- This recently published short book is absolutely brilliant. It’s comprehensive, informative and easily the best book on the current genocide in Palestine I’ve read. It's also very clearly written, which is a blessing.
- Pappe is Professor of History at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies and Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter. He is lauded throughout the world as the 'most original, radical and hard-hitting of Israel's new historians'.
- The back-cover blurb sums it up:
The devastation of 7 October 2023 and the horrors that followed it astounded the world. But the Israel-Palestine conflict didn't start on 7 October. It didn't start in 1967 either, when Israel occupied the West Bank, or in 1948 when the state of Israel was declared. It started in 1882, when the first Zionist settlers arrived in what was then Ottoman Palestine. Ilan Pappe untangles the history of two peoples, now sharing one land. Going back to the founding fathers of Zionism, Pappe expertly takes us through the twists and turns of international policy towards Israel-Palestine, Palestine resistance to occupation, and the changes taking place in Israel itself.
- The Contents summarise the full story:
I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
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