Three years after the Allied victory of World War II and the tragic
             details of the Holocaust were revealed to the world, the United Nations
             recognized Israel as an independent state on May 15th, 1948. Ilan Pappe's
             The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine is a revisionist work that aims to
             reveal, as Pappe believes, the true narrative of the 1948 Israeli War of
             Independence. His main thesis is that David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first
             Prime Minister, and other Jewish leaders planned and executed a detailed
             and brutal ethnic cleansing of the Arab population residing in Palestine.
             Pappe contends that the plan, entitled Plan D or Plan Dalet, was carefully
             crafted for the Hagana, the precursor to the Israeli army, to carry out
             even before the British Mandate was lifted and UN Partition went into
             effect. He contends that early Zionists are mainly to blame for violence
             towards the Arabs, and that in discussing the events of 1948, the "ethnic
             cleansing paradigm" should replace the "paradigm of war" when researching
             and discussing what is at the ideological core of such events.[1] Benny
             Morris, another revisionist historian wrote the precursor to Pappe's work
             in 1987, entitled The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem. He states
             that Morris used the "war paradigm" to describe the events of 1948, and
             that evicting Arabs from their homeland was inevitable. It is evident in
             the Preface that Pappe's work is a move further away from the Zionist
             narrative, one closer to Morris', in comparison to that of his own work to
             He claims the previous revisionist works, particularly Morris's, are
             incomplete based on the fact that Morris relied mainly on Israeli documents
             and did not include Arab or oral sources. Based on his research, he
             contends that uprooting Palestinians began before Israel was an official
             state and new borders for Israel were drawn. He uses other historians' work
             as a reference when explaining...