Summary of author's thesis: In his book, Ilan Pappe has a very clear thesis: that what happened in Palestine from 1947-1948 fits every definition of ethnic cleansing and crime of humanity out there and it has globally been forgotten. He "want to make the case for the paradigm of ethnic cleansing and use[s] it to replace the paradigm of war as the basis for the scholarly research of, and public debate about, 1948.”(Pappe preface xvii). Pappe uses a lot of supporting evidence such as plan dalet; recently release files from the British Mandate; quotes from Ben Gurion's diary; quotes from Israeli soldiers; records of Palestinian villages; records of new Israeli sites that cover old palestinian villages or places where mass expulsions occurred;
