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In 1948, a war broke out that would result in Israeli independence and the erasure of Arab Palestine. Over twenty months, thousands of Jews and Arabs came from all over the world to join those already on the ground to fight in the ranks of the Israel Defense Forces andā¦
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Examines how the architects of the conflict worked to influence and indoctrinate their respective ideologies in the ordinary soldiers by analyzing the battle orders, pamphlets, army journals, and recordings of radio broadcasts in Hebrew, Arabic, and English. Through two overarching narratives ā the official and unofficial, the propaganda and personal letters, Dear Palestine reveals the fissures between āsanctioned nationalismā and individual experience and identity. This book reminds one that everyday individualās fears, bravery, hubris, base cruelty, lies, and fantasies are as important in history as the preoccupations of the elites.
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