Summary
Scholar whose Expulsion of the Palestinians, in The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, shows how deeply rooted the concept of Transfer was, and is, in Zionist political thought, and who read Pappe’s manuscript before publication.
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Pappe names Masalha among the Palestinian and Israeli scholars — with Walid Khalidi, Gershon Shafir and Baruch Kimmerling — who had dealt successfully with the origins of Zionism as the ideological cause of the ethnic cleansing, and calls his book a good place to begin that recap (The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, PDF p.29-30).
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On Masalha’s showing, from the founder of the Zionist movement, Theodor Herzl, to the main leaders of the Zionist enterprise in Palestine, cleansing the land was a valid option (The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, PDF p.30).
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Uri Davis, Nur Masalha and Charles Smith read the manuscript of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine; Pappe thanks them while noting the final version is his and they share no responsibility for the text (The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, PDF p.12).
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In Manna, Masalha is a colleague who read his manuscript, and, with Ahmad Sa‘di, one of the new generation of researchers from among the Arab Remainers who specialize in the Palestinian Nakba and its effects on the lives of Arabs in Israel during the 1950s (Nakba and Survival, PDF p.22, 39).
Related pages
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Transfer, Ilan Pappe, Zionism