The Biggest Prison On Earth-Ilan Pappe

Picking up the story where his 2007 bestseller, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, left off, Israeli historian and professor Ilan Pappe uses recently declassified archival material to analyze the motivations and strategies of the generals and politicians--and the decision-making process itself--that laid the foundation of the occupation. From a survey of the legal and bureaucratic infrastructures that were put in place to control the population of over one million Palestinians, to the security mechanisms that vigorously enforced that control, Pappe paints a picture of what is to all intents and purposes the world's largest 'open prison'.

Publisher:  ONEWorld Publications     2019     320 pages

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