lan Pappe on the western awakening and what it means for Israel/Palestine

[Little Tich]

10. I've read two books that Pappe wrote, and I think they were OK.

I'm usually pretty good at sniffing out BS, and I didn't get the impression that there was anything wrong with them. I think your opinion is unfounded, or at least based on bias rather than fact.

Most books on Israeli history are terrible, they often present a falsified version that vilifies the Arabs and absolves the nascent Israel of any wrongdoing, when in many respects, the truth is the opposite. As an example of bad historians, Efraim Karsh is one of these revisionists, and he should be banned from writing or speaking about Israeli history.

While Ilan Pappe displays an obvious anti-Zionist bias, he's not factually wrong. In the article you provided, Morris' criticism is really minor. He never challenges anything that would actually change the arguments that Pappe makes, whether that argument is that plan Dalet was premeditated or that the refugees were victims of ethnic cleansing.

PS: Your criticism of Ilan Pappe forced me to read this crap. Maybe you will enjoy it.:

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Reviewed by Seth J. Frantzman
http://www.meforum.org/1886/the-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestine