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To: maceng2 who wrote (12462)	12/2/2001 9:31:53 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

No wonder some people prefer myth to truth. Yes, like the ones that get reprinted in the Arab propaganda rag that goes by the innocuous name of The Washington Report. As for Benny Morris, his rewriting of history deserves a book to itself, and has gotten one, by Ephraim Karsh. For a long and detailed description of how he misquotes and mistranslates his sources, read: Benny Morris and the Reign of Error by Efraim Karsh Efraim Karsh is professor of Mediterranean studies at King's College, University of London, and editor of Israel Affairs. As a general rule, every war is fought twice: first on the battlefield, then in the historiographical arena. The Arabs failed to destroy the State of Israel in 1948; in the next fifty years, they and their Western partisans waged a sustained propaganda battle to cast the birth of Israel as the source of all evil. In the late 1980s this effort received a major boost with the advent of a group of Israeli academics calling themselves the New Historians who claim to have discovered archival evidence substantiating the anti-Israeli case. These politicized historians have turned the saga of Israel's birth upside down, with aggressors turned into hapless victims and the reverse. The Jewish acceptance of the United Nations Resolution of November 29, 1947, partitioning Mandatory Palestine into two new states—Jewish and Arab—is completely ignored or dismissed as a disingenuous ploy; similarly, the violent Palestinian and Arab attempt to abort this resolution is overlooked. The concerted Arab attack on the newly-established State of Israel in mid-May 1948 is whitewashed as a haphazard move by ill-equipped and poorly trained armies confronted with a formidable Jewish force. It has even been suggested that the Palestinians, rather than the Israelis, were the target of this concerted Arab attack.1 meforum.org