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The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel
A vivid and incisive analysis of the complex relationship between Israel and its Palestinian citizens written by an acclaimed Israeli historian
For decades, 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 Pappé 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, Pappé analyzes the Israeli state’s policy toward 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.
For decades, 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 Pappé 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, Pappé analyzes the Israeli state’s policy toward 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.
344 pages, Paperback
First published May 31, 2011
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Ilan Pappé
89 books1,780 followersIlan Pappé is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the UK, director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies, and political activist. He was formerly a senior lecturer in political science at the University of Haifa (1984–2007) and chair of the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian and Israeli Studies in Haifa (2000–2008).
Pappé is one of Israel's "New Historians" who, since the release of pertinent British and Israeli government documents in the early 1980s, have been rewriting the history of Israel's creation in 1948, and the corresponding expulsion or flight of 700,000 Palestinians in the same year. He has written that the expulsions were not decided on an ad hoc basis, as other historians have argued, but constituted the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, in accordance with Plan Dalet, drawn up in 1947 by Israel's future leaders. He blames the creation of Israel for the lack of peace in the Middle East, arguing that Zionism is more dangerous than Islamic militancy, and has called for an international boycott of Israeli academics.
His work has been both supported and criticized by other historians. Before he left Israel in 2008, he had been condemned in the Knesset, Israel's parliament; a minister of education had called for him to be sacked; his photograph had appeared in a newspaper at the centre of a target; and he had received several death threats.
Pappé is one of Israel's "New Historians" who, since the release of pertinent British and Israeli government documents in the early 1980s, have been rewriting the history of Israel's creation in 1948, and the corresponding expulsion or flight of 700,000 Palestinians in the same year. He has written that the expulsions were not decided on an ad hoc basis, as other historians have argued, but constituted the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, in accordance with Plan Dalet, drawn up in 1947 by Israel's future leaders. He blames the creation of Israel for the lack of peace in the Middle East, arguing that Zionism is more dangerous than Islamic militancy, and has called for an international boycott of Israeli academics.
His work has been both supported and criticized by other historians. Before he left Israel in 2008, he had been condemned in the Knesset, Israel's parliament; a minister of education had called for him to be sacked; his photograph had appeared in a newspaper at the centre of a target; and he had received several death threats.
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May 17, 2024
Zionists were only able to purchase 7% of Palestinian cultivable land during the British Mandate (before the creation of Israel) which then became “one of the reasons the Jewish leadership opted to employ force to take over large parts of Palestine for its future state.” “Out of the one million Palestinians who used to live within what became the state of Israel, 160,000 remained in 1949 (750,000 were ‘expelled and not allowed to return’).” “Only 2.3 per cent of the water resources available in Israel were allocated to the Palestinians in Israel in those years, and the percentage has remained the same in the twenty-first century.” Ilan writes that Zionist leaders ensured “that ‘the democracy’ meant the permanent dispossession of the indigenous population of Palestine.” For all of 1969, Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine’s foremost poet, was kept under house arrest, constantly renewed by the courts – until he had enough and left the country.” The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in November 1995 ended up historically being the end of the less-than-fair Oslo peace process. Even back in 2010, two-thirds of the children in Israel defined as suffering from malnutrition were Palestinian. US Republicans get their panties in a bunch by immigrants crossing our border, yet in Israel, the reverse was true as “the state immigrated into the indigenous community.” “If politicians in the United Kingdom or in the USA spoke about Jewish citizens in the way Jewish politicians have spoken about Palestinians in Israel, they would be forced to resign immediately.” Think of neo-Zionism as fundamentalist Zionism, or a violent and extreme version of Zionism.
Here’s a tasty tidbit from the “Jewish Week” in 1992, expressing the racist Zionist attitude towards a different group in Israel: “Bloodthirsty Bedouin who commit polygamy, have thirty children and continue to expand their illegal settlements, taking over state land…In their culture they take care of their needs outdoors…They don’t even know how to flush a toilet.” Quick, tell me some bloodletting you know that those “bloodthirsty” Bedouin have done? And does anyone honestly think Bedouin have created more “illegal settlements” than Israel has? Ha ha… Not to be outdone in the Freudian projection department, Amos Oz wrote in his novel “Nomads and a Snake”, “I will say the Bedouin shepherd has the shiftiest of faces: one eyed, broken nose, drooling mouth full of long and sharp twisted foxy teeth. One who looks capable for perpetrating any atrocity.” Exactly what kind of atrocity Amos? Genocide? Ethnic cleansing? Intentional targeting of children or starvation of people they are militarily occupying? Ah, who doesn’t want to read the disturbingly racist writings of one Amos the Anus Oz?
Ilan says Israel’s Zionist founders “wanted to build a central European liberal democracy but instead created a hybrid between a settler colonialist state and a secret-service (Mukhabarat) regime imposed on its Palestinian population.” He feels the “Jewish state has given up on the charade of democracy due to navigational fatigue.”
Gideon Levy says (but not in this book) that Israel has three regimes. A: Israeli, B: Israeli/Palestinian 20% of population, 3: The military occupation. Ilan adds that Israel has two kinds of Palestinians: one has no rights and is occupied, and the other are “citizens of the state who have no collective rights – apart from formal democratic rights like voting. Unlike the Jewish majority, they have no right of land ownership, cannot identify with their national movement and cannot build autonomous educational or cultural systems.” Imagine the public outcry in the US if Black Americans, Latinos, or Native Americans were suddenly unable to identify with their national movements and couldn’t build autonomous educational or cultural systems. Yet in Israel you can shamelessly do that (to the MOST empowered Palestinians while putting the rest under decades of brutal military occupation in an open-air prison/concentration camp) and still have balls to call yourself a democracy.
This was a very dry academic book by Ilan, much like his “The Idea of Israel”. Unless you are a completist, you are MUCH better off first reading Ilan’s “The Biggest Prison on Earth” or “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine” or his “Ten Myths About Israel”. It is rare that I only find less than a page of new info on Israel/Palestine from any book I’ve read on that subject. This was the 35th Israel/Palestine book I’ve reviewed on Goodreads of the 80 Israel/Palestine books I have set out to review as protest during Israel’s genocide of 2023/24. If you need a few books on Israel/Palestine to fill you in today fast, I’d recommend first “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine” by Ilan Pappe for the crimes historically committed by Israel against its occupied Palestinians, then “Deluge”, edited by Jamie Stern-Weiner for the best post-October 7th analysis, and finally “Palestine Unlocked” by Thomas Suarez for how Zionists killed far more civilians through terrorism in Palestine (Irgun, Haganah, Lehi, Stern Gang) before the creation of Israel, then Hamas has done since. And you really owe it to yourself to go on YouTube and type in Ilan Pappe and watch a bunch of his videos - Ilan is so charming and wonderfully articulate when talking off-the cuff on camera, unlike those sour & dour defensive Hasbara types like Netanyahu, Amy Schumer, and the ever-humorless Ben Shapiro.
Here’s a tasty tidbit from the “Jewish Week” in 1992, expressing the racist Zionist attitude towards a different group in Israel: “Bloodthirsty Bedouin who commit polygamy, have thirty children and continue to expand their illegal settlements, taking over state land…In their culture they take care of their needs outdoors…They don’t even know how to flush a toilet.” Quick, tell me some bloodletting you know that those “bloodthirsty” Bedouin have done? And does anyone honestly think Bedouin have created more “illegal settlements” than Israel has? Ha ha… Not to be outdone in the Freudian projection department, Amos Oz wrote in his novel “Nomads and a Snake”, “I will say the Bedouin shepherd has the shiftiest of faces: one eyed, broken nose, drooling mouth full of long and sharp twisted foxy teeth. One who looks capable for perpetrating any atrocity.” Exactly what kind of atrocity Amos? Genocide? Ethnic cleansing? Intentional targeting of children or starvation of people they are militarily occupying? Ah, who doesn’t want to read the disturbingly racist writings of one Amos the Anus Oz?
Ilan says Israel’s Zionist founders “wanted to build a central European liberal democracy but instead created a hybrid between a settler colonialist state and a secret-service (Mukhabarat) regime imposed on its Palestinian population.” He feels the “Jewish state has given up on the charade of democracy due to navigational fatigue.”
Gideon Levy says (but not in this book) that Israel has three regimes. A: Israeli, B: Israeli/Palestinian 20% of population, 3: The military occupation. Ilan adds that Israel has two kinds of Palestinians: one has no rights and is occupied, and the other are “citizens of the state who have no collective rights – apart from formal democratic rights like voting. Unlike the Jewish majority, they have no right of land ownership, cannot identify with their national movement and cannot build autonomous educational or cultural systems.” Imagine the public outcry in the US if Black Americans, Latinos, or Native Americans were suddenly unable to identify with their national movements and couldn’t build autonomous educational or cultural systems. Yet in Israel you can shamelessly do that (to the MOST empowered Palestinians while putting the rest under decades of brutal military occupation in an open-air prison/concentration camp) and still have balls to call yourself a democracy.
This was a very dry academic book by Ilan, much like his “The Idea of Israel”. Unless you are a completist, you are MUCH better off first reading Ilan’s “The Biggest Prison on Earth” or “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine” or his “Ten Myths About Israel”. It is rare that I only find less than a page of new info on Israel/Palestine from any book I’ve read on that subject. This was the 35th Israel/Palestine book I’ve reviewed on Goodreads of the 80 Israel/Palestine books I have set out to review as protest during Israel’s genocide of 2023/24. If you need a few books on Israel/Palestine to fill you in today fast, I’d recommend first “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine” by Ilan Pappe for the crimes historically committed by Israel against its occupied Palestinians, then “Deluge”, edited by Jamie Stern-Weiner for the best post-October 7th analysis, and finally “Palestine Unlocked” by Thomas Suarez for how Zionists killed far more civilians through terrorism in Palestine (Irgun, Haganah, Lehi, Stern Gang) before the creation of Israel, then Hamas has done since. And you really owe it to yourself to go on YouTube and type in Ilan Pappe and watch a bunch of his videos - Ilan is so charming and wonderfully articulate when talking off-the cuff on camera, unlike those sour & dour defensive Hasbara types like Netanyahu, Amy Schumer, and the ever-humorless Ben Shapiro.
November 12, 2025
It was dense and not particulary smooth to read. I would not recommend this book for beginners in the field of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In this book, Ilan Pappé does not repeat the necessary informations for beginners. It is rather a nuanced study of the Palestinians living in Israel (not Westbank or Gaza).
The horrors are real. In Israel, there is a two-class society: the Ashkenazi Jews and the others (Arab Israelis, Mizrahi Jews). I am disgusted by the systematic approach. The legalization of permanent dispossession (p.54). Lack of freedom of movement, freedom of the press and opinion (p.64f), random arrests (p.99). You see again that the oppressed study their oppressors (they learn the language, were "connoisseurs of the hegemonic culture", p.92).
Don't forget the Massacre of Kafr Qassem.
The Kafr Qassem massacre occurred on October 29, 1956, when Israeli Border Police killed 49 (including 19 men, 6 women and 23 children) Palestinian citizens of Israel who were returning home, entirely unaware of a newly imposed and lethally enforced curfew that had been announced for that very same evening. This act, where people were massacred for violating a rule they had no chance to know, is just ... I have no words for it.
In Israel, democracy prevails (but only for Jews) (p.327). This drives a wedge into society and must end.
The horrors are real. In Israel, there is a two-class society: the Ashkenazi Jews and the others (Arab Israelis, Mizrahi Jews). I am disgusted by the systematic approach. The legalization of permanent dispossession (p.54). Lack of freedom of movement, freedom of the press and opinion (p.64f), random arrests (p.99). You see again that the oppressed study their oppressors (they learn the language, were "connoisseurs of the hegemonic culture", p.92).
Don't forget the Massacre of Kafr Qassem.
The Kafr Qassem massacre occurred on October 29, 1956, when Israeli Border Police killed 49 (including 19 men, 6 women and 23 children) Palestinian citizens of Israel who were returning home, entirely unaware of a newly imposed and lethally enforced curfew that had been announced for that very same evening. This act, where people were massacred for violating a rule they had no chance to know, is just ... I have no words for it.
In Israel, democracy prevails (but only for Jews) (p.327). This drives a wedge into society and must end.
August 17, 2014
Provides a chronological history of Palestinians living in Israel. It would be interesting to get a response to this book from the Israeli Government. Would they deny the basic gist of the book or accept it on the basis of their right to defend themselves. Just some of the issues detailed in the book; all the symbols of the Israeli state relate to Judaism (the flag and the anthem), Palestinians are prevented from jobs due to employers requesting only those who have served in army ( Palestinians cannot serve in army), Palestinian villages are flattened to make room for other housing (for Jews). Any Palestinians who have Israeli citizenship are second class citizens. What is often most shocking is not the egregious practices of the Government in relation to Palestinians but that the rest of the world lets them get away with it. And the sad fact which the Government and it's backers won't countenance is that as well as being morally repugnant it is never going to bring the peace they claim to want - it just reinforces, perpetuates and propagates continued opposition from the dispossessed.
September 19, 2014
When we think of "Palestinians" we usually think of the Arabs living in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. Most of the Palestinians fled or were expelled by Zionist forces in 1947 and 1948, but a minority remained and a few were added as Israel annexed areas like Wadi Ara. This is the history of the Arab minority in Israel and Pappé tells it well, often with the first-hand insight only an Israeli can give. That said, as helpful as Pappé's account is, I can't help but think that a more detached and more "scholarly" approach might have benefitted the book. The book is extremely well footnoted and the appendix on "Scholarship" is very helpful. While the content of the book is great, Pappé's editor fell down on the job: the book is full of typos and grammatical errors.
June 27, 2025
الكتاب السابع والعشرون من العام 2025
الفلسطينيون المنسيون: تاريخ فلسطيني 1948
The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel 1948
Ilan Pappé, إيلان بابيه
)) تحدث الكاتب والمؤرخ الإسرائيلي ايلان في كتابه عن العمى الذي تتقصده الدولة الإسرائيلية تجاه فلسطينيي الداخل، أو الفلسطينيين الذين ظلوا في قراهم ومدنهم بعد احتلال البلاد عام 1948. وعن السياسة المنهجية في شيطنتهم تارة، والتأليب ضدهم على كافة الأصعدة (التعليم والعمل والفرص والحق في الوجود والتعبير عن النفس) تارة أخرى، الأمر الذي نراه كل يوم ونسمعه من أفواه السياسيين والأكاديميين الإسرائيليين من رفض للوجود "العربي" في الدولة الإسرائيلية.))
ويناقش الكاتب الكثير من الممارسات العنصرية لدى الدولة التي تدعي أنها "الديموقراطية" الوحيدة في الشرق الأوسط، مبيناً طبيعتها الاستخباراتية والعنصرية في الحكم، وذلك بالتضييق المستمر على فلسطينيي الداخل (ناهيكم عما يحدث في الضفة الغربية وقطاع غزة) عبر عدهم مواطنين من الدرجة الثانية في الدولة، وما يترتب عن ذلك في هدر واضح وصريح لدمائهم، وتجاهل العنف القائم بحقهم، والسلب المستمر لأراضيهم وتهجيرهم من قراهم وبيوتهم وخيمهم بالقوة، والتمييز ضدهم سياسياً وعلناً عبر محاولات فلسطينيي 1948 المستمرة في انتزاع وجودهم وحقوقهم وإثبات هويتهم ومكانتهم على الساحة الأكاديمية والأدبية والتعليمية والسياسية، رغم الهجمات المستمرة في حقهم والمبنية على تطرف صهيوني يرفض الآخر العربي بعدِّه دوناً عنه ولا يمكن أن يساويه ربما قلة من الأجيال الجديدة العربية تعرف الموقف الخاطئ الذي اتخذناه، عربًا عمومًا، وفلسطينيين على نحو خاص، عن جهل، من أهلنا الذين بقوا في فلسطين عام 1948 بعد اغتصاب الحركة الصهيونية بلادنا. لقد عانى إخواننا وأهلنا الأمرين، مرة على يد أبناء بلدهم الذين كثيرًا ما ينظر إليهم على أنهم "متعاونون" و"متواطئون" مع المغتصب لأنه سمح لهم بالبقاء في بلادهم بعدما شرد معظم أهل البلاد. وإذا كانت المعاناة الأولى قد تم تجاوزها وإنهاؤها حيث تغيرت، ولله الحمد، المواقف والمفاهيم تجاه أهلنا في الأراضي المحتلة عام 1948، فإن المعاناة الأخرى، على يد "الديمقراطية الوحيدة" في "الشرق الأوسط"، الأكثر قسوة، ما زالت قائمة، بطرق مختلفة، وهذا هو موضوع هذا المؤلَّف.
فصول الكتاب:
قسم المؤلف كتابه، الذي يحوي خريطة للكثافة السكانية الفلسطينية في الأراضي المحتلة عام 1948، بأسلوب تاريخي إلى سبعة فصول يسبقها تمهيد ذو عنوان دال هو "أجانب معادون في وطنهم"، ويليه مقدمة، وينهي العمل بقسمين أولهما خاتمة وضع لها العنوان "الدولة المضطهِدة" أو "الدولة الجائرة" ومن بعده ملحق "ملاحظات على الأعمال الأكاديمية" عن مادة الكتاب في عملية تطورها.
بفصل "القيامة من رماد النكبة"، المقسم بدوره إلى أجزاء (منها: الأرض التي كانت فلسطين 1947، الحلم الصهيوني وحقيقة ثنائية القومية 1949، التوزيع الجغرافي، ردود الفعل اليهودية، النضال من أجل التابعية في "الديمقراطية" الجديدة، المعركة الخاسرة ضد القوانين التمييزية) تتعامل مع تفاصيل الاضطهاد الذي مارسته الحركة الصهيونية، المؤطرة الآن في الدولة اليهودية، تجاه أصحاب الأرض وعملية مصادرة ممتلكاتهم.
التفاصيل المهمة والمثيرة التي يذكرها المؤلف، والتي تعتمد على المصادر الأولية، إضافة إلى شهادات الضحايا والجاني أو المجرم، أكبر من أن تتسع لأي عرض، تمامًا كما أن أي عرض لكتاب من هذا الوزن، من الصعب أن يوفيه حقه، ولذلك نركز على العناوين الرئيسة التي نرى أنها ستساعد القارئ في تقويم الكتاب وهدفه وأهميته. ملخص هذا الفصل، بكلمات المؤلف: خطة النخبة السياسية الإسرائيلية المستقبلية (تجاه الفلسطينيين) ضمت الإعداد لتنفيذ تطهير عرقي إضافي وكذلك التهويد.
الفصل الثاني "الجرح المفتوح: الحكم العسكري وتأثيره المستدام". المؤلف لاحظ بداية أن الحكم العسكري الذي فرضته إسرائيل على الفلسطينيين بعد تقاسمها فلسطين مع نظام "شرق الأردن" وأنظمة عربية أخرى خلال حرب اقتسام فلسطين عام 1948 يستحق مؤلفًا خاصًّا، لكنه مثل "النكبة" ما زال موضوعًا مقموعًا، من قبل الضحايا المرضوضين والمجرمين" الذين يعانون عقدة الذنب الحكم العسكري الذي فرضته إسرائيل على فلسطينيي الداخل استمر تشريعيًّا حتى عام 1966، وكان هدفه محاصرة "الأقلية" وإجبارها على ترك وطنها. ويلاحظ المؤلف أن قوانين الحكم العسكري تشبه قوانين أي دولة دكتاتورية في عصرنا، وأن الأخير ترك آثاره في فلسطينيي إسرائيل بنفس مقدار تأثير النكبة في الشعب الفلسطيني كله.
يستعرض المؤرخ في هذا الفصل مختلف مناحي الحكم العسكري وتأثيراتها في أجزاء منها "التطهير العرقي بأدوات أخرى 1948-1957"، و"إعداد الأساس القانوني"، و"حقائق نظم الطوارئ"، و"التفكير في تطهير عرقي جديد" حيث يشير المؤلف إلى عملية "هحفرفريت/ الخلد" التي وضعها جهاز الاستخبارات الصهيوني (الشاباك) لطرد من بقي من الفلسطينيين في بلادهم في حال اندلاع حرب مع دول عربية، لكنها لم تطبق واستبدلت بها عمليات من طراز آخر مثل مذبحة كفر قاسم في 29/10/1956 التي ارتكبتها القوات الصهيونية في نفس اليوم الذي شنت فيه، بالتواطؤ مع بريطانيا وفرنسا، العدوان الثلاثي على مصر بهدف إسقاط الرئيس الراحل جمال عبد الناصر وإعادة استعمار مصر والسيطرة على قناة السويس، وحيث خططت أيضًا لطرد فلسطينيي قطاع غزة إلى شبه جزيرة سيناء.
الفصل الثالث "حكم عسكري بوسائل أخرى 1967-1977"، وهو مقسم مثل كل الفصول إلى أجزاء صغرى، ويتعامل مع المرحلة التي شهدت -حسب الكاتب- وضع الأسس القانونية للتبعية من الدرجة الثانية حيث منح الوزراء صلاحيات استثنائية للتعامل مع "فلسطينيي الداخل" من ناحية التحكم المطلق في التنقل والإقامة وابتياع الأراضي ومصادرتها وما إلى ذلك من ممارسات استعمارية وعنصرية. وفي حقيقة الأمر فإن المؤلف كثيرًا ما يعقد مقارنة بين سياسة الدولة الصهيونية تجاه الفلسطينيين وسياسات نظام جنوب أفريقيا العنصري البائد، بل ويستعمل المفردات نفسها مثل الفصل العنصري وما إلى ذلك
في الفصل الرابع تعامل مع ردود الفعل الفلسطينية وتطور أساليب نضال الفلسطينيين، ومن ذلك على سبيل المثال "يوم الأرض" وهو موضوع الفصل الرابع "بين يوم الأرض والانتفاضة الأولى، 1976-1987"، وهي الفترة الزمنية التي بدأ فيها حكم حزب الليكود وانتهاء حكم حزب العمل وتأثير ذلك في المجتمع الصهيوني والمجتمع العربي وكذلك اقتصاد الدولة السياسي وغير ذلك من الجوانب.
الفصل الخامس "بعد الانتفاضة الأولى: بين الجزم الفلسطيني والشك اليهودي، 1987-1995" خصصه الكاتب للحديث في تطور المجتمع الفلسطيني في "الداخل" وتطور موقعه السياسي والثقافي، إضافة إلى تقويم النشاط السياسي الفلسطيني القومي وصعود الإسلام السياسي داخل "الخط الأخضر"!
الفصل السادس "سنوات الأمل وزواله، 1995-2000". يتابع المؤلف في هذا الفصل التحرك الفلسطيني وراء ما يسمى "الخط الأخضر" وظهور حركات سياسية جديدة ذكر في مقدمتها د عزمي بشارة والتجمع الذي أسسه هناك حيث تبنى الخط القومي، وهي المرة الأولى التي يتم فيها خلق تيار قومي عربي داخل "إسرائيل". كما استعرض المؤلف الحركات والتجمعات الأخرى ومنها مؤسسة "عدالة" وحركات الإسلام السياسي وغيرهما.
المؤلف خصص الفصل الأخير "زلزال عام 2000 وتأثيره" والمقصود هنا الانتفاضة الثانية والأحداث الدموية التي انتشرت في أكتوبر/ تشرين الأول من العام في الأراضي الفلسطينية المحتلة عام 1948 دعمًا للانتفاضة الثانية، ويخصص حيزًا من الفصل للحديث عن تأثير د عزمي بشارة في الحركة السياسية الفلسطينية وراء "الخط الأخضر" ولنضالاته من أجل "دولة لكافة مواطنيها"، وصعود دوره في خلق وعي قومي عربي بين فلسطينيي "إسرائيل" وخطر ذلك على الدولة اليهودية مما جعلها تعمل على إزاحته من الميدان عبر اختلاق التهم ضده مما أجبره في نهاية المطاف على مغادرة البلاد.
أنهى المؤلف كتابه بخاتمة "الدولة الجائرة" الذي خصصه لتوضيح طبيعة إسرائيل كدولة اضطهاد وتمييز عنصري، وكثيرًا ما لجأ إلى المقارنة بينها وبين جنوب أفريقيا العنصرية. بل إنه يذهب إلى حد مقارنتها بالدول التي تحكمها المخابرات، ويذكر منها دولاً عربية حيث وضع ذلك تحت عنوان "أنموذج رديف: دولة المخابرات في العالم العربي".
بهذا فإنه يرفض رفضًا قاطعًا وصف دولة إسرائيل بأنها ديمقراطية. أما تصوره للمستقبل فإنه يخص بالذكر دور حنين الزعبي في قيادة تغيير في داخل إسرائيل بما يجعل إمكانية بقائها دولة يهودية صرفًا وسط عالم عربي مهيمن مسألة تخضع للمسائل.
الخلاصة
المؤلف كتب ملخص كتابه في التمهيد حيث ذكر أن المستعمرين اليهود الأوائل الذين استقبلهم الفلسطينيون ضيوفًا، تعاملوا مع مضيفيهم أهل البلاد بطريقة معاكسة حيث عدوهم غرباء في "بلاد اليهود"، مع أن تيودور هيرتزل المفترض أنه أبو الصهيونية، كان يعرف أن الأرض مأهولة بأهلها.
الدراسات الإسرائيلية عن "فلسطينيي إسرائيل" قليلة واقتصرت على نخبة أرادت إثبات الأحكام المسبقة. الدولة "الديمقراطية الوحيدة" في المنطقة تنظر إلى "مواطنيها" الفلسطينيين على أنهم أعداء، وتحذر منهم على نحو دائم، وتمنعهم من ابتياع الأراضي حيث لم يزد مقدار امتلاك الفلسطينيين الأراضي في عام 2010 عن 2.5% وهو المقدار نفسه بعد اغتصاب فلسطين.
January 25, 2022
This is the third book that I'm reading from this author. Not surprised that this one was also a very good read to know more about the history of the Palestinians and Israel. However, I liked the ethnic cleansing of Palestine better. I thought the writing was much more interesting than this book. But I'm happy that I read both because it feels some gaps and maybe the information in both books are definitely needed for getting a better understanding of the situation now and before.
So far Pappe is one of my favourite authors and 'm glad that he recently published a book. That will be my next reading maybe after one or two other ones!
So far Pappe is one of my favourite authors and 'm glad that he recently published a book. That will be my next reading maybe after one or two other ones!
April 1, 2013
A meticulous account of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the years immediately following the establishment of Israel in 1948. Pappé is a meticulous historian who made use of recently released archival material (such as notes and journals of some of the main actors and leaders of the time) to determine the exact nature of the policy towards Palestinians and Palestinian villages post 1948, and also to catalogue forced removals, destruction of villages, massacres and rapes as noted in these sources. It turns out these archival sources corroborate many of the actions and events Palestinians have claimed for decades.
His style is not hysterical or hostile; he maintains a historian's tone for most of the book. There are occasional glimpses of he feeling and reactions as he discovers the truth behind the propaganda and myths he has been fed growing up in Israel and passing through the education system.
There are interesting quotes at the beginning of chapters mostly taken from statements, descriptions and international reactions to what went on in Bosnia - these stand in stark contrast to the west's and UN's statements and reactions to the events that occured in Palestine. They also serve to back up his conclusion that the Palestinians were subjected to ethnic cleansing, given the similarities between the two conflicts.
A very important book because of who he is and his profession as a historian. A difficult read, but not brutal - there are very few graphic details. It's just the endless repetitive nature of the actions against the Palestinian villages over a period of years.
His style is not hysterical or hostile; he maintains a historian's tone for most of the book. There are occasional glimpses of he feeling and reactions as he discovers the truth behind the propaganda and myths he has been fed growing up in Israel and passing through the education system.
There are interesting quotes at the beginning of chapters mostly taken from statements, descriptions and international reactions to what went on in Bosnia - these stand in stark contrast to the west's and UN's statements and reactions to the events that occured in Palestine. They also serve to back up his conclusion that the Palestinians were subjected to ethnic cleansing, given the similarities between the two conflicts.
A very important book because of who he is and his profession as a historian. A difficult read, but not brutal - there are very few graphic details. It's just the endless repetitive nature of the actions against the Palestinian villages over a period of years.
June 22, 2021
Very well researched and chronologically put together this book is centered around the Israeli-Arabs, who somehow were able to avoid expulsion and despite enormous pressures continued to live in their own lands, and documents the experiences of these Palestinian citizens living as an oppressed minority under the Israeli rule.
Beginning after the Nakbah, the imposition of military rule, leading to the Intifada and going on to the events that transpired in October 2000 that led to the second Intifada this book is an expert historian’s account.
The writing is extremely academic and scholarly and as such may not appeal much to the average reader however, if you can get past the writing this book is a goldmine of information on the injustices perpetrated upon the Palestinians throughout the history.
The book has detailed footnotes as well a comprehensive appendix adding to its appeal but also, quite a few grammatical errors that should have been weeded out by the editor.
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Beginning after the Nakbah, the imposition of military rule, leading to the Intifada and going on to the events that transpired in October 2000 that led to the second Intifada this book is an expert historian’s account.
The writing is extremely academic and scholarly and as such may not appeal much to the average reader however, if you can get past the writing this book is a goldmine of information on the injustices perpetrated upon the Palestinians throughout the history.
The book has detailed footnotes as well a comprehensive appendix adding to its appeal but also, quite a few grammatical errors that should have been weeded out by the editor.
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June 5, 2021
Thoroughly researched, detailed and depressing
May 6, 2023
الفلسطينيون المنسيون: تاريخ فلسطينيي 1948 – إيلان بابه
يتحدث بابه في كتابه عن العمى الذي تتقصده الدولة الإسرائيلية تجاه فلسطينيي الداخل، أو الفلسطينيين الذين ظلوا في قراهم ومدنهم بعد احتلال البلاد عام 1948، وعن السياسة المُمنهجة في شيطنتهم تارة، والتأليب ضدهم على كافة الأصعدة (التعليم والعمل والفرص والحق في الوجود والتعبير عن النفس) تارة أخرى، الأمر الذي نراه كل يوم ونسمعه من أفواه السياسيين والأكاديميين الإسرائيليين من رفض للوجود "العربي" في الدولة الإسرائيلية.
ويناقش الكاتب الكثير من الممارسات العنصرية لدى الدولة التي تدعي أنها "الديموقراطية" الوحيدة في الشرق الأوسط، مبيناً طبيعتها الاستخباراتية والعنصرية في الحكم، وذلك بالتضييق المستمر على فلسطينيي الداخل (ناهيكم عما يحدث في الضفة الغربية وقطاع غزة) عبر عدهم مواطنين من الدرجة الثانية في الدولة، وما يترتب عن ذلك في هدر واضح وصريح لدمائهم، وتجاهل العنف القائم بحقهم، والسلب المستمر لأراضيهم وتهجيرهم من قراهم وبيوتهم وخيمهم بالقوة، والتمييز ضدهم سياسياً وعلناً.
ويتناول الكاتب محاولات فلسطينيي 1948 المستمرة في انتزاع وجودهم وحقوقهم وإثبات هويتهم ومكانتهم على الساحة الأكاديمية والأدبية والتعليمية والسياسية، رغم الهجمات المستمرة في حقهم والمبنية على تطرف صهيوني يرفض الآخر العربي بعدِّه دوناً عنه ولا يمكن أن يساويه.
يُعد بابه أحد المفكرين والكتّاب الأكثر أهمية في عصرنا، وهذا أحد كتبه الذي يتناول شقاً من الصراع الفلسطيني الإسرائيلي الممتد إلى اليوم.
يتحدث بابه في كتابه عن العمى الذي تتقصده الدولة الإسرائيلية تجاه فلسطينيي الداخل، أو الفلسطينيين الذين ظلوا في قراهم ومدنهم بعد احتلال البلاد عام 1948، وعن السياسة المُمنهجة في شيطنتهم تارة، والتأليب ضدهم على كافة الأصعدة (التعليم والعمل والفرص والحق في الوجود والتعبير عن النفس) تارة أخرى، الأمر الذي نراه كل يوم ونسمعه من أفواه السياسيين والأكاديميين الإسرائيليين من رفض للوجود "العربي" في الدولة الإسرائيلية.
ويناقش الكاتب الكثير من الممارسات العنصرية لدى الدولة التي تدعي أنها "الديموقراطية" الوحيدة في الشرق الأوسط، مبيناً طبيعتها الاستخباراتية والعنصرية في الحكم، وذلك بالتضييق المستمر على فلسطينيي الداخل (ناهيكم عما يحدث في الضفة الغربية وقطاع غزة) عبر عدهم مواطنين من الدرجة الثانية في الدولة، وما يترتب عن ذلك في هدر واضح وصريح لدمائهم، وتجاهل العنف القائم بحقهم، والسلب المستمر لأراضيهم وتهجيرهم من قراهم وبيوتهم وخيمهم بالقوة، والتمييز ضدهم سياسياً وعلناً.
ويتناول الكاتب محاولات فلسطينيي 1948 المستمرة في انتزاع وجودهم وحقوقهم وإثبات هويتهم ومكانتهم على الساحة الأكاديمية والأدبية والتعليمية والسياسية، رغم الهجمات المستمرة في حقهم والمبنية على تطرف صهيوني يرفض الآخر العربي بعدِّه دوناً عنه ولا يمكن أن يساويه.
يُعد بابه أحد المفكرين والكتّاب الأكثر أهمية في عصرنا، وهذا أحد كتبه الذي يتناول شقاً من الصراع الفلسطيني الإسرائيلي الممتد إلى اليوم.
November 27, 2023
Dense but well done. It is hard to read this and realise that there are people still living under a horrific apartheid. It furthers my understanding of this and provides important context for the war that has been waged in 2023.
January 19, 2024
𝘌𝘭 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘰 𝘯𝘰 𝘥𝘦𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘥𝘰. 𝘕𝘰 𝘦𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘳 𝘭𝘢 𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘢. 𝘓𝘢 𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘢 𝘦𝘴 𝘶𝘯 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢 𝘭𝘢 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘥. 𝘊𝘶𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘰 𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢 𝘢𝘭𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘻𝘢 𝘭𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘰́𝘯 𝘥𝘦 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘰, 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘰 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘦𝘥𝘦 𝘦𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘢, 𝘴𝘶 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘰́𝘯 𝘯𝘰𝘴 𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘢 𝘢𝘶𝘯 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘰 𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘷𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘢́ 𝘥𝘦𝘭 𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰r
June 11, 2025
This book covered a new perspective, one that I’ve never read about and that I’ve learned a lot. Quite challenging to read at times, because of the academic language, but still an excellent book. I can’t wait to read his other works
August 25, 2023
It definitely covered a lot of things that I was not aware of and has changed my perspective on the topic of Palestinians living in Israel. I need to reread to get all the details in my head!
December 12, 2024
Brilliant book
May 10, 2025
La información es redudante
June 18, 2019
A well written book on Israeli-Palestinian issues. Unlike other books which focus on Palestinians under the Occupied Territories, the writer chooses to focus on Palestinians living in Israel, or to be more accurate Arab-Israelis.
Provides an in-depth analysis on how the Arab Israelis have fared and assimilated in Israeli society, and also underlines the challenges they face.
Some chapters might be too general if you often read books about the conflict, but the writer adds his views and perspectives to negate this.
Provides an in-depth analysis on how the Arab Israelis have fared and assimilated in Israeli society, and also underlines the challenges they face.
Some chapters might be too general if you often read books about the conflict, but the writer adds his views and perspectives to negate this.
January 5, 2014
I first became aware of Ilan Pappé after reading Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians which combined some of his articles with those of Noam Chomsky.
What I read was quite a game changer and view altering affair. If you had told me before I read it that I would be so moved and adrenalised by an Israeli, especially on a subject as close to my heart as Palestine, I would have struggled to believe you at all.
It was pretty much the positive effect his contributions to that book that persuaded me to pick up this book, hoping for more of the same.
I had previously read the eye-opening The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide about a reformed Zionist's trip from the swish suburbs of Tel Aviv to life living with a Palestinian hammula less than twenty miles away physically but a thousand politically. Therefore I, probably naively, went into this book expecting a little bit of the same but Pappé goes for more of an academic scholarly look at the lives of the people whose views are often unrepresented in coverage of the conflict, namely the Palestinian citizens living in Israel itself.
I'll be honest, it didn't quite move me as much as either his other essays I'd read - though that could be down to the fact those other essays were either condensed down or just shorter and more to the point. A lot of the text, especially towards the end of the book, can tend to go over your head as it insists on looking at matters from a rigidly apersonal position with lots of wordy academic language. It still makes pretty important reading for those with an interest in Israel/Palestine, whichever side of the fence you place yourself.
Personally though, if you are interested in a intriguing, altogether more human look at the lives of Palestinians within the territory that became Israel, along with the oppression they face, I would recommend you read Susan Nathan's book first. If you're interested in Ilan Pappé's views on Israel's actions, head for the Gaza In Crisis team-up with Noam Chomsky first.
What I read was quite a game changer and view altering affair. If you had told me before I read it that I would be so moved and adrenalised by an Israeli, especially on a subject as close to my heart as Palestine, I would have struggled to believe you at all.
It was pretty much the positive effect his contributions to that book that persuaded me to pick up this book, hoping for more of the same.
I had previously read the eye-opening The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide about a reformed Zionist's trip from the swish suburbs of Tel Aviv to life living with a Palestinian hammula less than twenty miles away physically but a thousand politically. Therefore I, probably naively, went into this book expecting a little bit of the same but Pappé goes for more of an academic scholarly look at the lives of the people whose views are often unrepresented in coverage of the conflict, namely the Palestinian citizens living in Israel itself.
I'll be honest, it didn't quite move me as much as either his other essays I'd read - though that could be down to the fact those other essays were either condensed down or just shorter and more to the point. A lot of the text, especially towards the end of the book, can tend to go over your head as it insists on looking at matters from a rigidly apersonal position with lots of wordy academic language. It still makes pretty important reading for those with an interest in Israel/Palestine, whichever side of the fence you place yourself.
Personally though, if you are interested in a intriguing, altogether more human look at the lives of Palestinians within the territory that became Israel, along with the oppression they face, I would recommend you read Susan Nathan's book first. If you're interested in Ilan Pappé's views on Israel's actions, head for the Gaza In Crisis team-up with Noam Chomsky first.
November 11, 2015
كتاب دسم للغاية، يجب أن تكون مطلع علي الصراع الفلسطيني الإسرائيلي و ملم به جغرافيا، تاريخيا و قانونيا لكي تنسجم في قراءة الكتاب لذلك لا أنصح به كبداية.
لكنه فعلا عميق و شامل و فيه حقائق عدة لن تجدها في أي مكان أخر.و الجميل في الموضوع إن الكاتب إسرائيلي أي لا يوجد تحيز عربي للقضية الفلسطينية مجرد إنحياز إنساني للحق.
لكنه فعلا عميق و شامل و فيه حقائق عدة لن تجدها في أي مكان أخر.و الجميل في الموضوع إن الكاتب إسرائيلي أي لا يوجد تحيز عربي للقضية الفلسطينية مجرد إنحياز إنساني للحق.
January 19, 2012
Ilan Pappe did a great job giving voice to a people who are silenced by the military boot of Israel. Grounded and supported by statistical evidence not even the Israeli can deny, Pappe's work is a must read for all concerned about the Palestinian issue
October 26, 2011
Over 100 pages in now. The biased language is frustrating, but once you get through some of the early tragedy, the history becomes more useful and stands on its own better.
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