Re: 1948, Israel and the Palestinians: The True Story

Thanks for the link/article!

Susan


On 29-May-2008, Yisroel Markov <ey.markov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

By Efraim Karsh

Sixty years after its establishment by an internationally recognized
act of self-determination, Israel remains the only state in the world
that is subjected to a constant outpouring of the most outlandish
conspiracy theories and blood libels; whose policies and actions are
obsessively condemned by the international community; and whose right
to exist is constantly debated and challenged not only by its Arab
enemies but by segments of advanced opinion in the West.

During the past decade or so, the actual elimination of the Jewish
state has become a cause célèbre among many of these educated
Westerners. The "one-state solution," as it is called, is a
euphemistic formula proposing the replacement of Israel by a state,
theoretically comprising the whole of historic Palestine, in which
Jews will be reduced to the status of a permanent minority. Only this,
it is said, can expiate the "original sin" of Israel's founding, an
act built (in the words of one critic) "on the ruins of Arab
Palestine" and achieved through the deliberate and aggressive
dispossession of its native population.

This claim of premeditated dispossession and the consequent creation
of the longstanding Palestinian "refugee problem" forms, indeed, the
central plank in the bill of particulars pressed by Israel's alleged
victims and their Western supporters. It is a charge that has hardly
gone undisputed. As early as the mid-1950s, the eminent American
historian J.C. Hurewitz undertook a systematic refutation, and his
findings were abundantly confirmed by later generations of scholars
and writers. Even Benny Morris, the most influential of Israel's
revisionist "new historians," and one who went out of his way to
establish the case for Israel's "original sin," grudgingly stipulated
that there was no "design" to displace the Palestinian Arabs.

The recent declassification of millions of documents from the period
of the British Mandate (1920-48) and Israel's early days, documents
untapped by earlier generations of writers and ignored or distorted by
the "new historians," paints a much more definitive picture of the
historical record. These documents reveal that the claim of
dispossession is not only completely unfounded but the inverse of the
truth. What follows is based on fresh research into these documents,
which contain many facts and data hitherto unreported.

Full article at
http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB121019679929074973.html

Yisroel "Godwrestler Warriorson" Markov - Boston, MA Member
www.reason.com -- for unbiased analysis of the world DNRC
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