Righteous Victims
Benny Morris’s history of the conflict between Zionism and the Arabs of Palestine from 1881 to 2001. Drawing on Israeli and British archives, it covers the wars, uprisings and failed peace efforts of more than a century, and treats both sides as the victims they believed themselves to be.
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Alon Hilu
Benny Morris, together with Ilan Pappe and other historians, is an historian who took it upon himself to check what really happened here in early Zionism. He describes, for example, what happened in 1948. Usually with Israel we tell ourselves that in the 48 War the Palestinians ran away and didn’t want to come back. And he showed that in some cases the situation was quite different.
Interview · March 2010
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