In 1988, three books by Israel’s “new historians” appeared that dismantled the myths surrounding the Israeli state’s foundation forty years earlier: The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947–1948 by Benny Morris, Britain and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948–1951 by Ilan Pappé, and Collusion across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement, and the Partition of […]

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