Crucial for understanding Israel-Palestine today

The writing is mediocre, but the content is profound. The heavy use of primary sources from official Israeli military records and Israeli officer accounts support the authors argument for classifying the 1948 actions by the new state of Israel as a crime against humanity under international law. I admit I did not at all realize the extent to which Israel conducted a systematic ethnic cleansing operation at scale. For some in America, views of Israel get caught up in religious affinity for the Israelites of the Bible, instilling an instinctive loyalty to modern Israel as the keepers of the Holy Land. But this is romantic. The reality is Israel as a secular state created by Zionists with a blind eye if not license from the British to massacre, loot, and expel an entire population of Muslim and Christian Palestinians who had lived inhabited their land for generations. Each of us in our respective national identities has the responsibility to own up to our past injustices so we can move forward to a better future with integrity. God knows we Americans have many. In that spirit I encourage my Israeli friends to read this book and consider its implications in the hopes that the younger generations can reach resolution and peace. The first step is likely public acknowledgement of what really happened in 1948.