A Very Short History Of The Israel–Palestine Conflict

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Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint.Denied for almost six decades, had it happened today it could only have been called 'ethnic cleansing'. Decisively debunking the myth that the Palestinian population left of their own ...

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La idea de Israel estudia cómo opera el sionismo, más allá de la esfera militar y de la política gubernamental oficial, adentrándose en áreas no explotadas como la educación, los medios de comunicación o el cine, así como en los usos que se hacen del Holocausto en la estructura de soporte ideológico del Estado. ...

Ilan Pappe

Los israelíes conocen como "Guerra de la Independencia" la de 1948. Para los palestinos es la "Nakba", la "catástrofe", puesto que su resultado fue uno de los procesos de limpieza étnica más amplios y dramáticos de nuestro tiempo: cerca de un millón de palestinos fueron obligados a emigrar a punta de fusil, abandonado sus tierras, sus bienes y sus hogares; hubo matanzas de civi...

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Pappe analiza las motivaciones y estrategias de los generales y los políticos, y el proceso de toma de decisiones en sí mismo, que sentó las bases de la ocupación. A partir de un análisis de las infraestructuras legales y burocráticas implementadas para controlar la población de más de un millón de palestinos, de los mecanismos de seguridad que aplicaron vigorosamente ese contr...