Ten Myths About Israel

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Ilan Pappe

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An urgent, updated reissue of the essential book on the myths—and reality—behind the state of Israel

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2024 Preface: Decontextualizing and Dehistoricizing Gaza
Preface

PART I. FALLACIES OF THE PAST

1. Palestine Was an Empty Land
2. The Jews Were a People Without a Land
3. Zionism Is Judaism
4. Zionism Is Not Colonialism
5. The Palestinians Voluntarily Left Their Homeland in 1948
6. The June 1967 War Was a War of "No Choice"

PART II. FALLACIES OF THE PRESENT

7. Israel Is the Only Democracy in the Middle East
8. The Oslo Mythologies
9. The Gaza Mythologies

PART III. LOOKING AHEAD

10. The Two-State Solution Is the Only Way Forward

Conclusion: The Settler Colonial State of Israel in the Twenty-First Century

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