A fascinating and disturbing interview with controversial Israeli historian, Benny Morris, is worth reading in Ha’aretz. The most common criticism of Morris is that he has both exposed some of the original sins of the state of Israel, while remaining a Zionist. Morris embraces both positions in this interview. Money quote:
Ha’aretz: Ben-Gurion was a “transferist”?
Morris: “Of course. Ben-Gurion was a transferist. He understood that there could be no Jewish state with a large and hostile Arab minority in its midst. There would be no such state. It would not be able to exist.”
Ha’aretz: I don’t hear you condemning him.
Morris: “Ben-Gurion was right. If he had not done what he did, a state would not have come into being. That has to be clear. It is impossible to evade it. Without the uprooting of the Palestinians, a Jewish state would not have arisen here.”
Read the whole thing.
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