11-13-2014 Ilan Pappe offers a reminder that the ‘ongoing Nakba’ implicates many of us in Israel’s history Liz Rose Mondoweiss

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lan Pappe's October 25 lecture in Chicago, "The Ongoing Nakba," promoting his new book, The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge, emphasized two things that stood out to me in particular: Israel's importing of European pine trees and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. [1]  Though these issues are not new to the discourse on Palestine, Pappe reminds his audience that the land is as alive as the indigenous people who inhabited it.  The mind, body, and spirit of both land and people are still victims to Israel's current goal of de-Arabizing Palestine, "which has gotten worse for the Palestinians every year since 1882."...

 

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