‘It was necessary to uproot them’
Charles Glass: Post-Zionist historiography, 24 June 2004
A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples
by Ilan Pappe.
Cambridge, 333 pp., £15.99, January 2004,0 521 55632 5 Show More
by Ilan Pappe.
Cambridge, 333 pp., £15.99, January 2004,
The Gun and the Olive Branch
by David Hirst.
Faber, 624 pp., £16.99, August 2003,0 571 21945 4 Show More
by David Hirst.
Faber, 624 pp., £16.99, August 2003,
The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited
by Benny Morris.
Cambridge, 664 pp., £70, January 2004,0 521 81120 1 Show More
by Benny Morris.
Cambridge, 664 pp., £70, January 2004,
“... Party had kept secret during its uninterrupted period in power from 1948. The Labour patriarch David Ben-Gurion had called Begin a ‘Jewish Hitler’. Begin, a zealot but a legalist, had called Ben-Gurion’s extension of the repressive British Defence Regulations, although enforced mainly against Israel’s Arabs, ‘Nazi laws’ and vowed to resist ... ”