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To: Lent
Don't pick and choose quotes from Morris.

Like this one?

"the Israeli historian Benny Morris found an Israeli Intelligence report that estimated that 70 percent of those who fled in the decisive period up to 1 June 1948 did so as a result of direct or nearby Jewish military or paramilitary action. In other words, they fled either because they were expelled or because they thought their lives were in immediate danger, not because they voluntarily 'abandoned' their homes...

187 posted on 10/05/2001 9:42:20 AM PDT by AGAviator
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To: AGAviator
Benny Morris is your sole source is it? I just indicated to you the fraud which Morris has committed on truncated quotations and his use of sources.You use him and Palestinian souces to prop up your assessment. Morris is referring to 70% up to the June date. His figure is contrived and artificial as it is based on one source

Here is what Morris really states when he's not manipulating the sources as he's done many times:

Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, p. 3ff.

It cannot be stressed too strongly that, while this is not a military history, the events describes -- cumulatively amounting to the Palestinian Arab exodus -- occurred in wartime and were a product, direct and indirect, of that war. Throughout, when examining what happened in each area at different points in the war, the reader must recall the nature of the backdrop - the continuing clash of arms between  Palestinian militiamen and later, regular Arab armies and the Yishuv (the collective term for the Jewish community in Palestine before and during 1948); the intention of the Palestinian leadership and irregulars and, later, of most of the Arab states' leaders and armies in launching the hostilities in November-December 1947 and the May 1948 invasion to destroy the Jewish state and possibly the Yishuv; the fears of the Yishuv that the Palestinians and the Arab states, if given the chance, intended to re-enact a Middle Eastern version of the Holocaust (a bare three years after the horrendous European version had ended); and the extremely small dimensions (geographical and numerical) of the Yishuv in comparison with the Palestinian Arab community and the infinitely larger surrounding Arab hinterland.
Hey, looks like Morris notes again YOUR ARAB friends  started the war. If the Arabs started the war then they should take responsibility for the 600,000 exodus.
 

188 posted on 10/05/2001 9:59:37 AM PDT by Lent
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