What a shameful distortion of historical and actual facts. Not a single word about the permanent idea of Palestinian Arabs for the destruction of Israel. Complete reversal of reality regarding the 67 war. Pappe is a famous liar, totally excluded from mainstream and serious historians. Not a word about the huge investment done in Gaza to build an underground system - not to protect its citizens but to hide cowards and savages building an opportunity to massacre Israeli civilians.
Hundreds of books say you're completely wrong. Every serious historian agrees with Pappe, and many are Jewish. Not a single thing you wrote above is supported by history. Tareq Baconi
Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance
Jacques Baud
Operation Al-Aqsa Flood: The Defeat of the Vanquisher
Benjamin Beit-Hallami
Original Sins: Reflections on the History of Zionism and Israel
Ronan Bergman
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations
Edwin Black
The Transfer Agreement—Pact between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine
Max Blumenthal
Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel
The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza
Francis A. Boyle
Palestine, Palestinians and International Law
The Palestinian Right of Return Under International Law
Lenni Brenner
51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis
Bradley Burston
The End of Israel: Dispatches from a Path to Catastrophe
Paola Caridi
Hamas: From Resistance to Regime
Ian Carroll
Israel and Palestine: The Complete History
Henry Cattan
The Palestine Question
Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe, Frank Barat
On Palestine
Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe
Gaza in Crisis
Ta-Nahisi Coates
The Message
Alan Dowty
Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine: Two Worlds Collide
Robert Dreyfuss
Devil’s Game: How the the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam
Asaf Elia-Shalev
Israel’s Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth
James M. Ennes Jr.
The Assault on the Liberty
Noura Erakat
Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine
Rosemarie Esber
Under the Cover of War: The Zionist Expulsion of the Palestinians
Marjorie Feld
The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism
Jean-Pierre Filiu
Gaza: A History
Norman Finkelstein
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Method and Madness: The Hidden Story of Israel’s Assaults on Gaza
Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom*
Knowing Too Much
Simha Flapan
The Birth of Israel
David Fromkin
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire
Irene Gendzier
Dying to Forget: Oil, Power, Palestine and the Foundation of US Middle East Policy
Philip H. Gordon
Losing the Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East
Tony Greenstein
Zionism During the Holocaust
Jeroen Gunning
Hamas in Politics: Democracy, Religion, Violence
Jeff Halper
War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification*
Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine
Jeremy Hammond
Obstacle to Peace: The US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Alan Hart
Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews: The False Messiah* 11/24 essential
Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews: David Becomes Goliath* 11/24 essential
Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews: Conflict Without End* 11/24 essential
Amira Hass
Drinking the Sea at Gaza
Seymour Hersh
The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy
Arthur Hertzberg
The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader
Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick
Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
Peter Hounam
Operation Cyanide
Khaled Hroub
Hamas: A Beginner’s Guide
Matthew Hughes
Britain’s Pacification of Palestine: British Army, Colonial State, Arab Revolt
Institute for Palestine Studies
From Haven to Conquest: Readings in Zionism and the Palestine Problem
Noga Kadman and Oren Yiftachel
Erased from Space and Consciousness: Israel and the Depopulated Villages
Matthew Craig Kelly
The Crime of Nationalism: Britain, Palestine and Nation Building
Oren Kessler
Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict
Rashid Khalidi
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine
Brokers of Deceit
Walid Khalidi
All That Remains: Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel
Baruch Kimmerling
Politicide: The Real Legacy of Ariel Sharon
Kovalik, Dan and Galloway, George
The Case for Palestine
Walter Laqueur
A History of Zionism: From the French Revolution to the Establishment of Israel
Gideon Levy
The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe
The Punishment of Gaza
Mario Liverani
Israel’s History and the History of Israel
Antony Loewenstein
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation
Nur Masalha
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History
Expulsion of the Palestinians: Concept of “Transfer” in Zionist Political Thought
The Bible and Zionism: Invented Traditions, Archaeology and Post-Colonialism
The Zionist Bible: Biblical Precedent, Colonialism, and the Erasure of Memory
Palestine Across Millennia: History of Literacy, Learning, Educational Revolutions
John Mearsheimer, Stephen M. Walt
The Israel Lobby and U. S. Foreign Policy
Moshe Menuhin, Mark Crispin Miller
“Not By Might, Nor By Power”: The Zionist Betrayal of Judaism
Hajo G. Meyer
The End of Judaism
David N. Myers
Re-inventing the Jewish Past: European Jewish Intellectuals & the Zionist Return
Peter Oborne
The Fate of Abraham: Why the West Is Wrong About Islam
Michael B. Oren
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Ilan Pappe
Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic
The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge
The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of Gaza and the Occupied Territories
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine* Essential text
A History of Modern Palestine
10 Myths About Israel*
A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Miko Peled
General’s Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine
Nurit Peled-Elhanan
Palestine in Israeli School Books: Ideology and Propaganda in Education
John Quigley
Britain and Its Mandate over Palestine
The Legality of a Jewish State
The Six-Day War and Israeli Self-Defense
The International Diplomacy of Israel’s Founders
The Statehood of Palestine: International Law in the Middle East Conflict
Yakov Rabkin
A Threat From Within: Jewish Opposition to Zionism
Mitri Raheb
Decolonizing Palestine: The Land, the People, the Bible
Faith in the Face of Empire: The Bible through Palestinian Eyes
Adam Raz
Loot: How Israel Stole Palestinian Property
Eugene Rogan
The Damascus Events: 1860 Massacre and the Making of the Modern Middle East
The Arabs: A History
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
Livia Rokach
Israel’s Sacred Terrorism: A Study Based on Moshe Sharett’s Personal Diary
John Rose
The Myths of Zionism
Sara Roy
Unsilencing Gaza: Reflections on Resistance
Karl Sabbagh
Palestine: History of a Lost Nation
Edward Said
The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination
The Question of Palestine
Atef Abu Saif
Don’t Look Left: A Diary of Genocide
Schlomo Sand
The Invention of the Land of Israel
The Invention of the Jewish People
How I Stopped Being a Jew
Rosemary Sayigh
The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries
Ralph Schoenman
The Hidden History of Zionism
James M. Scott
The Attack on the Liberty
Tom Segev
1949: The First Israelis
1967: Israel, the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East
A State At Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion
One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate
The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust
Peter Shambrook
Policy of Deceit: Britain and Palestine, 1914-1939
Ari Shavit
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
Avi Shlaim
The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World
Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab Jew
Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations
Collusion Across the Jordan
War and Peace in the Middle East: A Concise History
The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948
Jamie Stern-Weiner
Deluge: Gaza and Israel from Crisis to Cataclysm
Thomas Suarez
State of Terror
Palestine Hijacked
Gordon Thomas
Gideon’s Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad
Alison Weir
Against Our Better Judgment
Asa Winstanley
Weaponising Anti-Semitism
Ori Yehudai
Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel after World War II
You do realize those books cite thousands of primary sources, including the British Archives, the British War Archives, the Israeli Archives, contemporary Palestine newspapers, the diaries of both Zionists and British Mandate authorities, the archives of the three Zionist terrorist organizations, AND the early prime ministers and other officials of Israel, as well as the testimonies of Palestinians who were there, right?
LOL--yes, hundreds of books by university historians and foreign policy experts, many of whom are Jewish, all of which agree with each other, are just wrong and Diana is right.
It wasn't. In the first place, Balfour didn't write it. He had Zionists write it. But also, many in Parliament were furious about it. It was well known that Britain had promised Palestinians statehood in exchange for fighting against the Ottomans in WW1, and now with Balfour, they had promised two opposing things to two different groups. Everything that now is occurring has proceeded from that one illegal act.
The promise was made by Sir Henry McMahon prior to WW1. It was made to all the Middle East provinces of the Ottoman Empire, including Palestine. You can look this up. It is referred to in the UN pages on the Israel/Palestine issue, and it is referred to in International Law scholar John Quigley's book on The Legality of a Jewish State, and in many other books. This is why the Balfour Declaration caused a stink when it came before Parliament for discussion, because members of Parliament knew Palestine had been promised independence. Britain had essentially made three conflicting promises: the Sykes-Picot Agreement with France, the McMahon letters, and the Balfour Declaration. Give it up, Diana. You know absolutely nothing.
“In an interview, Pappe said, "Indeed the struggle is about ideology, not about facts. Who knows what facts are? We try to convince as many people as we can that our interpretation of the facts is the correct one, and we do it because of ideological reasons, not because we are truthseekers.”
Israel’s Necessity for Strength in the Face of Palestinian Extremism
Ilan Pappé’s The Biggest Prison on Earth paints a distorted picture of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, presenting Israel as an unprovoked oppressor while ignoring the persistent and existential threats it has faced since its inception. This revisionist narrative neglects a critical reality: Israel has always needed to be tough because Palestinian leadership has never been moderate, nor has it ever effectively controlled violent extremism within its ranks.
Palestinian Leadership: A History of Rejectionism and Incitement
From the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini’s alliance with Hitler to Yasser Arafat’s PLO orchestrating decades of terror attacks, Palestinian leadership has never demonstrated moderation or a genuine interest in peace. Every Israeli offer for compromise—including the 1947 UN Partition Plan, the 2000 Camp David Summit, and the 2008 Olmert proposal—has been met with outright rejection or violent uprisings.
Hamas, which seized Gaza in 2007, openly calls for Israel’s destruction in its charter and has turned the territory into a launching pad for rocket attacks against civilians. Even the Palestinian Authority (PA), which governs the West Bank, pays salaries to terrorists and glorifies "martyrs" who murder Israelis. How can Israel negotiate or extend goodwill under these conditions?
Lack of Control Over Extremists
Pappé’s book conveniently ignores the fact that no Palestinian government has ever disarmed terror groups within its jurisdiction. Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad operate freely in Gaza, while the PA in the West Bank has repeatedly failed (or refused) to dismantle terror cells. The October 7th, 2023 massacre—where Hamas slaughtered over 1,200 Israelis, including children—demonstrates why Israel must maintain stringent security measures.
The so-called "prison" analogy collapses under scrutiny: when Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, it left greenhouses and infrastructure that could have helped build an economy. Instead, Gaza became a terror base. Had the Palestinians built a functioning state instead of waging relentless war, restrictions would not have been necessary.
Security Measures Are a Response, Not an Agenda
The book portrays Israeli checkpoints, the security barrier, and military operations as mechanisms of oppression rather than necessary responses to relentless Palestinian terrorism. The security fence, for example, was only built after suicide bombings killed over 1,000 Israelis during the Second Intifada. The blockade on Gaza was imposed after Hamas seized power and intensified rocket attacks. These measures exist because of real threats, not some sinister Israeli plot to control Palestinians indefinitely.
Conclusion
Pappé’s narrative distorts history by ignoring Palestinian intransigence, their leadership’s encouragement of terrorism, and Israel’s repeated peace efforts. Israel has no choice but to be tough because it faces enemies who refuse to recognize its right to exist and who have consistently used violence as a political tool. Until Palestinian leadership renounces terrorism and takes responsibility for controlling extremists, Israeli security policies will remain a necessary defense against existential threats.
Israel is a genocidal entity that needs to be wiped from the face of the earth. The destruction, death, tyranny they inflict is only because of the greed, theft and money control they have on the entire world. May I remind you that only the countries that have their own state banks are targeted as terrorist regimes. That tells you everything you need to know.
In order to control everything, Thought Crimes are passed in countries, anti-semitism charges levied against anyone who questions the fake holocaust which is the cornerstone for their victimhood status. A provable falsehood, easily debunked. When that fake narrative dissolves, Israel will cease to exist. That day can't come soon enough.
They really are the devils aren't they. How dare they let the desert bloom, how dare they not just let all the missiles and rockets land on them. How dare they fight terrorism. How dare they not allow tunnels and terrorism et al. stay below a refugee camp/city getting 'help' from the UN (UNRAW) for decades because of the 'refugee' status. How dare they warn the civilians to get out so that they can defend themselves against the coldblooded lying terrorists. How dare they not take the blame for the Arabs chasing the Arabs into camps those decades ago. How dare they decades ago allowed to be called "Palestinians'. How dare they have had a publication called the Palestinian Post and changed it to Jerusalem Post in 1950. How dared the world call their ww2 brigade the Palestinian brigade. How dare they not say those Arabs flocking to the blooming desert for jobs and better lifestyles as their own trampled on them, how dare they not call them the Palestinian Nation that was forever. How dare President Trump try and give these (who are allowed to lie and their non is not no and their yes is not yes - their religion dictates that) people hope of living in a not refugee camp used by the UN and their terrorist overlords. How dare they ..................
Do you know history dear? The Arabs fought with England to bring down the Ottoman Empire during WW1 and were guaranteed by T.E.Lawrence that success would bring about their independence. Of course, England lied and kept Palestine, a thriving country, safely on the shelf to bring about the Balfour Declaration, giving Palestine to the jews after they created the fake scenario that Hitler gassed 6 million jews, and thus needed their homeland back. I wonder how you would feel if a rogue tribe of people entered your country, stole your land and home, cut your food and water supply and used your children, playing outside, for sniper practice.
The one's who made the desert bloom and this attracted the Arabs for better living opportunities? Are you saying that is why they worked their asses off to be terrorists one day? Nah, that does not jel with the truth.
Isn't Gaza a refugee camp for Arabs who were chased into camps by Arabs? Seeing the UN presence .................. in the form of UNWRA? Only refugee camps qualify for ............ It is quite convenient to build a terrorist network under a city - it is not easy to dismantle in a war with civilian human shields ........... How do you make peace with people who's religion is they may lie ............ their no is not a no and there yah is not a yah? Quite the puzzle to solve ............... (P.S. the Palestinian Post became The Jerusalem Post ......... so perhaps the Palestinians were the Jews ....... not so long ago ............... )
No. No one was "chased into camps by Arabs"--Palestinians were butchered, raped, burned and bombed into fleeing by Zionist terrorist groups and soldiers in 1947 and 1948. That has now been established by numerous Israeli historians as well as others--no doubt about it, since this is clear in every primary source from the time, including the Israeli archives, the British archives, the diaries of British and Israelis, and the testimonies of Palestinians who went through it. Suggest you read Rosemarie Esber's book Under the Cover of War. The only group ever convicted of using human shields is Israel, by their own Supreme Court. No human rights group has ever found Hamas uses human shields. Your analysis of Islam is based on pure ignorance--you've never read the Quran, which has been proved by computer linguistic analysis to be the least violent of the Abrahamic scriptures, including the New Testament. By far the most violent of the three is the Hebrew Scripture, violent enough to be purely repellent. The Palestinian Post was the Palestinian Post because that particular land was called Palestine for 99% of its existence, beginning in 1000 BC. Called Palestine by Ancient Egypt, Herodotus, Aristotle, the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Crusaders and everyone else in the Middle Ages, Shakespeare and everyone else in the Renaissance, the various Muslim empires, including the Ottoman, and then the British. Yes, the Palestinians might be the Jews from VERY long ago, because they have Canaanite DNA, which means they lived in Palestine 3000 years ago and are indigenous to the place. We don't know which one of the various Canaanite tribes they descended from, but it doesn't really matter, because we do know that the Israelites didn't exist until the Iron Age, so they formed their tribe from disparate other groups after the Bronze Age collapse. They are not an ethnicity. Seriously, read a book or ten, and stop listening to hasbara.
How did the imposition of a geopolitical state and the forced removal of indigenous people aid and abet what has happened subsequently? How did Balfour aid and abet this situation?
Arabs chased Arabs into camps, that is Gaza - Hebron too, a camp with refugee status - but go and inspect, you will see a bustling city. The fraud is rampant to get 'aid' for the 'destitute', who flocked there when the Israelis made the desert bloom. The land was desolate when those who said to each other 'next year in Jerusalem' came back to their land. The real history is twisted to have a 'Palestinian nation' that never was. Read Joan Peters' book 'From Time Immemorial".
Yeah don’s idea was just a negotiating tactic. He just wants the locals to solve their own problems so he’s suggesting outlandish things to get them to propose alternatives. Seems to be working…
Btw I’m not a fan but let’s keep watching and see what transpires.
How many acts of assassination and terrorism does it take to realise that Zionism is evil, satanic and brutal.
From JFK, RFK, MLK, USS Liberty, 9/11, Iraq and Afghanistan and Ukraine.
Not to mention the pedophile, child sacrifice/trafficing rings and subsequent murders of Anthony Bourdain, Chester Bennington, Avici and Chris Cornell, amongst others who were ready to expose it all.
Wow, so chasing Arabs into camps by Arabs and then keeping them there for decades as refugees with the UN (and the world through begging) giving aid, hence the presence of UNWRA, using the UN to build a network of terrorism underneath civilians and launching rockets on the Israeli population constantly, not even talking about all the suicide bombings et al. (the victims perpetrating these atrocities are promised paradise and their relatives are paid handsomely), now that sounds just angelical. How dare the Israelis feel threatened? Palestinians were the Jews not so long ago. Yasser Arafat is an Egyptian, likewise the Palestinians are actually Arabs from Egypt and Jordan and these poor Arabs are not welcome back in Jordan nor in Egypt, wonder why?
So all those that said 'next year in Jerusalem' for hundreds of years, arriving in a desolate land the were scattered from, working their asses off to make the dessert bloom, was all so they can be devils threatening you in America.
What a shameful distortion of historical and actual facts. Not a single word about the permanent idea of Palestinian Arabs for the destruction of Israel. Complete reversal of reality regarding the 67 war. Pappe is a famous liar, totally excluded from mainstream and serious historians. Not a word about the huge investment done in Gaza to build an underground system - not to protect its citizens but to hide cowards and savages building an opportunity to massacre Israeli civilians.
Shame on publishing this piece of crap.
Hundreds of books say you're completely wrong. Every serious historian agrees with Pappe, and many are Jewish. Not a single thing you wrote above is supported by history. Tareq Baconi
Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance
Jacques Baud
Operation Al-Aqsa Flood: The Defeat of the Vanquisher
Benjamin Beit-Hallami
Original Sins: Reflections on the History of Zionism and Israel
Ronan Bergman
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations
Edwin Black
The Transfer Agreement—Pact between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine
Max Blumenthal
Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel
The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza
Francis A. Boyle
Palestine, Palestinians and International Law
The Palestinian Right of Return Under International Law
Lenni Brenner
51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis
Bradley Burston
The End of Israel: Dispatches from a Path to Catastrophe
Paola Caridi
Hamas: From Resistance to Regime
Ian Carroll
Israel and Palestine: The Complete History
Henry Cattan
The Palestine Question
Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe, Frank Barat
On Palestine
Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe
Gaza in Crisis
Ta-Nahisi Coates
The Message
Alan Dowty
Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine: Two Worlds Collide
Robert Dreyfuss
Devil’s Game: How the the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam
Asaf Elia-Shalev
Israel’s Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth
James M. Ennes Jr.
The Assault on the Liberty
Noura Erakat
Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine
Rosemarie Esber
Under the Cover of War: The Zionist Expulsion of the Palestinians
Marjorie Feld
The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism
Jean-Pierre Filiu
Gaza: A History
Norman Finkelstein
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Method and Madness: The Hidden Story of Israel’s Assaults on Gaza
Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom*
Knowing Too Much
Simha Flapan
The Birth of Israel
David Fromkin
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire
Irene Gendzier
Dying to Forget: Oil, Power, Palestine and the Foundation of US Middle East Policy
Philip H. Gordon
Losing the Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East
Tony Greenstein
Zionism During the Holocaust
Jeroen Gunning
Hamas in Politics: Democracy, Religion, Violence
Jeff Halper
War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification*
Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine
Jeremy Hammond
Obstacle to Peace: The US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Alan Hart
Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews: The False Messiah* 11/24 essential
Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews: David Becomes Goliath* 11/24 essential
Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews: Conflict Without End* 11/24 essential
Amira Hass
Drinking the Sea at Gaza
Seymour Hersh
The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy
Arthur Hertzberg
The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader
Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick
Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
Peter Hounam
Operation Cyanide
Khaled Hroub
Hamas: A Beginner’s Guide
Matthew Hughes
Britain’s Pacification of Palestine: British Army, Colonial State, Arab Revolt
Institute for Palestine Studies
From Haven to Conquest: Readings in Zionism and the Palestine Problem
Noga Kadman and Oren Yiftachel
Erased from Space and Consciousness: Israel and the Depopulated Villages
Matthew Craig Kelly
The Crime of Nationalism: Britain, Palestine and Nation Building
Oren Kessler
Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict
Rashid Khalidi
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine
Brokers of Deceit
Walid Khalidi
All That Remains: Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel
Baruch Kimmerling
Politicide: The Real Legacy of Ariel Sharon
Kovalik, Dan and Galloway, George
The Case for Palestine
Walter Laqueur
A History of Zionism: From the French Revolution to the Establishment of Israel
Gideon Levy
The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe
The Punishment of Gaza
Mario Liverani
Israel’s History and the History of Israel
Antony Loewenstein
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation
Nur Masalha
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History
Expulsion of the Palestinians: Concept of “Transfer” in Zionist Political Thought
The Bible and Zionism: Invented Traditions, Archaeology and Post-Colonialism
The Zionist Bible: Biblical Precedent, Colonialism, and the Erasure of Memory
Palestine Across Millennia: History of Literacy, Learning, Educational Revolutions
John Mearsheimer, Stephen M. Walt
The Israel Lobby and U. S. Foreign Policy
Moshe Menuhin, Mark Crispin Miller
“Not By Might, Nor By Power”: The Zionist Betrayal of Judaism
Hajo G. Meyer
The End of Judaism
David N. Myers
Re-inventing the Jewish Past: European Jewish Intellectuals & the Zionist Return
Peter Oborne
The Fate of Abraham: Why the West Is Wrong About Islam
Michael B. Oren
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Ilan Pappe
Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic
The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge
The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of Gaza and the Occupied Territories
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine* Essential text
A History of Modern Palestine
10 Myths About Israel*
A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Miko Peled
General’s Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine
Nurit Peled-Elhanan
Palestine in Israeli School Books: Ideology and Propaganda in Education
John Quigley
Britain and Its Mandate over Palestine
The Legality of a Jewish State
The Six-Day War and Israeli Self-Defense
The International Diplomacy of Israel’s Founders
The Statehood of Palestine: International Law in the Middle East Conflict
Yakov Rabkin
A Threat From Within: Jewish Opposition to Zionism
Mitri Raheb
Decolonizing Palestine: The Land, the People, the Bible
Faith in the Face of Empire: The Bible through Palestinian Eyes
Adam Raz
Loot: How Israel Stole Palestinian Property
Eugene Rogan
The Damascus Events: 1860 Massacre and the Making of the Modern Middle East
The Arabs: A History
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
Livia Rokach
Israel’s Sacred Terrorism: A Study Based on Moshe Sharett’s Personal Diary
John Rose
The Myths of Zionism
Sara Roy
Unsilencing Gaza: Reflections on Resistance
Karl Sabbagh
Palestine: History of a Lost Nation
Edward Said
The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination
The Question of Palestine
Atef Abu Saif
Don’t Look Left: A Diary of Genocide
Schlomo Sand
The Invention of the Land of Israel
The Invention of the Jewish People
How I Stopped Being a Jew
Rosemary Sayigh
The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries
Ralph Schoenman
The Hidden History of Zionism
James M. Scott
The Attack on the Liberty
Tom Segev
1949: The First Israelis
1967: Israel, the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East
A State At Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion
One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate
The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust
Peter Shambrook
Policy of Deceit: Britain and Palestine, 1914-1939
Ari Shavit
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
Avi Shlaim
The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World
Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab Jew
Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations
Collusion Across the Jordan
War and Peace in the Middle East: A Concise History
The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948
Jamie Stern-Weiner
Deluge: Gaza and Israel from Crisis to Cataclysm
Thomas Suarez
State of Terror
Palestine Hijacked
Gordon Thomas
Gideon’s Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad
Alison Weir
Against Our Better Judgment
Asa Winstanley
Weaponising Anti-Semitism
Ori Yehudai
Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel after World War II
Oh, Linda! Wow. Thank you. That list will get copied and pasted.
For me, reading Bloodbrothers from Elias Chacour changed me mind entirely.
Yes--a good book, and one likely to convince Christians who have dispensationalist views.
I have my doubts. But it is worthwhile trying next time I meet one.
Linda also reposts stuff like this:
"The October 7 Hamas Assault on Israel
The Most Successful Military Raid of this Century
Scott Ritter"
“Hundreds”
Hundreds of books can be wrong.
You do realize those books cite thousands of primary sources, including the British Archives, the British War Archives, the Israeli Archives, contemporary Palestine newspapers, the diaries of both Zionists and British Mandate authorities, the archives of the three Zionist terrorist organizations, AND the early prime ministers and other officials of Israel, as well as the testimonies of Palestinians who were there, right?
LOL--yes, hundreds of books by university historians and foreign policy experts, many of whom are Jewish, all of which agree with each other, are just wrong and Diana is right.
I didn't say I was right. I said "hundreds of books" can be wrong.
What made the Balfour Declaration lawful? Given what it would mean for the people living under the British "Mandate?"
It wasn't. In the first place, Balfour didn't write it. He had Zionists write it. But also, many in Parliament were furious about it. It was well known that Britain had promised Palestinians statehood in exchange for fighting against the Ottomans in WW1, and now with Balfour, they had promised two opposing things to two different groups. Everything that now is occurring has proceeded from that one illegal act.
"It was well known that Britain had promised Palestinians statehood in exchange for fighting against the Ottomans in WW1."
LOL. No such thing happened.
The promise was made by Sir Henry McMahon prior to WW1. It was made to all the Middle East provinces of the Ottoman Empire, including Palestine. You can look this up. It is referred to in the UN pages on the Israel/Palestine issue, and it is referred to in International Law scholar John Quigley's book on The Legality of a Jewish State, and in many other books. This is why the Balfour Declaration caused a stink when it came before Parliament for discussion, because members of Parliament knew Palestine had been promised independence. Britain had essentially made three conflicting promises: the Sykes-Picot Agreement with France, the McMahon letters, and the Balfour Declaration. Give it up, Diana. You know absolutely nothing.
The Hussein-McMahon Correspondence focused on Arab independence in a general sense and never once mentioned "the Palestinians."
Ibn Saud got his country & consolidated power.
Give it up, Linda. You know less than nothing.
"Give it up, Diana. You know absolutely nothing."
Was that bit of cuntiness absolutely necessary?
As always, you scum resort to contempt and nastiness. For that, I am blocking you.
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Pappe is the token so many antisemites carry.
“In an interview, Pappe said, "Indeed the struggle is about ideology, not about facts. Who knows what facts are? We try to convince as many people as we can that our interpretation of the facts is the correct one, and we do it because of ideological reasons, not because we are truthseekers.”
Israel’s Necessity for Strength in the Face of Palestinian Extremism
Ilan Pappé’s The Biggest Prison on Earth paints a distorted picture of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, presenting Israel as an unprovoked oppressor while ignoring the persistent and existential threats it has faced since its inception. This revisionist narrative neglects a critical reality: Israel has always needed to be tough because Palestinian leadership has never been moderate, nor has it ever effectively controlled violent extremism within its ranks.
Palestinian Leadership: A History of Rejectionism and Incitement
From the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini’s alliance with Hitler to Yasser Arafat’s PLO orchestrating decades of terror attacks, Palestinian leadership has never demonstrated moderation or a genuine interest in peace. Every Israeli offer for compromise—including the 1947 UN Partition Plan, the 2000 Camp David Summit, and the 2008 Olmert proposal—has been met with outright rejection or violent uprisings.
Hamas, which seized Gaza in 2007, openly calls for Israel’s destruction in its charter and has turned the territory into a launching pad for rocket attacks against civilians. Even the Palestinian Authority (PA), which governs the West Bank, pays salaries to terrorists and glorifies "martyrs" who murder Israelis. How can Israel negotiate or extend goodwill under these conditions?
Lack of Control Over Extremists
Pappé’s book conveniently ignores the fact that no Palestinian government has ever disarmed terror groups within its jurisdiction. Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad operate freely in Gaza, while the PA in the West Bank has repeatedly failed (or refused) to dismantle terror cells. The October 7th, 2023 massacre—where Hamas slaughtered over 1,200 Israelis, including children—demonstrates why Israel must maintain stringent security measures.
The so-called "prison" analogy collapses under scrutiny: when Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, it left greenhouses and infrastructure that could have helped build an economy. Instead, Gaza became a terror base. Had the Palestinians built a functioning state instead of waging relentless war, restrictions would not have been necessary.
Security Measures Are a Response, Not an Agenda
The book portrays Israeli checkpoints, the security barrier, and military operations as mechanisms of oppression rather than necessary responses to relentless Palestinian terrorism. The security fence, for example, was only built after suicide bombings killed over 1,000 Israelis during the Second Intifada. The blockade on Gaza was imposed after Hamas seized power and intensified rocket attacks. These measures exist because of real threats, not some sinister Israeli plot to control Palestinians indefinitely.
Conclusion
Pappé’s narrative distorts history by ignoring Palestinian intransigence, their leadership’s encouragement of terrorism, and Israel’s repeated peace efforts. Israel has no choice but to be tough because it faces enemies who refuse to recognize its right to exist and who have consistently used violence as a political tool. Until Palestinian leadership renounces terrorism and takes responsibility for controlling extremists, Israeli security policies will remain a necessary defense against existential threats.
Excellent
You just earned an unsubscribe for your lack of diligence and swallowing propaganda.
This article is like a suicide bomber to your Substack.
Israel is a genocidal entity that needs to be wiped from the face of the earth. The destruction, death, tyranny they inflict is only because of the greed, theft and money control they have on the entire world. May I remind you that only the countries that have their own state banks are targeted as terrorist regimes. That tells you everything you need to know.
In order to control everything, Thought Crimes are passed in countries, anti-semitism charges levied against anyone who questions the fake holocaust which is the cornerstone for their victimhood status. A provable falsehood, easily debunked. When that fake narrative dissolves, Israel will cease to exist. That day can't come soon enough.
They really are the devils aren't they. How dare they let the desert bloom, how dare they not just let all the missiles and rockets land on them. How dare they fight terrorism. How dare they not allow tunnels and terrorism et al. stay below a refugee camp/city getting 'help' from the UN (UNRAW) for decades because of the 'refugee' status. How dare they warn the civilians to get out so that they can defend themselves against the coldblooded lying terrorists. How dare they not take the blame for the Arabs chasing the Arabs into camps those decades ago. How dare they decades ago allowed to be called "Palestinians'. How dare they have had a publication called the Palestinian Post and changed it to Jerusalem Post in 1950. How dared the world call their ww2 brigade the Palestinian brigade. How dare they not say those Arabs flocking to the blooming desert for jobs and better lifestyles as their own trampled on them, how dare they not call them the Palestinian Nation that was forever. How dare President Trump try and give these (who are allowed to lie and their non is not no and their yes is not yes - their religion dictates that) people hope of living in a not refugee camp used by the UN and their terrorist overlords. How dare they ..................
Do you know history dear? The Arabs fought with England to bring down the Ottoman Empire during WW1 and were guaranteed by T.E.Lawrence that success would bring about their independence. Of course, England lied and kept Palestine, a thriving country, safely on the shelf to bring about the Balfour Declaration, giving Palestine to the jews after they created the fake scenario that Hitler gassed 6 million jews, and thus needed their homeland back. I wonder how you would feel if a rogue tribe of people entered your country, stole your land and home, cut your food and water supply and used your children, playing outside, for sniper practice.
I do know my history dear, that is why I know about the lying.
Israel is the terrorist.
The one's who made the desert bloom and this attracted the Arabs for better living opportunities? Are you saying that is why they worked their asses off to be terrorists one day? Nah, that does not jel with the truth.
Tired hasbara tropes.
Thank you, Unbekoming.
Isn't Gaza a refugee camp for Arabs who were chased into camps by Arabs? Seeing the UN presence .................. in the form of UNWRA? Only refugee camps qualify for ............ It is quite convenient to build a terrorist network under a city - it is not easy to dismantle in a war with civilian human shields ........... How do you make peace with people who's religion is they may lie ............ their no is not a no and there yah is not a yah? Quite the puzzle to solve ............... (P.S. the Palestinian Post became The Jerusalem Post ......... so perhaps the Palestinians were the Jews ....... not so long ago ............... )
No. No one was "chased into camps by Arabs"--Palestinians were butchered, raped, burned and bombed into fleeing by Zionist terrorist groups and soldiers in 1947 and 1948. That has now been established by numerous Israeli historians as well as others--no doubt about it, since this is clear in every primary source from the time, including the Israeli archives, the British archives, the diaries of British and Israelis, and the testimonies of Palestinians who went through it. Suggest you read Rosemarie Esber's book Under the Cover of War. The only group ever convicted of using human shields is Israel, by their own Supreme Court. No human rights group has ever found Hamas uses human shields. Your analysis of Islam is based on pure ignorance--you've never read the Quran, which has been proved by computer linguistic analysis to be the least violent of the Abrahamic scriptures, including the New Testament. By far the most violent of the three is the Hebrew Scripture, violent enough to be purely repellent. The Palestinian Post was the Palestinian Post because that particular land was called Palestine for 99% of its existence, beginning in 1000 BC. Called Palestine by Ancient Egypt, Herodotus, Aristotle, the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Crusaders and everyone else in the Middle Ages, Shakespeare and everyone else in the Renaissance, the various Muslim empires, including the Ottoman, and then the British. Yes, the Palestinians might be the Jews from VERY long ago, because they have Canaanite DNA, which means they lived in Palestine 3000 years ago and are indigenous to the place. We don't know which one of the various Canaanite tribes they descended from, but it doesn't really matter, because we do know that the Israelites didn't exist until the Iron Age, so they formed their tribe from disparate other groups after the Bronze Age collapse. They are not an ethnicity. Seriously, read a book or ten, and stop listening to hasbara.
Really? Are you one of those who are allowed to lie ..............
ROFLMAO. Yes, me and every historian. FFS.
How did the imposition of a geopolitical state and the forced removal of indigenous people aid and abet what has happened subsequently? How did Balfour aid and abet this situation?
Arabs chased Arabs into camps, that is Gaza - Hebron too, a camp with refugee status - but go and inspect, you will see a bustling city. The fraud is rampant to get 'aid' for the 'destitute', who flocked there when the Israelis made the desert bloom. The land was desolate when those who said to each other 'next year in Jerusalem' came back to their land. The real history is twisted to have a 'Palestinian nation' that never was. Read Joan Peters' book 'From Time Immemorial".
Anyone care to defend a culture that cheers over the coffins of dead Jewish babies? These people are an evil-infected monstrous death cult.
Yeah don’s idea was just a negotiating tactic. He just wants the locals to solve their own problems so he’s suggesting outlandish things to get them to propose alternatives. Seems to be working…
Btw I’m not a fan but let’s keep watching and see what transpires.
How many acts of assassination and terrorism does it take to realise that Zionism is evil, satanic and brutal.
From JFK, RFK, MLK, USS Liberty, 9/11, Iraq and Afghanistan and Ukraine.
Not to mention the pedophile, child sacrifice/trafficing rings and subsequent murders of Anthony Bourdain, Chester Bennington, Avici and Chris Cornell, amongst others who were ready to expose it all.
https://stopworldcontrol.com/videos/The-Mystery-Of-Israel-Solved.mp4
I’d love to see you write about the state of the state of California right now. This sort of Q&A or doge like inquiry into the corruption here
https://youtube.com/shorts/CI0BiHvwDSI?si=59gx5aPqobZL_Lxn
Disgraceful! All part of the plan to turn it into the Middle East Riviera.
https://youtu.be/qxQNk81ELbI?si=TmgPTuvP0XU9eem-
https://rumble.com/v5smqjz-occupied-world-premiere.html
Pappe is a senior prison officer !!
Wow, so chasing Arabs into camps by Arabs and then keeping them there for decades as refugees with the UN (and the world through begging) giving aid, hence the presence of UNWRA, using the UN to build a network of terrorism underneath civilians and launching rockets on the Israeli population constantly, not even talking about all the suicide bombings et al. (the victims perpetrating these atrocities are promised paradise and their relatives are paid handsomely), now that sounds just angelical. How dare the Israelis feel threatened? Palestinians were the Jews not so long ago. Yasser Arafat is an Egyptian, likewise the Palestinians are actually Arabs from Egypt and Jordan and these poor Arabs are not welcome back in Jordan nor in Egypt, wonder why?
So all those that said 'next year in Jerusalem' for hundreds of years, arriving in a desolate land the were scattered from, working their asses off to make the dessert bloom, was all so they can be devils threatening you in America.