‘I am an illegal alien on my own land’ The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Morris' earlier work exposed the realities of how 700,000 Palestinians became refugees during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. While the focus of this edition remains the war and exodus, new archival material considers what happened in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Haifa, and how these events led to the collapse of urban Palestine. Revealing battles and atrocities that contributed to the disintegration of rural communities, the story is harrowing.
The refugees now number four million and their cause remains a major obstacle to regional peace. First Edition Hb (1988): 0-521-33028-9 First Edition Pb (1989): 0-521-33889-1 "The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, a book of extraordinary power and integrity written by a young Israeli scholar and journalist, Benny Morris, takes that great tale of flight and conquest and tells it as it has never been told before: with precision and moral economy, with awesome detail and honesty. " The Washington Post Book World. Erasing the Nakba. Israel’s tireless efforts to conceal the historical events leading to its creation. nakba I first heard about the Nakba in the late 1980s, while I was an undergraduate student of philosophy at Hebrew University. This, I believe, is a revealing fact, particularly since, as a teenager, I was a member of Peace Now and was raised in a liberal home.
I grew up in the southern city of Be'er-Sheva, which is just a few kilometres from several unrecognised Bedouin villages that, today, are home to thousands of residents who were displaced in 1948. I now know that the vast majority of the Negev's Bedouin population was not as lucky, and that, in the late 1940s and early 1950s, most Bedouin either fled or were expelled from their ancestral lands to Jordan or Gaza. Despite the Nakba's immediacy, many tactics have been successfully deployed to hide its traces. At around the same time, the first intifada erupted (December 1987). Truth goes both ways This article first appeared in Al Jazeera. The War for Palestine. Dr Eugene L. Rogan - Academic Staff - Faculty of Oriental Studies - University of Oxford. Purchase by Other Means: The Palestine Nakba and Zionism’s Conquest of Economics | Wolfe | settler colonial studies.
Abstract This article questions the singularity of the Palestine Nakba. It highlights some of the historical preconditions that enabled the Nakba to occur, revealing it to have been a consolidation rather than a point of origin. The preconditions that had equipped the Zionists for settlement before they first set foot in Palestine combined economic, technological, military, cultural and moral attributes that were the cumulative outcome of centuries of Eurocolonial history. The article introduces the concept of preaccumulation to characterise this complex historical endowment that settlers imported with them. Ilan Pappe - The ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Palestine, Israel and the Internal Refugees: Essays in Memory of Edward Said. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Professor Ilan Pappé - Arab and Islamic Studies. BA (Hebrew University), PhD (Oxon) Extension: 4095 Telephone: 01392 724095 Professor of History, Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies.
Professor Pappé obtained his BA degree from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1979 and the D. Phil from the University of Oxford in 1984. He founded and directed the Academic Institute for Peace in Givat Haviva, Israel between 1992 to 2000 and was the Chair of the Emil Tuma Institute for Palestine Studies in Haifa between 2000 and 2006. Professor Pappé was a senior lecturer in the department of Middle Eastern History and the Department of Political Science in Haifa University, Israel between 1984 and 2006. He was appointed as chair in the department of History in the Cornwall Campus, 2007-2009 and became a fellow of the IAIS in 2010. His research focuses on the modern Middle East and in particular the history of Israel and Palestine. Professor Pappé is also a member of the middle east humanities research cluster.
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