Index: People, E

• Edmund Wilson — American man of letters whose Israel diary in Black, Red, Blond and Olive is Said’s second case of liberal identification with Zionism.
• Edward Said — Palestinian author of The Question of Palestine (1979).
• Efraim Inbar — Professor at Bar-Ilan University and Director of the Begin-Sadat Center, co-author of the 2014 ‘Mowing the Grass’ article on Israel’s strategy of attrition against non-state groups.
• Ehud Barak — Labour prime minister from 1999 who committed to the law barring discussion of return and presented the Camp David plan Arafat refused, in Pappe’s account.
• Ehud Olmert — Prime minister in 2006 whose hitkansut policy Pappe calls the core of Zionism in a different garb: as much land as possible, as few Palestinians as possible.
• Ehud Sprinzak — Israeli political scientist whose concept of illegalism Dowty uses for the expediency toward the law in Israeli political culture.
• Eitan Shamir — Lecturer at Bar-Ilan University and Senior Researcher at the Begin-Sadat Center, co-author of the 2014 ‘Mowing the Grass’ article.
• Eleazar Waldman — Rabbi, head of the Kiryat Arba Yeshiva and Tehiya Knesset member, a Tzvi Yehuda disciple who holds redemption cannot be completed except through war, in Lustick’s account.
• Eli Sharabi — Freed Israeli hostage whose March 20, 2025 UN Security Council testimony on Hamas’s theft of aid is quoted in Debunking the Genocide Allegations.
• Elias Kusa — Haifa attorney for the expelled of al-Khisas and rebutter of the official account of the 1952 ‘Ara shootings, in Manna’s account.
• Eliezer Schweid — Secular ultranationalist ideologue and sophisticated Gush Emunim polemicist in Lustick, who states the movement’s claim to read redemption in history and poses its unanswered questions on democracy and the halacha.
• Elimelech Avnir — Head of the military government whose January 1949 report records 1,038 Galilee villagers expelled in surprise searches, 536 from Majd al-Krum, in Manna’s account.
• Elise Stefanik — Representative whose December 5 House hearing exchange on “From the River to the Sea” Stern analyses as a bait and switch.
• Eliyahu Sasson — Consultancy member whose divide-and-rule approach was overruled as the Consultancy moved to comprehensive ethnic cleansing, in Pappe’s account.
• Eliyakim Haetzni — Kiryat Arba attorney, Yesha Council founding member and vanguardist spokesman in Lustick, who warns of civil war over territorial concession and denies majorities any authority over the Land.
• Emile Habibi — Palestinian writer in Haifa and longtime Knesset member, whose ironic epistolary novel Said sets beside Kanafani’s work.
• Emile Tuma — Al-Ittihad editor and leading League opponent of partition, imprisoned in Lebanon and excluded from leadership until the early 1960s, in Manna’s account.
• Ernest Bevin — British Foreign Minister whose government, in Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, waged a covert and two-faced political war against the Yishuv in 1948 through the Arab League.
• Eyal Kafkafi — Author of A War of Choice (1994), quoted in Peace, Peace’s Appendix 8 for Avraham Dar’s invented Fedayeen ruse.
• Eyal Weizman — Writer on the architecture of occupation cited by Makdisi on the road system.
• Ezra Danin — The man who from 1943 systematised the Village Files with a new level of efficiency and supervised its informant network, and who, Pappe writes, would play a leading role in the ethnic cleansing.
• Ezriel Carlebach — Maariv’s editor, whose “You cannot negotiate with Allah” (1955) is Peace, Peace’s exhibit of the nationalist outlook.