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A Very Short History of the Israel - Palestine Conflict by Ilan Pappé
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5.0
Loved it.
160 pages?
On the entire history of the Israel-Palestine conflict?
Published in 2024, including details up to and after last October?
Pappé is my favourite pro-Palestinian nonfiction author. And I’m used to him writing 800 page mega-detailed books on just a tiny section of the history. That I hesitate to broadly recommend because—it’s true, they’re a lot.
But 160 pages?
I thought I knew what this book would be like: a general, birds-eye-view kind of thing…
Wrong. It was super specific, super detailed. I didn’t think it was possible for a book to be this short, this thorough, and this detailed at once. I’m obsessed. I listened to this audiobook in one sitting just… in awe, honestly.
160 pages?
On the entire history of the Israel-Palestine conflict?
Published in 2024, including details up to and after last October?
Pappé is my favourite pro-Palestinian nonfiction author. And I’m used to him writing 800 page mega-detailed books on just a tiny section of the history. That I hesitate to broadly recommend because—it’s true, they’re a lot.
But 160 pages?
I thought I knew what this book would be like: a general, birds-eye-view kind of thing…
Wrong. It was super specific, super detailed. I didn’t think it was possible for a book to be this short, this thorough, and this detailed at once. I’m obsessed. I listened to this audiobook in one sitting just… in awe, honestly.