Part I. Fallacies of the past. 1. Palestine was an empty land -- 2. The Jews were a people without a land -- 3. Zionism is Judaism -- 4. Zionism is not colonialism -- 5. The Palestinians voluntarily left their homeland in 1948 -- 6. The June 1967 war was a war of "No Choice" -- Part II. Fallacies of the present. 7. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East -- 8. The Oslo mythologies -- 9. The Gaza mythologies -- Part III. Looking ahead. 10. The two-states solution Is the only way forward -- Conclusion: The settler colonial state of Israel in the twenty-first century.
Summary:
"In this groundbreaking book, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel. The ́ten mythś that Pappe exploreśrepeated endlessly in the media, enforced by the military, accepted without question by the world́s governmentśreinforce the regional status quo. He explores the claim that Palestine was an empty land at the time of the Balfour Declaration, as well as the formation of Zionism and its role in the early decades of nation building. He asks whether the Palestinians voluntarily left their homeland in 1948, and whether June 1967 was a war of ́no choice.́ Turning to the myths surrounding the failures of the Camp David Accords and the official reasons for the attacks on Gaza, Pappe explains why the two-state solution is no longer viable."--Publisher's description.
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