Thursday, May 28, 2009
Things we know, things we may not ...
(Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, P154)
"As in other places in Palestine, it is worthwhile to dwell a little on the local history of the village as it demonstrates how not only houses or fields were destroyed in the Nakba but a whole community disappeared, with all its intricate social networks and cultural achievements. Thus in Mujaydil the Israeli army obliterated a piece of history that included some fine architectural specimens and a series of significant social developments. Just twenty years before the Nakba, the proud villagers decided to transform, actually modernise, the old traditional system that placed the mukhtar at the head of the village community. Already in 1925 they had elected a local council, whose first project was to provide lighting along the village's roads. Apart from its religious buildings and modern infrastructure it had a relatively large number of schools. In addition to the two schools associated with churches, there was also a state school, the Banin School, known for the magnificent trees that provided shade for the pupils during their breaks, for the well situated in the middle of the school yard and for the fruit trees that surrounded it. The village's main source of collective wealth, which supported all these impressive constructions, was a mill, built in the eighteenth century that served the villages in the vicinity, including the people of the 'veteran Jewish settlement of Nahalal. Moshe Dayan, who came from Nahalal, mentions his father's reliance on this mill." (Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, P154)
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In some of the youtube Nakba pieces there are some photos that show those advances spoken about (not necessarily specifically). Here is one that you can pick out some of the modernizing shots from -
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EAmtgfPz-k
I have more posted on my site
This is a great video. I'll certainly post it tomorrow. I especially liked this comment a guy made on it:
ReplyDelete"The Israelis have learnt one or two things from the Nazis:
1) The fundamental importance of "Lebensraum" and the acquisition of it at any cost.
2) For each Israeli killed one hundred palestinians are killed; no matter if they are babies or women.
3) Propaganda must constantly bombard people through media with the most unbelievable lies. The more you lie, the more the lie becomes truth."
Very true!
This is a great video, v! I'll certainly post it tomorrow. I especially liked this comment a guy made on it:
ReplyDelete"The Israelis have learnt one or two things from the Nazis:
1) The fundamental importance of "Lebensraum" and the acquisition of it at any cost.
2) For each Israeli killed one hundred palestinians are killed; no matter if they are babies or women.
3) Propaganda must constantly bombard people through media with the most unbelievable lies. The more you lie, the more the lie becomes truth."
Very true!
This is a great video, v! I'll certainly post it tomorrow. I especially liked this comment a guy made:
ReplyDelete"The Israelis have learnt one or two things from the Nazis:
1) The fundamental importance of "Lebensraum" and the acquisition of it at any cost.
2) For each Israeli killed one hundred palestinians are killed; no matter if they are babies or women.
3) Propaganda must constantly bombard people through media with the most unbelievable lies. The more you lie, the more the lie becomes truth."
Very true!
Ilan Pappe is good, very good actually. No wonder Zionists hate him so much.
ReplyDeletePALESTINE PRE-NAKBA ,1948 AND BEFORE
ReplyDeletehttp://notinhisname.blogdrive.com/archive/cm-01_cy-2007_m-01_d-07_y-2007_o-0.html
You have to scroll a little down the page
http://ilanpappe.com/?page_id=7
ReplyDeleteThe Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In our communicative world few modern catastrophes are concealed from the public eye. And yet, Ilan Pappe unveils, one such crime has been erased from the global public memory: the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in 1948. The pervasive denial of the Nakbah, as Palestinians call the catastrophe that befell them, is still a mystery today. But why is it denied, and by whom?
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine offers an investigation of this mystery, and Pappe puts forward a ground-breaking – if controversial – interpretation of the relationship of Nakbah to the Palestine-Israeli conflict, naming Nakbah as the conflict’s very origin. Portraying Israeli-Palestine relations in a revolutionary new light, this book is guaranteed to spark fierce debate throughout the world.
<h1>Ilan Pappé’s Latest Book Exposes Zionist Ethnic Cleansing as Premeditated</h1>
ReplyDeleteIt was clear to the leadership, notably David Ben-Gurion, that the Zionist project could only be realized through the creation in Palestine of a purely Jewish state, without the inconvenience of Palestinians to muck things up. That was the objective, and the means to achieve this objective continued to develop as the years went on. What is troubling about Pappé’s revelations is that so much of the planning by the Zionists to take over all of Palestine by force was done without any real public disclosure either by the press or by historians.
In December of 1947, Ben-Gurion made a speech to senior members of his party—the Mapai—in which he noted that the U.N. partition resolution, 181, that was so disastrous for the Palestinians, left “40 percent non-Jews in the areas allocated to the Jewish state…Such a demographic balance questions our ability to maintain Jewish sovereignty…Only a state with at least 80 percent Jews is a viable and stable state.”
It should be noted here that Resolution 181 was passed by the U.N. General Assembly, thus making it a non-binding resolution, unlike Security Council resolutions. But that mattered little, as the Zionist movement seized on its passage and has ever since argued that the U.N. created Israel. To the misfortune of the Palestinians, the dozens of non-binding General Assembly resolutions passed since that time requiring Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories have been ignored by Israel and by its chief sponsor, the United States.
http://www.wrmea.com/archives/May-June_2007/0705023.html
Ilan Pappé’s Latest Book Exposes Zionist Ethnic Cleansing as Premeditated
ReplyDeleteIt was clear to the leadership, notably David Ben-Gurion, that the Zionist project could only be realized through the creation in Palestine of a purely Jewish state, without the inconvenience of Palestinians to muck things up. That was the objective, and the means to achieve this objective continued to develop as the years went on. What is troubling about Pappé’s revelations is that so much of the planning by the Zionists to take over all of Palestine by force was done without any real public disclosure either by the press or by historians.
In December of 1947, Ben-Gurion made a speech to senior members of his party—the Mapai—in which he noted that the U.N. partition resolution, 181, that was so disastrous for the Palestinians, left “40 percent non-Jews in the areas allocated to the Jewish state…Such a demographic balance questions our ability to maintain Jewish sovereignty…Only a state with at least 80 percent Jews is a viable and stable state.”
It should be noted here that Resolution 181 was passed by the U.N. General Assembly, thus making it a non-binding resolution, unlike Security Council resolutions. But that mattered little, as the Zionist movement seized on its passage and has ever since argued that the U.N. created Israel. To the misfortune of the Palestinians, the dozens of non-binding General Assembly resolutions passed since that time requiring Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories have been ignored by Israel and by its chief sponsor, the United States.
http://www.wrmea.com/archives/May-June_2007/0705023.html
Arabs chose war.
ReplyDeleteArabs fled.
Arabs chose naqba instead of a state.
Oh well. That was their choice. :-D