[Lent]

"[Morris] is denying that his views have shifted. He claims that this was his opinion all along. However, no one knew it. Even when he expressed his opinion, the interviewers preferred not to quote him on that.

Since I've read his book, The Birth Of the Palestinian Refugee Problem this is no surprise. While typically categorized as a "New Historian", Morris, when he kept with the historical record was pretty good and indeed reflected exactly the blame he is indicating in this article, i.e, on the Arabs. It's when he started fooling around with the primary sources where the problems arose as Efraim Karsh pointedly showed in his book Fabricating Israeli History(2000).

[dennisw]

Good from Morris. One of the Jews that exiledintaiwan likes to quote.

[dennisw]

Good from Morris. One of the Jews that exiledintaiwan likes to quote.