Whatever the reason, the book falls within the categories of rhetoric, dissimulation, and propaganda. Bergman has faithfully fulfilled the Israeli media position of an aggrieved Israeli state fighting off all the terrorists, while denying its own terror and ethnic cleansing within the Palestinian territory. Read it if you wish, but be guarded as to what you accept. [6]
[Ed. note: The books by Dr. Pappe and Mr. Simons carry the same title: "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine."]
[2] see Michael Karpin, The Bomb in the Basement – How Israel Went Nuclear and What That Means for the World.
[3] see various works by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, including Whiteout and Imperial Crusade.
[4] see Stephen Kinzer's All the Shah's Men (Wiley, 2003) and Overthrow (Times Books, 2006)
[5] this story is written in many of the books found under note 1 and in many other books. As this month is the 26th anniversary of the massacre there have been a number of recent internet articles as well on the topic, from which two excerpts:
Robert Fisk – "If the Israelis had not taken part in the killings, they had certainly sent militia into the camp. They had trained them, given them uniforms, handed them US army rations and Israeli medical equipment. They had watched the murderers in the camps, they had given them military assistance – the Israeli airforce dropped all those flare to help the men who were murdering the inhabitants of Sabra and Chatila – and they had established military liaison with the murderers in the camps." http://www.countercurrents.org/pa-fisk180903.htm
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