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Article: 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War.(Book review)
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- Military Review
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- November 1, 2008
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1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War, Benny Morris, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2008, 524 pages, $32.50.
Conventional wisdom holds that the Arab-Israeli conflict is at the heart of the broader problems of the Middle East, yet the facts concerning this conflict remain in dispute. Many Americans, raised on the idealized image of Israeli settlers as persecuted and outnumbered heroes in a prolonged struggle against hordes of malevolent Arabs, find it difficult to understand the very different images commonly held in the Arab world.
Benny Morris, like Avi Shlaim and other recent Israeli historians, seeks to provide a more balanced ...