tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15627892.post2480447917707464447..comments2024-03-18T05:56:59.924-04:00Comments on Daled Amos: Barry Rubin: Letter To An Honest, Fair-Minded JournalistDaled Amoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17646808702899584547noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15627892.post-47829031078462973182011-01-25T05:42:13.884-05:002011-01-25T05:42:13.884-05:00You got to be joking.
Barry Rubin trying to look ...You got to be joking. <br />Barry Rubin trying to look honest and fair minded is like saying Israel is a western style democracy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15627892.post-30426913570972467532011-01-24T15:58:54.507-05:002011-01-24T15:58:54.507-05:00What a joke.
Karsh already debunked Pappe 10 years...What a joke.<br />Karsh already debunked Pappe 10 years ago in his book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fabricating-Israeli-History-Historians-Politics/dp/071468063X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1295902173&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">Fabricating Israeli History</a><br /><br />The book itelf is debunked <a href="http://www.meforum.org/1886/the-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestine" rel="nofollow">here</a> for example.<br /><br />You'll notice that unlike you, the reviewer knows what he is talking about and is not reduced to ad hominen attacks--he refers to the facts to refute Pappe.<br /><br />Maybe you should try that next time.<br /><br />Then you won't be so easily ignored.Daled Amoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17646808702899584547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15627892.post-84798854220855779922011-01-24T15:45:12.463-05:002011-01-24T15:45:12.463-05:00One really has to laugh at a zionist propagandist ...One really has to laugh at a zionist propagandist like Barry Rubin trying to label other as liars. In fact, his "letter" is full of lies. Lies that have been exposed by honest Israelis using Israeli government documents (see below). As such we can only conclude that Mr. Rubin is NOT a journalist, but rather a paid propagandist. He should be ignored.<br /><br /><br />The ethnic cleansing of Palestine<br />By Ilan Pappe<br />University of Haifa<br /><br />Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, "The ethnic cleansing of Palestine" is about? What is it trying to communicate?<br /><br />The book tries to show that in 1948, the Zionist movement waged a war against the Palestinain people in order to implement its long term plans of ethnic cleansing (whereas Israeli historians, including 'new historians', claimed that the war was waged by the Arab world against the state of Israel in order to eliminate it and it resulted in expulsions of Palestinians). The Arab world tried to prevent this cleansing, but was too fragmented, self-centered and ineffective to stop the uprooting of half of Palestine's native population, the destruction of half of its villages and towns and the killing of thousands of its people.<br /><br />And since that ethnic cleansing was successfully implemented in almost 80% of Palestine without any global or regional repercussions - the ethnic cleansing policy continues ever since 1967 in the remaining 20% of the country. Creating a Jewish state in historical Palestine cleansed of Palestinians is still the ideolgoical infrastructure on which the state of Israel is based. How to achieve this goal is a divisive issue between Left Zionists - hoping to negotiate a settlement that would leave a small number of Palestinains in a greater Israel and the Right Zionsts willing to implement a more direct cleasning policy from the same area even today.<br /><br />The book uses the accepted scholarly definition of Ethnic Cleansing to show its academic as well legal applicability to the case of Palestine and argues that since in the eyes of the world - including the State Department and the UN - ethnic cleansing is a crime against humanity, this how we should view the Israeli actions in the past and ISrael's policies in the present.....<br /><br />http://www.zcommunications.org/the-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestine-by-ilan-pappe-1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com