"What shall we do with the Arabs ?" Ben-Gurion made a dismissive, energetic gesture with his hand and said:
"Expel them"
(Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949 (Cambridge, 1987) p. 207).
"...an examination of the documentation used by several key 'new historians', as well as of sources witheld from their readers, led to the disturbing conclusion that Morris's [one of the 'new historians' Benny Morris] were neither a fluke nor an exception. Rather they typified the modus operandi of a sizeable group of academics, jornalists, and commentators, who had predicated their professional careers on rewriting Israel's history in an image of their own choosing so as to cast it in the role of the regional villain. This is not a matter of contending interpretations or different readings of documents-both of which are perfectly legitimate aspects of scholarly research.It is a deliberate attempt at historical distortion. Nothing more, nothing less.
(Karsh is Director of Mediterranean Studies at King's College, University of London).from: Fabricating Israeli History(2001) Preface by Efraim Karsh.