Enemy of the State: A Conversation with Ilan Pappé.

Israeli academic Ilan Pappé first came to prominence in the 1980s as a member of Israel's “New Historian” movement, which chronicled the war crimes and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians in the first Arab-Israeli war of 1948. Dr. Pappe teaches political science at Haifa University and is the academic director of the Research Institute for Peace at Givat Haviva. He is currently writing a second edition of his most recent book, A History of Modern Palestine, One Land, Two Peoples (2004). The following interview was conducted by Don Atapattu, a free-lance writer in London. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]