Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian and socialist activist. He is a professor of history at the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies. He is also the author of the bestselling The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oneworld), A History of Modern Palestine (Cambridge), The Modern Middle East (Routledge), The Israel/Palestine Question (Routledge), The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel (Yale), The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge (Verso) and with Noam Chomsky, Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians (Penguin). He writes for, among others, the Guardian and the London Review of Books.

• List of Illustrations, Maps and TablesAcknowledgementsPreface 1. An 'Alleged' Ethnic Cleansing?2. The Drive for an Exclusively Jewish State3. Partition and Destruction: UN Resolution 181 and its Impact4. Finalising a Master Plan5. The Blueprint for Ethnic Cleansing: Plan Dalet6. The Phony War and the Real War over Palestine: May 19487. The Escalation of the Cleansing Operations: June--September 19488. Completing the Job: October 1948--January 19499. Occupation and its Ugly Faces10. The Memoricide of the Nakba11. Nakba Denial and the 'Peace Process'12. Fortress Israel EpilogueEndnotesChronologyMaps and TablesBibliographyIndex

'A major intervention in an argument that will, and must, continue. There's no hope of lasting Middle East peace while the ghosts of 1948 still walk.'