George: My collegue, Lee Kaplan,(and editor of www.dafka.org) recently published an article on the mainstream online website "Front Page Magazine" about Illan Pappe who you put so much stock in. Here is an excerpt from his article:



One such “Israeli� who appeared at Fresno State’s “Palestine Day� was Illan Pappe, a University of Haifa history professor in Israel, who Americans, especially young college students, know nothing about other than he is an “Israeli peace advocate.� Pappe, who ran for Israel’s parliament as a Communist and was soundly rejected in Israel’s democracy then embarked on an ignominious campaign attacking Israel. As a tenured history professor (and a marginally recognized one in normal historical circles), Pappe found his niche and fortunes touring the world as an Israeli for the PLO. His most recent notoriety came about in Israel over a libel trial in which one of his protégés presented a thesis describing a massacre of Palestinians in 1948 that never occurred. [2] The Israeli soldiers accused of the atrocities sued and Pappe’s student, Theodore Katz, was forced on the witness stand to admit he fabricated the whole thing under Pappe’s direction as his faculty advisor. It later turned out the student was paid $8,000 by the PLO to do the story. The University of Haifa pulled the degree; Pappe still insists all is authentic, of course.

This was only one of several articles which questioned the content and practises of Illan Pappe which I was easily able to find on a google search. You have insisted Israel has committed these atrocities and massacres against Palestinian Arabs but your sources are highly suspect. To repeat these questionable events is to be guilty of spreading misinformation.