Article: Ilan Pappe. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.

Ilan Pappe. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Oxford: One World Publications, 2007. 313 pages. US $27.50.

A SOLE THOUGHT WAS STIRRING THE coarse mind of Israel's founders for the demographic woes facing the establishment of a Jewish state in a terrain predominantly inhabited by the Arabs; a solution compounded by mass expulsion and ethnic cleansing (Massalha 1991; 1997). Contrary to the myth of being the proverbial David of the 1948 events, Zionist forces with their overwhelming power (Morris 1987; 1988; Shlaim. 1999; Talhami. 2003), ethically cleaned almost 800,000 Palestinian Arabs (approximately 80% of the population living in the area controlled by Israel in ...

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