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To: c.hinton who wrote (246555)	10/25/2007 1:19:56 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Causes_of_the_1948_Palestinian exodus....both poimts of view...... This is not something that you decide by counting words. It is interesting to note, however, that for forty years you had a fairly settled story of Arab evacuations, panic and flight, with some expulsions, in the context of a prolonged war. Just read every source in your article that dates before 1960, and you see that the Arab and British accounts don't disagree much with the Zionist ones, or with the contemporaneous jouralistic accounts. Then in 1961 Walid Khalidi published a revised history that claimed the Zionists planned it all along. This didn't get much traction except with the Arabs until the Israeli New Historians like Benny Morris and Ilan Pappe hopped on in the 1980s and claimed to have new evidence drawn from the state archives. The reaction of the older generation of Israeli historians has not just been disagreement but outraged fury, saying that they turned the actual history on its head in order to makie a name for themselves, skewing the evidence and ignoring the context. Ephraim Karsh wrote a whole book called, Fabricating Israeli History. You can get some of Karsh's arguments in shorter form in Benny Morris and the Reign of Error by Efraim Karsh Middle East Quarterly March 1999 http://www.meforum.org/article/466 and Benny Morris's Reign of Error, Revisited The Post-Zionist Critique by Efraim Karsh Middle East Quarterly Spring 2005 meforum.org The first especially is a long argument where Karsh lays out Morris' pattern of selective quotation to give an impression at odds with a detailed reading of Ben Gurion's decision making.