The Largest Prison on Earth

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Through documents revealed for the first time, Israeli historian Ilan Pappe provides concrete evidence that the 1967 war was not the inevitable result of escalating tensions between Israel and both Syria and Egypt, as the prevailing historical narrative suggests. The speed with which the battle was decided, and the governing mechanism implemented immediately after the fighting, raise legitimate questions about what was truly planned. In reality, neither the 1948 UN resolutions that annexed 78% of the land of Palestine, nor all the world’s complicity, were sufficient to satisfy the Zionists’ ambition to control what they consider part of their historical homeland—the West Bank and Gaza Strip. They held numerous meetings behind closed doors, devising legal and organizational plans for their occupation and the expulsion of the Palestinians, and waited for the opportunity to implement their plans, which came nearly two decades later. No sooner had the dust settled than the Israelis began transforming the West Bank and Gaza into a vast prison. Palestinians became a people without identity, rights, or the basic necessities of life, their land torn apart by settlements planted like wedges. This covert plan remains in effect to this day. Israel has succeeded in emptying all peace initiatives of their substance, exploiting every Palestinian expression of anger to seize more land and escalate violence, humiliation, and genocide in order to establish a Jewish state of ethnic purity.