Benny Morris

A History of the First Arab-Israeli War

1948

مولد مشكلة اللاجئين الفلسطينيين - الجزء الأول

Dror Ze’evi

From 1894 to 1924 three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region’s Christian minorities. Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi’s impeccably researched account is the first to show that the three were actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia’s Christian population and create a pure Muslim nation.

Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924

The Thirty-Year Genocide

"Righteous Victims ends with Mr. Morris's analysis of the current state of play, when the election of Ehud Barak as prime minister (May 1999) has opened the door to a renewal of negotiations between Israel and its Palestinian and Syrian neighbors."--BOOK JACKET.

A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001

Righteous Victims

resolving the Israel/Palestine conflict

One state, two states

مولد مشكلة اللاجئين الفلسطينين - الجزء الثاني

Ian Black

Surveys Israeli intelligence operations from the 1930s to the Ostrovsky affair and describes relations with the American intelligence community

A History of Israel's Intelligence Services

Israel's Secret Wars

Master Spy

Sidney Reilly

Israel and the Palestinians (Clarendon Paperbacks)

1948 and After

The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited (Cambridge Middle East Studies)

Vittime. Storia del conflitto arabo-sionista 1881-2001

Benny Morris is the founding father of the New Historians, a group of Israeli scholars who have challenged long-established perceptions about the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Their research rigorously documented crimes and atrocities committed by the Israeli armed forces, including rape, torture, and ethnic cleansing. With Making Israel, Morris brings together the first collection of translated articles on the New History by leading Zionist and revisionist Israeli historians, providing Americans with a firsthand view of this important debate and enabling a better understanding of how the New Historians have influenced Israelis' awareness of their own past. "The study of Israeli history, society, politics, and economics over the past two decades has been marked by a fierce and sometimes highly personal debate between 'traditionalists'---scholars who generally interpreted Israeli history and society within the Zionist ethos---and 'revisionists'---scholars who challenged conventional Zionist narratives of Israeli history and society. Making Israel brings together traditionalists and revisionists who openly and directly lay out their key insights about Israel's origins. It also introduces multidisciplinary perspectives on Israel by historians and sociologists, each bringing into the debate its own jargon, its own epistemology and methodology, and its own array of substantive issues. This is essential reading for anybody who wants to understand the different interpretations of Israeli society and perhaps the central debate among students of modern Israel." ---Zeev Maoz, Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis, and Distinguished Fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya "Israel's 'new historians' have done a great service to their country, and to all who care about the Arab-Israeli conflict. By challenging myths, reexamining evidence, and asking truly important questions about the past they help to confront the present with honesty and realism. This book provides a sampling of the best of what these courageous voices have to offer." ---William B. Quandt, University of Virginia Benny Morris is Professor of Middle East history at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba, Israel, and is the author of Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999.

Making Israel

Tracing the roots of the conflict between the Arabs and the Jews for possession of the land they both claim, this text examines the deep religious, ethnic, and political differences between the Zionist immigrants and the native Arab population.;Drawing on archives and memoirs as well as secondary works, Benny Morris portrays the chief protagonists among the politicians, generals and diplomats on both sides, evaluating their successess and failures, recording the shifts of military advantage and the vicissitudes of the peace efforts from the post-1948 negotiations.

A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999

These essays by a leading Israeli "new historian" focus on Israeli decisions and the reasons behind the mass Arab exile from Palestine in 1948. 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.

Israel and the Palestinians

This history of the foundational war in the Arab-Israeli conflict gives an account of both the military engagements and the war's political dimension. The author probes the motives and aims of the protagonists on the basis of newly opened Israeli and Western documentation.

This book is the first full-length study of the birth of the Palestinian refugee problem. Based on recently declassified Israeli, British and American state and party political papers and on hitherto untapped private papers, it traces the stages of the 1947-9 exodus against the backdrop of the first Arab-Israeli war and analyses the varied causes of the flight. The Jewish and Arab decision-making involved, on national and local levels, military and political, is described and explained, as is the crystallisation of Israel's decision to bar a refugee repatriation. The subsequent fate of the abandoned Arab villages, lands and urban neighbourhoods is examined. The study looks at the international context of the war and the exodus, and describes the political battle over the refugees' fate, which effectively ended with the deadlock at Lausanne in summer 1949. Throughout the book attempts to describe what happened rather than what successive generations of Israeli and Arab propagandists have said happened, and to explain the motives of the protagonists.

The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949

Research Fellow Truman Institute Benny Morris

Presents an analysis of the causes, battles, and outcome of the Israel-Arab War.

The Untold History of Israeli Intelligence

Stát Izrael budí již od svého dramatického vzniku v roce 1948 obrovskou pozornost, která je čas od času oživována neméně dramatickými a bouřlivými událostmi. Po první arabsko-izraelské válce v letech 1948–49 následovala tzv. Suezská válka v roce 1956, Šestidenní válka v roce 1967 a Jomkippurská válka v roce 1947 a také izraelská invaze do Libanonu v roce 1982 a první palestinská Intifáda od roku 1987. Následovalo ještě mnoho dalších dnes již legendárních historických momentů. Je skutečně až s podivem, kolik se toho za posledních šedesát let událo okolo malé země jménem Izrael. Vzrušující a nedílnou součástí izraelských dějin byl a dodnes je rovněž nemilosrdný zákulisní boj izraelských tajných služeb. Právě ty izraelské si oprávněně vydobyly po celém světě reputaci obávaného a efektivního nástroje v boji proti (nejen) arabským teroristickým skupinám. Jednu ze slavných epizod jejich existence nám připomíná kontroverzní snímek kultovního režiséra Stevena Spielberga nazvaný zcela prostě Mnichov. Pro pamětníky a odbornou veřejnost je Mnichov 1972 známým pojmem a také mementem jedné z vůbec nejtragičtějších událostí izraelsko-arabského konfliktu. Smrt jedenácti izraelských sportovců na olympiádě, zasvěcené symbolicky míru, vyprovokovala jednu z nejslavnějších operací v dějinách státu Izrael. Odveta izraelské zpravodajské služby Mossad za tento útok vešla do dějin jako legenda ve světě tajných služeb a je popsána také v této knize.

Mossad

Benny Morris' The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem was published in 1988. Its startling revelations about how and why 700,000 Palestinians left their homes and became refugees during the Arab-Israeli war in 1948 undermined traditional interpretations as to whether they left voluntarily or were expelled as part of a systematic plan. This book represents a revised edition of the earlier work, compiled on the basis of newly-opened Israeli military archives. While the focus remains the 1948 war and the analysis of the Palestinian exodus, the new material contains more information about what happened in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Haifa, and how events there led to the collapse of Palestinian urban society. It also sheds light on the battles and atrocities that resulted in the disintegration of rural communities. The story is a harrowing one. The refugees now number four million and their existence remains a major obstacle to peace.

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