The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel

It should be mandatory reading for all politicians and all politically-historically interested people. Throught the course of recent events concerning this region no-one seems to ask "Why? What happened before this?" "What led to this reaction?" Invariably, the 'what came before' is left unexamined in the dimness of the past. Forgotten. This book brings the chain of past events back into the light of consciousness. Irrespective of ones conviction it is vitally important to be aware of the fact.

Hard to read, but necessary reading for Jew, Gentile, Arab. We all live in this world. Such a sad commentary on how we can't get along, Eleanor Takahashi-Inskip [email protected]

A very interesting look at the life of a people few ever think about.

This book includes interesting information, but Pappe who is for the first time publishing with Yale University Press needed the kind of editor he had with Pluto Press. The book is organized chronologically which may not have been the best framework. That said, the book is also informative and up to date.

All negative reviews of this book seem to be represented by people who are not interested in the truth and are only interested in personaly attacking and discrediting the author, without ANY basis to their claims,in order to prevent the truth about Israel'e apartheid regime from being unveiled let alone debated. I recomend this book and his other one called "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine". Munther Fahmi, a Jerusalem Bookseller who reads what he sells.

Ilan Pappe has once again proven that he is one of the best historians on the Palestinian plight which has been disregarded and distorted by the embedded Western media and their mendacious mob. I highly recommend this insightful book along with his other wonderful work, "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine." Your reward will be knowing that you are on the right side of history.

Forgotten Palestinians Are Jews Ilan Pappe (an advocate for the native speakers of the Arabic tongue) presented his new book Forgotten Palestinians in Sydney on some early spring day in September 2012. The radio waves of the Boston College made their way through the heat wave at 8 am on July 21, 2013 and delivered his speech studded with such terms as the «settler colonial state», «not full citizens», «twenty percent of Palestine», etc. He also dwelled a lot on «democracy», on the Nazareth demography and on the placing--jokingly--the sons of Israel on Malta or in Italy instead of the outskirts of the snowy mountain of Hermon... He stated that not a single Arab village was built after 1948 while the Jewish settlements were constructed in hundreds. Hm! Is it really so? How about the Arabic speaking village of Aqbara near Safed? It was founded in the Galilee Mountains of Israel after 1948 and, recently, it was adorned by the golden dome of its new mosque. There are other Arabic speaking communities which were enlarged (see the band of Arab towns to the north of the new Jewish city of Karmiel.) They are situated in my neck of Palestinian stone fields but one can notice the new Arab localities in other parts of the country like Judea, Gaza and Gilead. However, one must realize that the density of human population in the Jewish territories in Palestine on average is three times higher than in the Arab controlled areas of Palestine. Our crafty author laments that the Arab villages cannot expand overlooking the fact that this very density of population is so high in Galilee, Judea and Samaria--not a single stone has been unturned in the last 60 years. Close to 7 million try to eke the living on the 15,000 square kilometers in Galilee, Judea, Samaria and the Mediterranean coast. (As for the destroyed villages and towns inhabited by Arabs and Jews it did happen as a result of the 20th century civil war in Palestine and the delayed reconciliation between Jews and Arabs «aided» by the gung ho soldiers from Syria and Egypt invading Palestine. The author should be aware of this but he pretends not to know.) We also must pay attention that Mr. Pappe's Palestine is an exclusively Arabic speaking cluster of communities. No Palestinian Jews exist for our hack writer. They are denied their lineage to Canaan, Jerusalem and Palestine. How come a Jew with a German last name--his father did not Hebraize his last name and it is telling--has deprived his Ashkenazi brethren of their homeland in Palestine? Out of spite of the national liberation movement of Zionism, he, probably, decided to become a servant of the Dubai-like sheiks--they pay well and--Ilan figured out--his security as a left-wing intellectual is guaranteed by benevolent Americans, North Europeans and Israelis. Mr. Pappe subscribes to the lemma that the modern Israel is not a democracy and the ensuing theorem that a democratic Israel won't be a Jewish state. Since «democracy» is the Anglo-Germanic way of community organizing, Mr. Pappe wins some points for himself with many Anglo-Saxons, Franks and Scandinavians. He also supports the British ruse to subdivide their Mandate in Palestine and to bring foreigners from Hijaz to its eastern part which they called Moab according to the Jewish Bible. To please his Norman masters, Ilan Pappe stresses that the Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank are asking just for the 20% of Palestine. He prefers to confuse his admirers and critics who know well that the West Bank is not a 20% of Palestine but just a mere 8% which its Arabic-speaking citizens want to reunite with the Eastern Palestine while keeping--for a while-- the Jewish groupings in the 15% of the entire British Mandate which historically encompasses the 120,000 square kilometers of deserts, hills, mountains and fertile plains... Five million Palestinian Jews are still trying to appease and pacify the cutting edges of Arabic speaking populace (~12 million strong) who want to be a title nation in all Pappe's Palestines including Israel. Face To Face With My Face Thin lips, unclean shave, hanage (hair in nostrils, Japanese), drooping wrinkles, deep set eyes, contorted eyebrows, a weak chin, even a wart... (All of it is mounted on a ghetto-contorted and stunted body.) It is not pretty. If I see such a face I would rather avoid such a person. Well, this is my countenance; it stares at me from the dusty mirror. My face is a mirror of my soul. I force some smile on my face. In Hebrew, the word "face" looks like a plural word--"paneem"--but it is used like a singular word, think the word "news" in English. We're wearing many faces, we're displaying many expressions, we use masks...Perhaps, and the word "face" was formed from the Hebrew "pan." It means "to doubt, to hesitate." I rise and go outside, into the Palestinian sunshine. summer retreat / arrives a new group / "Honoring Silence" The slope of Upper Galilee where Crusaders and--later-- Mamelukes threw their small refuse is strewn now with the mighty Anglo debris. Local Jews joke that mountains here grow by trash dumped on the hillsides along the carved terraces. I collect bags and bags of glass and plastic bottles there and bring them to the recycling crate which is towering above the magnificent landscape of the bluish mountain ridges beneath the precipice. first anemones: / their fallen out pistils / read in Chinese first anemones: / their fallen out pistils / read in Chinese

Finlay a book that tells the truth about how Israel treated and still treats its own Palestinian citizens. A must read book!

Insightful work about a much misrepresented topic. An emotive read

Illan Pappé confirms himself as an rigorous historian. Every paragraph, every sentence is properly documented. The point of view of the palestinian people in Israele is necessary not only to understand the suffering of that people but also the nature of the apartheid state formed by Israele.

The Palestinians remaining inside what is internationally recognised as Israel have been made outsiders in their own homeland. This is a welcome explanation of how the state of Israel has accomplished this and the impact on the lives of the indigenous population.

The Forgotten Palestinians is too long caught up in details. The reader gets lost in the various political movements and organizations. If the author included more stories about what happened in the lives of the people, he would have kept the story line more interesting. A very tedious read.