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Ilan Pappé

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

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Essay Topics

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What case does Pappé make for the imperative for Israel to acknowledge the Nakba? What are the strengths and weaknesses of his argument?

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Compare and contrast the “official” Israeli historical narrative of 1948 with the Palestinian narrative of the Nakba. What does Pappé’s book add to these accounts?

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How does Pappé characterize Zionist ideology? What role does the historical persecution of the Jews (such as the Holocaust) play in Zionism and its motivations?