Jews were a people without a land
• 3. Zionism is Judaism
• 4. Zionism is not colonialism
• 5. The Palestinians voluntarily left their homeland in 1948
• 6. The June 1967 war was a war of "No Choice"
• Part II. Fallacies of the present.
• 7. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East
• 8. The Oslo mythologies
• 9. The Gaza mythologies
• Part III. Looking ahead.
• 10. The two-states solution Is the only way forward
• Conclusion: The settler colonial state of Israel in the twenty-first century.

In this groundbreaking book, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, 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" that Pappe explores-repeated endlessly in the media, enforced by the military, accepted without question by the world's governments-reinforce the regional status quo. He explores the claim that Palestine was an empty land at the time of the Balfour Declaration, as well as the formation of Zionism and its role in the early decades of nation building. He asks whether the Palestinians voluntarily left their homeland in 1948, and whether June 1967 was a war of "no choice." Turning to the myths surrounding the failures of the Camp David Accords and the official reasons for the attacks on Gaza, Pappe explains why the two-state solution is no longer viable.
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• Introduction: debating the idea of Israel
• Pt.
• 1. The scholarly and fictional idea of Israel
• The 'objective' history of the land and the people
• The alien who became a terrorist: the Palestinian in Zionist thought
• The war of 1948 in word and image
• Pt.
• 2. Israel's post-Zionist moment
• The trailblazers
• Recognizing the Palestinian catastrophe: the 1948 war revisited
• The emergence of post-Zionist academia, 1990-2000
• Touching the raw nerves of society: Holocaust memory in Israel
• The idea of Israel and the Arab Jews
• The post-Zionist cultural moment
• On the Post-Zionist stage and screen
• The triumph of neo-Zionism
• The neo-Zionist new historians
• Epilogue: brand Israel 2013.

Since Israel's foundation in 1948, one guiding idea has been the cornerstone of its identity, its politics and its actions: Zionism. In this groundbreaking new history, Ilan Pappe looks at the role of ideology in Israel's development, from its inception to the present day. In doing so, he considers the role of the country's universities, education system and media, looking at their production of knowledge and information, and the way such knowledge has been used to provide an ideological scaffolding for the state and to shape realities on the ground. He explores how, in the course of one decade, the Oslo years of the 1990s, this idea came under sustained questioning for the first time - since when, former critics have once more rallied round the national consensus. Was this episode, he asks, a one-off, or does it promise a new direction for Israel? In exploring the links between academic and media institutions, and the state, The Idea of Israel explores a topic that resonates throughout the western world: the fraught interrelationship between the production of knowledge and the exercise of power.
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• Introduction; the ten mythologies of israel; the fate of palestine: an interview with noam chomsky; clusters of history: u.s. involvement in the palestine question; state of denial: the nakbah in israeli history and today; "exterminate all the brutes": gaza 2009; blueprint for a one-state movement: a troubled history; reframing the israel-palestine conflict: "israel is not a democracy"; the ghettoization of palestine: a dialogue with ilan pappé and noam chomsky; the killing fields of gaza, 2004-2009; a middle east peace that could happen (but won't); interview with noam chomsky.

• Acknowledgmentsa note on the text; notes; index; about the contributors.

As Israel continues its barbaric assault on Gaza, Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe put the recent campaign against Gaza.

• Prologue : Hostile aliens in their own homeland
• Introduction
• Out of the ashes of the Nakbah
• The open wound: military rule and its lasting impact
• Military rule by other means, 1967-1977
• Between the day of the land and the first intifada, 1976-1987
• After the first intifada: between Palestinian assertiveness and Jewish uncertainty, 1987-1995
• The hopeful years and their demise, 1995-2000
• The 2000 earthquake and its impact
• Epilogue : The oppressive state.

For more than 60 years, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have lived as Israeli citizens within the borders of the nation formed at the end of the 1948 conflict. Occupying a precarious middle ground between the Jewish citizens of Israel and the dispossessed Palestinians of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Palestinians have developed an exceedingly complex relationship with the land they call home; however, in the innumerable discussions of the Israel-Palestine problem, their experiences are often overlooked and forgotten. In this book, historian Ilan Pappe examines how Israeli Palestinians have fared under Jewish rule and what their lives tell us about both Israel's attitude toward minorities and Palestinians' attitudes toward the Jewish state. Drawing upon significant archival and interview material, Pappe analyzes the Israeli state's policy towards its Palestinian citizens, finding discrimination in matters of housing, education, and civil rights. Rigorously researched yet highly readable, The Forgotten Palestinians brings a new and much-needed perspective to the Israel-Palestine debate.
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• Prologue : Hostile aliens in their own homeland
• Out of the ashes of the Nakbah
• The open wound: military rule and its lasting impact
• Military rule by other means, 1967-1977
• Between the day of the land and the first intifada, 1976-1987
• After the first intifada: between Palestinian assertiveness and Jewish uncertainty, 1987-1995
• The hopeful years and their demise, 1995-2000
• The 2000 earthquake and its impact
• Epilogue : The oppressive state.

For more than 60 years, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have lived as Israeli citizens within the borders of the nation formed at the end of the 1948 conflict. Occupying a precarious middle ground between the Jewish citizens of Israel and the dispossessed Palestinians of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Palestinians have developed an exceedingly complex relationship with the land they call home; however, in the innumerable discussions of the Israel-Palestine problem, their experiences are often overlooked and forgotten. In this book, historian Ilan Pappe examines how Israeli Palestinians have fared under Jewish rule and what their lives tell us about both Israel's attitude toward minorities and Palestinians' attitudes toward the Jewish state. Drawing upon significant archival and interview material, Pappe analyzes the Israeli state's policy towards its Palestinian citizens, finding discrimination in matters of housing, education, and civil rights. Rigorously researched yet highly readable, The Forgotten Palestinians brings a new and much-needed perspective to the Israel-Palestine debate.
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For more than 60 years, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have lived as Israeli citizens within the borders of the nation formed at the end of the 1948 conflict. Occupying a precarious middle ground between the Jewish citizens of Israel and the dispossessed Palestinians of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Palestinians have developed an exceedingly complex relationship with the land they call home; however, in the innumerable discussions of the Israel-Palestine problem, their experiences are often overlooked and forgotten. In this book, historian Ilan Pappe examines how Israeli Palestinians have fared under Jewish rule and what their lives tell us about both Israel's attitude toward minorities and Palestinians' attitudes toward the Jewish state. Drawing upon significant archival and interview material, Pappe analyzes the Israeli state's policy towards its Palestinian citizens, finding discrimination in matters of housing, education, and civil rights. Rigorously researched yet highly readable, The Forgotten Palestinians brings a new and much-needed perspective to the Israel-Palestine debate.
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• List of illustrations Preface to the first edition Preface to the second edition Preface to the third edition Introduction: whose 'modern times'? 1 The political and economic background 2 The rural history of the Middle East in the twentieth century
• 3 Urban history
• 4 Popular culture: music, dance and arts
• 5 The history of the written word 6 Histories of Middle Eastern women 8 The many faces of Religion in the twenty-first century 9 The new media revolution
• 10 The globalized Middle East in the twenty-first century: three final aspects
• 11 The 'Arab Spring': A Defining Moment for Middle Eastern Scholars Notes Bibliography Picture credits Index.
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This hugely successful, ground-breaking book is the first introductory textbook on the Modern Middle East to foreground the urban, rural, cultural and women's histories of the region over its political and economic history. Ilan Pappe begins his narrative at the end of the First World War with the Ottoman heritage, and concludes at the present day with the political discourse of Islam. Providing full geographical coverage of the region, The Modern Middle East: opens with a carefully argued introduction which outlines the methodology used in the textbook provides a thematic and comparative approach to the region, helping students to see the peoples of the Middle East and the developments that affect their lives as part of a larger world includes insights gained from new historiographical trends and a critical approach to conventional state- and nation-centred historiographies includes case studies, debates, maps, photos, an up-to-date bibliography and a glossarial index. This second edition has been brought right up to date with recent events, and includes a new chapter on the media revolution and the effect of media globalization on the Middle East, and a revised and expanded discussion on modern Iranian history.
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• Preface Introduction
• 1. The Demons of the Nakbah
• 2. The Arming of the Zionist Mind
• 3. The Katz Affair
• 4. The Trial and the Acquittal
• 5. The Battle for the Historiography of 1948
• 6. The Home University
• 7. The Last Straw: Lebanon and Gaza
• 8. The Killing Fields of Gaza Epilogue Appendix Index.
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Ilan Pappe has long been a controversial figure in Israel, here; he gives a full account of his break with mainstream Israeli scholarship and its consequences. Growing up in a conventional Israeli community and influenced by the utopian visions of Theodor Herzl, Pappe was barely aware of the Nakba in his high school years. This intellectual biography traces his journey of discovery, from the whispers of Palestinian classmates, to his realisation that the 'enemy's' narrative of 1948 was correct, and his vow to protect the memory of the Nakba. For the first time he gives the details of the formidable opposition he faced in Israel, including death threats fed by the media, denunciations by the Knesset and calls for him to be sacked from his post at Haifa university. This revealing work, written with dignity and humour, highlights Israel's difficulty in facing up to its past and forging a peaceful, inclusive future in Palestine.
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In this deeply researched political biography, Ilan Pappe traces the rise of the Husayni family of Jerusalem, who dominated Palestinian history from the early 1700s until the second half of the twentieth century. Viewing this sweeping saga through the prism of one family, the book sheds new light on crucial events - the invasion of Palestine by Napoleon, the decline of the Ottoman Empire, World War I, western colonialism, and the advent of Zionism - and provides an unforgettable picture of the Palestinian tragedy in its entirety. "The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian Dynasty" is the history of Palestinian politics before national movements and political parties: at the height of the Husaynis' influence, positions in Jerusalem and Palestine could only be obtained through the family's power base. In telling the story of one family, the book highlights the continuity between periods customarily divided into pre-modern and modern, pre-Zionist and Zionist, illuminating history as it was actually lived.
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• List of Illustrations, Maps and Tables-- Acknowledgements-- Preface1. An 'Alleged' Ethnic Cleansing?--
• 2. The Drive for an Exclusively Jewish State--
• 3. Partition and Destruction: UN Resolution 181 and its Impact--
• 4. Finalising a Master Plan--
• 5. The Blueprint for Ethnic Cleansing: Plan Dalet--
• 6. The Phony War and the Real War over-- Palestine: May 1948--
• 7. The Escalation of the Cleansing Operations: June--September 1948--
• 8. Completing the Job: October 1948--January 1949--
• 9. Occupation and its Ugly Faces--
• 10. The Memoricide of the Nakba--
• 11. Nakba Denial and the 'Peace Process'--
• 12. Fortress IsraelEpilogue-- Endnotes-- Chronology-- Maps and Tables-- Bibliography-- Index.
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Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In our communicative world, few modern catastrophes are concealed from the public eye. And yet, Ilan Pappe unveils, one such crime has been erased from the global public memory: the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in 1948. The pervasive denial of the Nakbah, as Palestinians call the catastrophe that befell them, is still a mystery today. But why is it denied, and by whom? "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" offers an investigation of this mystery, and Pappe puts forward a ground-breaking - if controversial - interpretation of the relationship of Nakbah to the Palestine-Israeli conflict, naming Nakbah as the conflict's very origin. Portraying Israeli-Palestine relations in a revolutionary new light, this book is guaranteed to spark fierce debate throughout the world.
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• List of Illustrations, Maps and Tables-- Acknowledgements-- Preface1. An 'Alleged' Ethnic Cleansing?--
• 2. The Drive for an Exclusively Jewish State--
• 3. Partition and Destruction: UN Resolution 181 and its Impact--
• 4. Finalising a Master Plan--
• 5. The Blueprint for Ethnic Cleansing: Plan Dalet--
• 6. The Phony War and the Real War over-- Palestine: May 1948--
• 7. The Escalation of the Cleansing Operations: June--September 1948--
• 8. Completing the Job: October 1948--January 1949--
• 9. Occupation and its Ugly Faces--
• 10. The Memoricide of the Nakba--
• 11. Nakba Denial and the 'Peace Process'--
• 12. Fortress IsraelEpilogue-- Endnotes-- Chronology-- Maps and Tables-- Bibliography-- Index.
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Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In our communicative world, few modern catastrophes are concealed from the public eye. And yet, Ilan Pappe unveils, one such crime has been erased from the global public memory: the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in 1948. The pervasive denial of the Nakbah, as Palestinians call the catastrophe that befell them, is still a mystery today. But why is it denied, and by whom? "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" offers an investigation of this mystery, and Pappe puts forward a ground-breaking - if controversial - interpretation of the relationship of Nakbah to the Palestine-Israeli conflict, naming Nakbah as the conflict's very origin. Portraying Israeli-Palestine relations in a revolutionary new light, this book is guaranteed to spark fierce debate throughout the world.
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• Chronology-- Foreword-- Acknowledgements-- Introduction: a new look at modern Palestine and Israel--
• 1. Fin de siecle, 1856-1900: social tranquility and political drama--
• 2. Between tyranny and war, 1900-18--
• 3. The mandatory state: colonialism, nationalization and cohabitation--
• 4. The 1948 war between Nakbah and Independence--
• 5. The age of partition, 1948-67--
• 6. Greater Israel and occupied Palestine: the rise and fall of high politics, 1967-87--
• 7. The uprising of 1987 and its consequences--
• 8. A post-Zionist moment of grace?--
• 9. The suicidal track: the death of Oslo and the road to perdition-- Postcript: the Post-Arafat era and the new Sharon age-- Bibliography-- Glossary of names-- Glossary of terms-- Index.
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Ilan Pappe's book traces the history of Palestine from the Ottomans in the nineteenth century, through the British Mandate, the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, and the subsequent wars and conflicts which have dominated this troubled region. The second edition of Pappe's book has been updated to include the dramatic events of the 1990s and the early twenty-first century. These years, which began with a sense of optimism, as the Oslo peace accord was being negotiated, culminated in the second intifada and the increase of militancy on both sides. Pappe explains the reasons for the failure of Oslo and the two-state solution, and reflects upon life thereafter as the Palestinians and Israelis battle it out under the shadow of the wall of separation. As in the first edition, it is the men, women and children of Palestine who are at the centre of Pappe's narrative.
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• Chronology-- Foreword-- Acknowledgements-- Introduction: a new look at modern Palestine and Israel--
• 1. Fin de siecle, 1856-1900: social tranquility and political drama--
• 2. Between tyranny and war, 1900-18--
• 3. The mandatory state: colonialism, nationalization and cohabitation--
• 4. The 1948 war between Nakbah and Independence--
• 5. The age of partition, 1948-67--
• 6. Greater Israel and occupied Palestine: the rise and fall of high politics, 1967-87--
• 7. The uprising of 1987 and its consequences--
• 8. A post-Zionist moment of grace?--
• 9. The suicidal track: the death of Oslo and the road to perdition-- Postcript: the Post-Arafat era and the new Sharon age-- Bibliography-- Glossary of names-- Glossary of terms-- Index.
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Ilan Pappe's book traces the history of Palestine from the Ottomans in the nineteenth century, through the British Mandate, the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, and the subsequent wars and conflicts which have dominated this troubled region. The second edition of Pappe's book has been updated to include the dramatic events of the 1990s and the early twenty-first century. These years, which began with a sense of optimism, as the Oslo peace accord was being negotiated, culminated in the second intifada and the increase of militancy on both sides. Pappe explains the reasons for the failure of Oslo and the two-state solution, and reflects upon life thereafter as the Palestinians and Israelis battle it out under the shadow of the wall of separation. As in the first edition, it is the men, women and children of Palestine who are at the centre of Pappe's narrative.
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• Preface-- Introduction: Whose 'Modern Times'?--
• 1. Political History--
• 2. Economic History--
• 3. The Educational Revolution--
• 4. Rural History--
• 5. Urban History--
• 6. The History of Women--
• 7. The History of the Written Word--
• 8. The Visual History--
• 9. The Story of Culture: Music, dance and poetry-- Conclusion: The end of the century and the political discourse of Islam-- Appendix-- Chronology-- Glossary-- Bibliography.
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This is the first introductory textbook on the modern Middle East to foreground the urban, rural, cultural and women's histories of the region over its political and economic history. Distancing himself from more modernizationist approaches, the author is concerned with the ideological question of whom we investigate in the past rather than how we investigate the past. This is a ground-breaking contribution to a more comprehensive view of the region in a post-September 11th world. Ilan Pappe begins his narrative at the end of the First World War with the Ottoman heritage, and concludes at the end of the twentieth century with the political discourse of Islam. "The" "Modern Middle East": - includes a carefully argued introduction which discusses the methodology used in the textbook - provides a thematic and comparative approach to the region, helping students to see the peoples of the Middle East and the developments that affect their lives as part of a larger world - includes insights gained from new historiographical trends and takes a critical approach to conventional state- and nation-centred historiographies - includes case studies, debates, maps, photos, an up-to-date bibliography and a glossarial index. Accessible and original, "The Modern Middle East" will be essential reading for introductory students on history or politics courses as well as for journalists and those working in the region.
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• Introduction: a new look at modern Palestine and Israel--
• 1. Fin de Siecle, 1856-1900: social tranquility and political drama--
• 2. Between tyranny and war, 1900-1918--
• 3. The mandatory state: colonialism, nationalization and cohabitation--
• 4. The 1948 war between Nakbah and Independence--
• 5. The age of partition, 1948-1967--
• 6. Greater Israel and occupied Palestine: the rise and fall of high politics, 1967-1987-- Conclusion: post-Oslo Palestine and Israel.
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Ilan Pappe writes the story of Palestine, a land inhabited by two peoples. It begins with the Ottomans in the early 1800s and traces a path through the arrival of the early Zionists at the end of that century, through the British mandate at the beginning of the twentieth century, the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, and the subsequent wars and conflicts which culminated in the intifadas of 1987 and 2000. While these events provide the background to the narrative and explain the construction of Zionist and Palestinian nationalism, at centre stage are those who lived through these times, men, women and children, Jews and Arabs. It is a story of coexistence, as well as oppression, occupation, and exile. Ilan Pappe is well-known as a revisionist historian of Israel. Lucid and typically forthright, his account is a unique contribution to the history of this troubled land.
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