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“The next significant decree, No. 59, proclaimed the same year, stipulated that any land owned by the Jordanian government (160,000 dunams in total) was now to be transferred to the State of Israel. State pillaging within the context of this decree was based on an 1855 Ottoman law whereby any uncultivated and non-private land would become state land.”
― Ilan Pappé, The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories

“What matters is not whether the present Jews in Israel are the authentic descendants of those who lived in the Roman era, but rather the state of Israel’s insistence that it represents all the Jews in the world and that everything it does is for their sake and on their behalf.”
― Ilan Pappé, Ten Myths About Israel

“In a longer process that continued through the 1950s and early 1960s, the Zionist lobby succeeded in sidelining the State Department’s experts on the Arab world and left American Middle Eastern policy in the hands of Capitol Hill and the White House, where the Zionists wielded considerable influence.”
― Ilan Pappé, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

“Whether from the sky or on the ground, no one could fail to spot the hordes of men, women and children streaming north every day. Ragged women and children were conspicuously dominant in these human convoys: the young men were gone â€� executed, arrested or missing. By this time, UN observers from above and Jewish eyewitnesses on the ground must have become desensitised towards the plight of the people passing by in front of them: how else to explain the silent acquiescence in the face of the massive deportation unfolding before their eyes?”
― Ilan Pappé, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

“Palestine is not entirely Jewish demographically, and although Israel controls all of it politically by various means, the state of Israel is still colonizing—building new colonies in the Galilee, the Negev, and the West Bank for the sake of increasing the number of Jews there—dispossessing Palestinians, and denying the right of the natives to their homeland.”
― Ilan Pappé, Ten Myths About Israel

“Imagine that not so long ago, in any given country you are familiar with, half of the entire population had been forcibly expelled within a year, half of its villages and towns wiped out, leaving behind only rubble and stones. Imagine now the possibility that somehow this act will never make it into the history books and that all diplomatic efforts to solve the conflict that erupted in that country will totally sideline, if not ignore, this catastrophic event.”
― Ilan Pappé, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

“The reality of the current colonization of vast parts of the West Bank by Israel renders any two-states solution an improbable vision...The two-states solution, as noted earlier, is an Israeli invention that was meant to square a circle...The two-states solution, indirectly one should say, is based on the assumption that Israel and Judaism are the same. Thus, Israel insists that what it does, it does in the name of Judaism and when its actions are rejected by people around the world the criticism is not only directed toward Israel but also toward Judaism.”
― Ilan Pappé, Ten Myths About Israel

“Ben-Gurion himself, writing to his son in 1937, appeared convinced that this was the only course of action open to Zionism: ‘The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war.â€� The opportune moment came in 1948. Ben-Gurion is in many ways the founder of the State of Israel and was its first prime minister. He also masterminded the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.”
― Ilan Pappé, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

“The general definition of what ethnic cleansing consists of applies almost verbatim to the case of Palestine.”
― Ilan Pappé, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

“Isrrael participated in that conference [the Lausanne meeting of April 1949] only because it was a precondition for its acceptance as a full member of the UN, who also demanded that Israel sign a protocol, called the May Protocol, committing itself to the terms of Resolution 194, which included an unconditional call for the Palestinian refugees to return to their homes or to be given compensation. A day after it was signed in May 1949, Israel was admitted to the UN and immediately retracted its commitment to the protocol.”
― Ilan Pappé, Ten Myths About Israel

“The Jewish settlers are now an organic and integral part of the land. They cannot, and will not, be removed. They should be part of the future, but not on the basis of the constant oppression and dispossession of the local Palestinians.”
― Ilan Pappé, Ten Myths About Israel

“All of this took place before a single regular Arab soldier had entered Palestine,”
― Ilan Pappé, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

“The final reason offered for the Zionist reclamation of the Holy Land, as determined by the Bible, was the need of Jews around the world to find a safe haven, especially after the Holocaust. However, even if this was true, it might have been possible to find a solution that was not restricted to the biblical map and that did not dispossess the Palestinians.”
― Ilan Pappé, Ten Myths About Israel

“Hassan Abd al-Sayidi Abu Labada, twenty-nine years old and married with two children, also a resident of Khan Yunis, was woken up by soldiers at two in the morning with a blow in the face from a soldier’s rifle, followed by more blows. His brother Mannar, twenty-three years old, was taken out of his bed and thrown onto the family car, parked in the yard. The soldiers asked about the whereabouts of Jamal Abu Samhadana,23 a man he did not know. He was punched in the face and then forced into the routine emptying of cupboards. The soldiers cut up the sofa with a knife. And in his own words:
They found a kitchen knife in the kitchen. ‘What is it?â€� ‘It is a bread knife,â€� I answered. The soldiers punched me on the nose with the knife. I was wounded and bled. The soldier took a sack of rice and demanded that I empty it on the floor. I said it was only rice, so he emptied it himself and then took an oil can and poured it on the cloths and the rice.”
― Ilan Pappé, The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories

“Again, the inevitable question presents itself: three years after the Holocaust, what went through the minds of those Jews who watched these wretched people pass by?”
― Ilan Pappé, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

“All'inizio del mandato britannico, gli ebrei costituivano circa l'11 per cento della popolazione. Ma era stata loro promessa la Palestina come patria futura, dalla Società delle Nazioni e dalla Costituzione per la Palestina redatta dagli inglesi. Negli anni del mandato, il governo britannico cercò di ottenere il consenso dei palestinesi alla perdita del proprio paese offrendo "soluzioni" come la partizione, la federazione e la formazione di uno Stato binazionale. Non propose di rispettare il principio mandatario secondo cui la maggioranza della popolazione di un paese ha il diritto di decidere del proprio futuro, com'era avvenuto in tutti gli Stati arabi vicini.”
― Ilan Pappé, A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict

“Imagine if in the UK or the United States, Jewish citizens, or Catholics for that matter, were barred by law from living in certain villages, neighborhoods, or maybe whole towns? How can such a situation be reconciled with the notion of democracy?”
― Ilan Pappé, Ten Myths About Israel

“Once the decision was taken, it took six months to complete the mission. When it was over, more than half of Palestine’s native population, close to 800,000 people, had been uprooted, 531 villages had been destroyed, and eleven urban neighbourhoods emptied of their inhabitants.”
― Ilan Pappé, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

“Palestine was always the land between the river and the sea. It still is. Its changing fortunes are characterized not by geography but by demography. The settler movement that arrived there in the late nineteenth century now accounts for half the population and controls the other half through a matrix of racist ideology and apartheid policies.”
― Ilan Pappé, Ten Myths About Israel

“Previously this had been the domain of Yosef Weitz, who was very active in the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Now it was handed to his son, Raanan Weitz, a man as active as his father in realizing the dream of turning Palestinian areas into purely Jewish ones.”
― Ilan Pappé, The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories

“Aun en los momentos más caóticos y violentos de este nuevo proceso histórico, la opinión mundial no ha absuelto a Israel de haber oprimido continuamente a los palestinos. El mundo ve al país cada vez más como un estado colonialista que sobrevivió el siglo XX pero que se mantiene únicamente porque es útil a los Estados Unidos y porque cumple una función efectiva en la economía capitalista mundial. Ya no hay ninguna dimensión moral que atraiga al apoyo global y cuando el aspecto más funcional de ese apoyo comience a debilitarse, los pronósticos compartidos, para bien o para mal, tanto por los postsionistas como por los neosionistas –de un estado paria que siga manteniendo un régimen de aparheidâ€� pueden hacerse realidad.”
― Ilan Pappé, The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge

“Before 1967, Israel definitely could not have been depicted as a democracy. As we have seen in previous chapters, the state subjected one-fifth of its citizenship to military rule based on draconian British Mandatory emergency regulations that denied the Palestinians any basic human or civil rights.”
― Ilan Pappé, Ten Myths About Israel

“The translation of these European notions of racial superiority into the Israeli context became evident as soon as the interviewer asked him about the government’s plans for the remaining Palestinian leaders. Interviewer and interviewee giggled as they agreed that the policy should involve the assassination or expulsion of the entire current leadership, that is all the members of the Palestinian Authority—about 40,000 people.”
― Ilan Pappé, Ten Myths About Israel

“The official decision to colonize was a grave violation of international law. The Geneva Convention requires an occupying power to affect the existing order in the occupied territory as little as possible during its tenure. One aspect of this obligation is that it must leave the territory to the people it finds there. Another vital obligation, decreed in Article 49 of the Geneva Convention, states: ‘The occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.â€�8”
― Ilan Pappé, The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of Gaza and the Occupied Territories

“Today more than 90 percent of land is owned by the Jewish National Fund (JNF). Landowners are not allowed to engage in transactions with non-Jewish citizens and public land is prioritized for the use of national projects, which means that new Jewish settlements are being built while there are hardly any new Palestinian settlements. Thus, the biggest Palestinian city, Nazareth, despite the tripling of its population since 1948, has not expanded one square kilometer, whereas the development town built above it, Upper Nazareth, has tripled in size, on land expropriated from Palestinian landowners.”
― Ilan Pappé, Ten Myths About Israel

“They took us out one after the other; shot an old man and when one of his daughters cried, she was shot too. Then they called my brother Muhammad, and shot him in front us, and when my mother yelled, bending over him â€� carrying my little sister Hudra in her hands, still breastfeeding her â€� they shot her too.”
― Ilan Pappé, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

“It was clear to the government that denying citizenship on the one hand, and not allowing independence on the other, condemned the inhabitants of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to life without basic civil and human rights...The demographic fear that haunted Ben-Gurion -- a greater Israel with no Jewish majority -- was cynically resolved by incarcerating the population of the occupied territories in a non-citizenship prison.”
― Ilan Pappé, Ten Myths About Israel

“Refuting mythologies that sustain injustice should be of benefit to everyone living in the country or wishing to live there.”
― Ilan Pappé, Ten Myths About Israel

“In Palestine, Christians who engaged with nationalism found eager allies among the Muslim elite, leading to a mushrooming of Muslim-Christian societies all over Palestine toward the end of World War I. In the Arab world, Jews joined these kind of alliances between activists from different religions. The same would have happened in Palestine had not Zionism demanded total loyalty from the veteran Jewish community there.”
― Ilan Pappé, Ten Myths About Israel

“Their research shows that, over the centuries, Palestine, rather than being a desert, was a thriving Arab society—mostly Muslim, predominantly rural, but with vibrant urban centers.”
― Ilan Pappé, Ten Myths About Israel