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The myths and reality behind the state of Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - from "the most eloquent writer on Palestinian history" (New Statesman) . The outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel. The "ten myths" - repeated endlessly in the media, enforced by the military, and accepted without question by the world's governments - reinforce the regional status quo and include: * Palestine was an empty land at the time of the Balfour Declaration. * The Jews were a people without a land. * There is no difference between Zionism and Judaism. * Zionism is not a colonial project of occupation. * The Palestinians left their Homeland voluntarily in 1948.