A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict

De: Ilan Pappe

Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross

An indispensable guide to understanding the Israel-Palestine conflict, and how we might yet still find a way out of it.

"Ilan Pappe is the most original, radical and hard-hitting of Israel's 'new historians.'" -Avi Shlaim, author of Three Worlds

The devastation of 7 October 2023 and the horrors that followed astounded the world. But the Israel-Palestine conflict didn't start on 7 October. It didn't start in 1967 either, when Israel occupied the West Bank, or in 1948 when the state of Israel was declared. It started in 1882, when the first Zionist settlers arrived in what was then Ottoman Palestine. Ilan Pappe untangles the history of two peoples, now sharing one land. Going back to the founding fathers of Zionism, Pappe expertly takes us through the twists and turns of international policy towards Israel-Palestine, Palestinian resistance to occupation, and the changes taking place in Israel itself.

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very digestible despite the breadth of information

an objective view on an often deliberately obscured history. Author did not suger coat his perspective

A biased and incomplete analysis

There is a history of Islamic aggression, expansionism, and religious and ethnic persecution that antedates the book’s arbitrary starting point. It also ignores the undeniable prior presence of a Jewish national tale and state. A disappointing book.

Warped

Very eloquently written. Significantly warped point of view. Skips and slants gigantic relevant events in creating this narrative. I would reference this book to explain how different definitions for the same thing can create completely opposite emotions. Example for a hijacking of a school bus, guerrilla warfare operation vs terrorist attack