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By Ilan Pappé
For greater than 60 years, thousands of Palestinians have lived as Israeli electorate in the borders of the state shaped on the finish of the 1948 clash. Occupying a precarious center floor among the Jewish voters of Israel and the dispossessed Palestinians of the West financial institution and the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Palestinians have built an exceptionally advanced dating with the land they name domestic; in spite of the fact that, within the innumerable discussions of the Israel-Palestine challenge, their stories are frequently neglected and forgotten.
In this publication, historian Ilan Pappé examines how Israeli Palestinians have fared less than Jewish rule and what their lives let us know approximately either Israel's angle towards minorities and Palestinians' attitudes towards the Jewish nation. Drawing upon major archival and interview fabric, Pappé analyzes the Israeli state's coverage in the direction of its Palestinian electorate, discovering discrimination in issues of housing, schooling, and civil rights. conscientiously researched but hugely readable, The Forgotten Palestinians brings a brand new and much-needed point of view to the Israel-Palestine debate.
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In the new Jewish state a Jew became an ethnic identity and a Jew was, apparently, someone who was not an ‘Arab’ – not any Arab but someone who was not a Palestinian. Without such a definition the question of who was a Jew, a permanent source of trouble in the history of Israeli law-making and administration, would have remained an insoluble issue between religious and national definitions. 16 OUT OF THE ASHES OF THE NAKBAH | 25 GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION The new minority lived in six geographical areas in the state.
There were also those among the politicians who decided to learn and adapt to the rules of the Israeli system and try to protect the community from further erosion in its status and rights. These activists continued their public struggle throughout the early years of the military rule and I will name them in the next chapter to avoid overburdening the reader with too many details; here I just want to note that whoever decided to represent the community politically did so very early on. The political elite we refer to are those who opted for a middle course, believing that their legal position enabled them to protest within the state organs such as the Knesset or the local press – and this despite the fact that they lived under military rule.
32 The Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, shared Palmon’s uncompromising view on the Palestinian minority: he regarded them as inherently hostile, a ‘fifth column’. 33 The presence of Palestinians in any number was an anathema for David Ben-Gurion, who had planned and supervised the ethnic cleansing of as many as possible. He now wanted to enclave the Palestinians within security zones and impose military rule upon them. Some of his colleagues, even those who were privy to that policy back in 1948, were now willing to ‘tolerate’ the presence of Palestinians in the Jewish state and did not see the necessity of Ben-Gurion’s harsh measures.