Saturday, May 16, 2009

A New Benny Morris Article

A Relativist Muddle - The portrayal of pre-1948 Zionists as saintly and Israelis today as brutal is a misreading of history

...since before its inception, the Arab world has laid siege to the Zionist enterprise and tried to destroy or badly weaken it, in war after war and terrorist campaign after terrorist campaign, by continuous political delegitimisation, assault and boycott. And that much that is bad about Israel today – insensitivity toward Palestinian suffering, declining school standards, even the growing power of religious parties – is, directly and indirectly a result of this Arab belligerence.


Read it all.

1 comment:

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