The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited (Cambridge Middle East Studies) |
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Benny Morris
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Pages: 664 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0521009677
Pub: Cambridge University Press
Pub date: 2003-12-11
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 203472
Reader Reviews:
Excellent, But With a Flawed Conclusion. (1/1 people found this helpful)
This is an update of Morris' groundbreaking 1988 study, which finally shattered the Zionist myth that Palestinian refugees left Palestine in 1947/48 because they were told to do so by their own leaders. In reality the myth had been nailed before this but Morris went through Israeli military archives to show that the standard myth could not be sustained even from within the Zionists own documents.
In `Revisited', Morris adds more research to flesh out his previous work. We see from the Zionist archives how pretty much every city, town, village, hamlet and farm that was cleansed, was cleansed of its indigenous people. It makes for a grim slog through over 600 pages. Numerous massacres are carefully documented, even though Morris shrinks from calling a massacre a massacre, preferring instead to call them `eliminations', `executions' and other such terms.
The evidence for a massive crime against humanity is there for all to see. Which makes Morris' conclusion, that the cleansing of Palestine was a result of `war not design', all the more surprising and, frankly, unsustainable.
I recommend that you follow this work up with Ilan Pappe's `The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine' which puts the events Morris documents so carefully into their political and historical context.
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