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Exploding Palestinian and Israeli Myths 101, 4. August 1999
Von Ein Kunde
I first read this book in college obout 10 years ago, and I remember all the hoopla surrounding its publication. After re-reading it recently, I'm still amazed by how good a book this really is. Morris does three things well, and without rancor or polemetization: 1)he explains how the Palestinans fled/left/were driven out of Palestine in 1947-1949 2)he explains how well the Israelis had prepared for war, compared to the Arabs, and 3)he de-mythologizes David Ben-Gurion and the early Isreali leadership like American scholars have de-mythologized Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, etc. What is especially great about is that it describes the Palestinian refugee problem from a rational, historical and unbiased standpoint. The Jews are not devils, nor are they angels. Ditto with the Arabs, Nobody is sugarcoated. Some on both sides of the issue may disagree with some of the details of this book. I really don't know enough to decide either way. But I do sense that Morris has stumbled on the truth, or what can reasonably pass for the truth, about this complicated and terribly relevant topic.
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Same old story, 14. August 2008
It is fascinating to see how critics of Zionism generate from different sources to make up a common front. Morris apparently does not want to spoil relations with the arabs. What and who wounded the spirits? Asked a Shipler. What was first? Asks Morris. Did he think only about mutual hurt feelings, or also implanted or inherited dislike or even greater spirits behind? For him all was a result of simple war. Are there any other historic reasons? Morris pushes the same cart to make a sport of giving the Jews good advices. One should not forget that both the Arabs and the Jews have Holy books which tell them what they have to do and many of them believe it and make it as basis for their actions. And this might answer many questions. But this approach to causes and effects is not really respected by journalists. There is for example the promise JHWH, the God of Israel, gave to his people that he has set the Holy land as an heritage for ever. And there is on the other side the quran that orders the followers of Islam to free the world of infidels, not to speak of the areas which were already under Islam. This might be something which reasonable, rational thinking, educated people cannot really accept. But though it is out of scientific research it is yet a fact that has to be taken into account. Not that any of the arabs or jews involved in the conflict in the years 1947-1948 were aware of this, but later generations.
To blame Israel and the Jews or the West for the Middle Eastern mess is a widely propagated suggestion. But some say, it is all up to the arabs because they were the aggressors from the very start. They even boast with that.
The Palestinian question remains unsolved as long as the arabs have not what they want. The deplorable situations of the Palestinian refugees is needed for politics not by Jews but by arabs. The arabs could otherwise easily solve the problems of their Palestinian cousins if they just wanted it for the sake of them. It is forgotten that in 1948, as soon as a national Jewish homeland was created, more than eight hundred fifty thousand Jews fled from muslim lands, where they had lived. That was far more than the number of arab refugees who fled from Israel during the war of independence. There was always a strong community to assist the "Palestinian" refugees. Many programs were put into action and billions of Dollars expended for their assistance. During the same time no concern has been expressed so distinctly by the UN for the plight of the Jewish refugees who fled severe persecution in arab lands. They had to flee. The arabs had not! At least they had not in 1947 when arab armies would not have attacked Israel. Jewish refugees were not compensated for their losses, nor did they demand the return in their rights. Numerous times the mistreatment of Jews in Muslim countries in gross violation of the UN charta and of its declaration of human rights has been brought to the attention of the UN. But the appeals all fell on deaf ears.
Israels six hundred thousand settlers absorbed nearly seven hundred thousand refugees into normal life in that tiny little land, while under constant attack by arab armies. Yet arab nations with seven hundred times the land and huge oil revenues, refused to absorb five hundred thousand arab refugees which were ordered or "invited" by arabs, not by Jews, to leave the territory of Israel. From 1967 to 1985 income from oil of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia was nearly 1 trillion Dollars, yet in spite of the billions of dollars that they provide for terrorism, they contributed a pitiful 84 million to Palestinain refugees. By comparison since 1950 the USA, the country hated by most Palestinian arabs, has contributed 1,5 billion Dollars to the UN Relief and Welfare Agency for Palestinain refugees. Much of which was diverted by Arafat for terrorism against Israel. If arabs wanted, there were no problem in Palestina or for any Palestinians. They could give all the refugees and the arab minorities in Israel a place to live. They could easily live in peace with Israel. Israel is willing. Arabs are not. I understand why Israelis are always very mistrustful to everybody. They see that they are at last standing alone.
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Sets a New Standard for Scholarship, 11. Oktober 1999
The history of the Arab-Israeli conflict has been marred by myths and accusations from all sides. Benny Morris takes a major step in setting straight the course of history as it happened. Morris attempts to see the people in his history for who they really were; he does not attempt to glamorize one side while making another the villian. This book attempts to explain the flight of the Palestinians from their homes during the war with the Israelis. While he does not find that the Arab states produced their flight as Israel has claimed, he also does not claim that Israel tried to drive them out with Plan D. Rather, Plan D was military in nature, not political. Its goals were to establish security for the Jews in the country. By doing so, local Arabs were set into flight by the victories won by the Haganah. The Intermixed populations made such a result inevitable. In other words, once a war broke, the loser would have been forced to flee no matter what. It just happened that the Jews were the better prepared side.
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