Um, no, I've studied this at great length over many years. I think we may disagree, but please do not make the mistake of thinking me uninformed.
And I think one is likely to find a little more reliable information in books than on websites. The latter are generally just propaganda factories (on both sides).
I'd suggest reading Avi Shlaim's The Iron Wall (in which, IIRC, he quotes no less than Theodore Herzl saying that, basically, the Arabs have to be removed from Palestine, either by driving them out or by, well, making them disappear). The volume of the Cambridge Middle East Studies series that Shlaim and Eugene Rogan edited is also a good source. Benny Morris's Righteous Victims is also worth a read, as are Sachar's A History of Israel, and The Palestinian People by Baruch Kimmerling and Joel Migdal. David Shipler's Arab and Jew is an excellent book (no surprise it won a Pulitzer), and the quite recent How Israel Lost: The Four Questions by Richard Ben Cramer is more informal, but also more chilling and depressing, a view of Israel by another Pulitzer Prize winner (Cramer, an American Jew, won his for his reporting on Israel, a country he loves deeply).
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Date: 2004-12-11 05:00 am (UTC)And I think one is likely to find a little more reliable information in books than on websites. The latter are generally just propaganda factories (on both sides).
I'd suggest reading Avi Shlaim's The Iron Wall (in which, IIRC, he quotes no less than Theodore Herzl saying that, basically, the Arabs have to be removed from Palestine, either by driving them out or by, well, making them disappear). The volume of the Cambridge Middle East Studies series that Shlaim and Eugene Rogan edited is also a good source. Benny Morris's Righteous Victims is also worth a read, as are Sachar's A History of Israel, and The Palestinian People by Baruch Kimmerling and Joel Migdal. David Shipler's Arab and Jew is an excellent book (no surprise it won a Pulitzer), and the quite recent How Israel Lost: The Four Questions by Richard Ben Cramer is more informal, but also more chilling and depressing, a view of Israel by another Pulitzer Prize winner (Cramer, an American Jew, won his for his reporting on Israel, a country he loves deeply).