1948 and After: Israel and the Palestinians / Edition 1

ISBN-13:	9780198279297
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/19/1994
Series:	Clarendon Paperbacks
Edition description:	REVISED & EXPANDED
Pages:	382
Sales rank:	325,410
Product dimensions:	8.52(w) x 5.60(h) x 0.97(d)

These essays by a leading Israeli historian focus on Israeli decisions and the reasons behind the mass Arab exile from Palestine in 1948. Benny Morris addresses the transfer of Majdal's Arabs to Gaza in 1950, the initial absorption of the Palestinian refugees in Arab host countries in 1948-9, and why some Arabs remained in their villages. He then explores attitudes toward the Palestinian Arabs from the 1948 war to the differing perspectives of Israel's two main parties. By examining past and present Israeli historiography, Morris identifies and analyzes the major points of controversy between the "old" official Israeli histories and the "new" histories of the 1980s and beyond.