Posted on 10/05/08
Israel's endless birth pains
1948The First Arab-Israeli WarBy Benny MorrisYale University Press,524 pages, $32.50Benny Morris established his reputation as the leading "new historian" among Israeli academics with the publication of The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem in 1988. This group of scholars was determined to strip away the mythology surrounding the established Israeli narrative, the David and Goliath analogy, and explore what really happened within the Zionist enterprise at the birth of Israel. They presented their "cold hard truth" and faced a storm of invective as many Israelis and their Diaspora supporters saw their most cherished beliefs challenged as never before.
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