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6 unusual facts about Benny Morris


By Way of Deception

Critics such as Benny Morris argue the book is essentially a novel, a case officer would not have had access to so many operational secrets.

Causes of the 1948 Palestinian exodus

Benny Morris considers that there was no master plan nor ethnic cleansing.

In the 1980s, historian Benny Morris became the most well-known advocate of the existence of the "transfer idea".

Freedom of religion in the Palestinian territories

Israeli historian Benny Morris believes that Christian-Muslim relations constitute a divisive element in Palestinian society.

John Bagot Glubb

Benny Morris, The Road to Jerusalem: Glubb Pasha, Palestine and the Jews, ISBN 1-86064-812-6

Khartoum Resolution

Benny Morris wrote that the Arab leaders "hammered out a defiant, rejectionist platform that was to bedevil all peace moves in the region for a decade."


Fir'im

By late June 1948, Israeli military intelligence reported (somewhat inaccurately, according to Morris), that "All the Arab villages in the Safad area as far northwestward as Sasa were empty".

Image and Reality of the Israel–Palestine Conflict

Finkelstein examines and scrutinizes popular historical versions of the conflict by authors such as Joan Peters, Benny Morris, Anita Shapira and Abba Eban.

Najd, Gaza

According to Benny Morris, the villagers of Najd were "driven out" by soldiers from the Negev Brigade on 12–13 May, during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.


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