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by Eugene L.
Rogan (Editor), Avi Shlaim (Editor)
More than half a century has passed since the end of the 1948
Palestine War.
The war, which the Israelis call the "War of Independence" and
the Palestinians refer to as "the
disaster,"
has been the subject of passionate public debate and numerous
scholarly writings in recent years. The official Israeli
version of the birth of the Palestinian refugee problem has
been challenged by, among other people, a group of Israeli
scholars who are variably called the "new historians" or the
"revisionists." In this edited volume, Rogan and Shlaim, two
prominent scholars of the modern Middle East at the University
of Oxford, have brought together leading Israeli revisionist
historians with noted Arab and Western scholars to explain the
historical and contemporary significance of the 1948 War from
various perspectives. In addition to the editors themselves,
contributors to this erudite and immensely informative volume
include Rashid Khalidi, Benny Morris, Charles Tripp, Joshua
Landis, Laila Parsons, Edward Said, and Fawaz Gerges. Their
general consensus is that the Palestinian refugee problem
resulted not from voluntary flight but from the specific
policies of Zionist authorities during the creation of the
state of Israel. Highly recommended for public and demic
libraries. Nader Entessar, Spring Hill Coll., Mobile, AL.
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