Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

This book was written through the perspective of an Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe. He discusses the tension that was caused between the Arabs and Jews due to the movement of the Zionists. The Zionists held goals that would put the Palestinians in jeopardy and struggling to survive.

Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian. It would be expected for him to create this book in the benefit for the Jews. However, he explains that the Zionists were a negative and dangerous component to the Middle East. For example, in Chapter 2 of the book Pappe explains that the main goal of the Zionists was to create an exclusive state for the Jews. This would include removing all Muslims from their towns, homes, businesses, and communities. After World War I, the Zionists movement increased. On October 31, 1917, the Balfour Declaration was established. This gave the Zionists permission to create a nation homeland for Jews within Palestine. This was the beginning of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Yosef Weitz started to create a census of the towns within Palestine which led many invasions, murders and other strategies to remove the Arabs from their designated homeland. David Ben-Gurion began a series of plans to remove the Arabs from their homes, which included acts of terrorism and murder to remove them. This chapter portrays the Jews as terrorists. They will do what they have to to ensure that they have a homeland whether it is already occupied or not.