Näru, Makehaste, Steven Plaut kan inte ha rätt, att förneka att Deir Yassinmassakern ägde rum är ungefär lika befängt som att förneka Oradourmassakern, något inte ens mycket, ähum, nationella filurer gör, som synes i nedanstående länk:
http://library.flawlesslogic.com/oradour.htm
Men den chauvinistiska lögnaktigheten vad gäller den israeliska historieskrivningen om 1948-49 års krig är mycket utbredd, och de israeliska revisionistiska historiker (Avi Shlaim, Ilan Pappe och andra) som givit kloka och nyanserade skildringar av händelseförloppet som inbegriper skarp kritik av den hårdföra Jabotinskylinjens "revisionistiska sionism" möter i Sharons Israel så vitt jag förstår inte särskilt mycket förståelse.
Shlaims
The Iron Wall är mycket läsvärd:
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/200001...ized-past.html
Citat:
"---Avi Shlaim takes a bolder and richer approach than Morris'. His mastery of the sources and his explicit preferences win him the reader's trust for his decisions about what to highlight, when to summarize, and which shortcuts to take in retelling the complicated history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. By advancing a reasonably coherent interpretation and constructing a flowing narrative, Shlaim risks the criticism that the "real world" is too messy, contradictory, and ambiguous to fit into neat patterns. But this is usually a worthwhile price to pay for parsimony and provocation.
The principal theme of The Iron Wall is the constant disagreement between Israeli moderates and military activists on how to handle the conflict with the Arabs. According to Shlaim, moderates like Sharett, Levi Eshkol, and Abba Eban usually read the Middle East situation correctly and relied on diplomatic rather than military means, whereas activists like Ben-Gurion, Moshe Dayan, Ariel Sharon, Golda Meir, and Menachem Begin tended to miss important opportunities for negotiations that might well have prevented costly wars.---"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...00726?v=glance