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Summary of Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappé & Frank Barat's On Palestine
Please This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 The past is ignored in the peace process between Israel and Palestine. The past is everything to the Palestinians, but for the so-called mediators, the past is irrelevant.
#2 Zionism is an ideology that was created by the Jewish people to have their own state. It is an ideology of power that is directed against one particular group of the Palestinians. It is not a replacement for a more progressive ideology, but rather a challenge to create positions that claim the right of people to elementary human and civil rights.
#3 From 1948 onward, Zionism meant the ideology of the state. For many Israelis, it became a state religion. The idea of a Jewish state was changed to include the right to exist, and this was used as a barrier to stop any negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.
#4 Zionism, from its inception, has been a colonialist project. The first wave of settlers who came to Palestine in the 1800s were looking to expand the land they had been given, but were stopped by the native Palestinian population.
Sample Book
#1 The past is ignored in the peace process between Israel and Palestine. The past is everything to the Palestinians, but for the so-called mediators, the past is irrelevant.
#2 Zionism is an ideology that was created by the Jewish people to have their own state. It is an ideology of power that is directed against one particular group of the Palestinians. It is not a replacement for a more progressive ideology, but rather a challenge to create positions that claim the right of people to elementary human and civil rights.
#3 From 1948 onward, Zionism meant the ideology of the state. For many Israelis, it became a state religion. The idea of a Jewish state was changed to include the right to exist, and this was used as a barrier to stop any negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.
#4 Zionism, from its inception, has been a colonialist project. The first wave of settlers who came to Palestine in the 1800s were looking to expand the land they had been given, but were stopped by the native Palestinian population.
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July 22, 2025
A clear and concise history of the brutal Israeli occupation of Palestine, all the more significant because it's written by an Israeli Jew.
Towards the end of his book, Pappe says:
"The Hamas fighters who stormed into Israel on 7 October were largely young people who learned the language of violence from the bombs that Israel dropped on them. This is not a justification of what they did. But we should not be so certain that, had we been subject to the same trauma, with no resolution in sight, we would respond much better."
We need many more people like Ilan Pappe.
FREE PALESTINE
Towards the end of his book, Pappe says:
"The Hamas fighters who stormed into Israel on 7 October were largely young people who learned the language of violence from the bombs that Israel dropped on them. This is not a justification of what they did. But we should not be so certain that, had we been subject to the same trauma, with no resolution in sight, we would respond much better."
We need many more people like Ilan Pappe.
FREE PALESTINE
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