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Entry: Rethinking 1948 Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/rethinking_1948#28125 Post contents: Why is it this issue (at least in this country) is framed always from an Israeli view? Just because Morris said a couple of things in the past that clashed in some respects with the Pollyanna view of the Zionist enterprise doesn't mean he doesn't approach his subject steeped in all sorts of Israeli Jewish-centric biases. Moreover, from the little narrative that Hebrew University Professor Creveld provides, its fairly clear Morris is on a mission of sorts to backtrack on his previous scholarship given his recent political disillusionment with the Palestinians. Morris is writing feel good Israeli Jewish propaganda, with a few minor dissents to make the effort look objective and scholarly. Palestinians need to be let into the historical debate of what happened to Palestine when the Zionists decided to create their "homeland". Israeli Jews, no matter how supposedly well intentioned, objective,or scholarly they are reputed to be,cannot speak for the Palestinian side of the equation. Sent at: 2008 12 03