Allie Wilson’s Reviews > The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine > Status Update

After 2003 law passed that would punish interracial marriage with deportation, appeals failed.

“[This] revealed once again how [Israel] prefers to uphold Zionism rather than justice. Israelis enjoy telling Palestinians how they should be happy to live in the ‘only democracy’ in the region and have a right to vote, but no one is under any illusion that this voting comes with any actual political influence.”

“In 2006, Israel’s boarder police seized Jaljulya. The troops burst into homes at 2am and dragged thirty-six women out into the street, deporting them immediately. Many were pregnant and had children…The soldiers were demonstrating to the Israeli public that when the presence of the Palestinian [reproductive] population [presents a] ‘demographic danger’, the Jewish state will act…without mercy.”

Back to Pappe - it’s taking me so long because it’s obviously a very upsetting read. I’m past the Nakba and onto cultural genocide -

On the renaming of villages and religious sites in the memoricide of the Nakba: Pappe shows that the naming was often historically inaccurate - but this didn’t matter, as “of course, the motive for Hebraizing the names of evicted villages was ideological, not scholarly.”

“Drazen Petrovic [posits] a close connection between politicians and the army in the perpetration of [ethnic cleansing] and comments on the place of massacres within it. The political leadership delegates the implementation of the ethnic cleansing to the military level without necessarily furnishing any systematic plans or providing explicit instructions, but with no doubt as to the overall objective.”

Ben Gurion succeeded in exploiting the myth of potential destruction or a "second Holocaust" awaiting the future Jewish State… Israel was able to secure massive support for the state in Jewish communities around the world, while demonising the Arabs as a whole and the Palestinians in particular, in the eyes of the general public in the USA. The reality on the ground was of course the complete opposite.

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