{"id":775,"date":"2008-10-12T23:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T23:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/10\/12\/israel\/"},"modified":"2008-10-12T23:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T23:37:00","slug":"israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/10\/12\/israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Commentary Magazine has an interesting article, 1948, Israel, and the Palestinians: Annotated Text<\/em>:<\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

During the past decade or so, the actual elimination of the Jewish state has become a cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre among many of these educated Westerners. The \u201cone-state solution,\u201d 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 \u201coriginal sin\u201d of Israel\u2019s founding, an act built (in the words of one critic) \u201con the ruins of Arab Palestine\u201d and achieved through the deliberate and aggressive dispossession of its native population.<\/p>\n

This claim of premeditated dispossession and the consequent creation of the longstanding Palestinian \u201crefugee problem\u201d forms, indeed, the central plank in the bill of particulars pressed by Israel\u2019s alleged victims and their Western supporters. It is a charge that has hardly gone undisputed. As early as the mid-1950\u2019s, the eminent American historian J.C. Hurewitz undertook a systematic refutation,[1] and his findings were abundantly confirmed by later generations of scholars and writers. Even Benny Morris, the most influential of Israel\u2019s revisionist \u201cnew historians,\u201d and one who went out of his way to establish the case for Israel\u2019s \u201coriginal sin,\u201d grudgingly stipulated that there was no \u201cdesign\u201d to displace the Palestinian Arabs.[2]<\/p>\n

The recent declassification of millions of documents from the period of the British Mandate (1920-1948) and Israel\u2019s early days, documents untapped by earlier generations of writers and ignored or distorted by the \u201cnew historians,\u201d paint a much more definitive picture of the historical record. They 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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Take a look at the whole thing.<\/p>\n

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