The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Ilan Pappé (2006)
Just a reminder that Israel was built, by design, on ethnic cleansing.
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When Palestinians, who by 1947 were used to their country being passed from one ruler to another, didn't react to the UN partition with lasting mass acts of violence — they had, of course, no idea that the coming Israeli rulers would be the ones to force them from their land — the Zionist leadership were not relieved, but disappointed, as the lackluster Arab response didn't give them the pretext (i.e. the 'opportune moment') they needed for their ethnic cleansing
But, even in the absence of retaliatory pretext, the Zionist leadership still ramped up the violence; in part, by embracing a new tactic of intimidation:
hey is it just me or should we be making a huge fucking deal over tumblr staff deleting a video that debunks IOF propaganda
ALT(and while I'm at it here is the YouTube link to the video also. ive been trying to save/access it in the wayback machine to link that instead for archiving purposes but I'm having difficulties so I'll try and add it later but if anyone else is able to add it sooner it's appreciated)
Many Palestinians are telling us that tonight ( October 23th ) The bombing is the most violent since the start of this genocide!
Even after all of our begging to stop this madness.
Israel cares for no one.
