5-30-2018 Finding the truth amid Israel’s lies – Ilan Pappe Electronic Intifada

https://electronicintifada.net/content/finding-truth-amid-israels-lies/24531

…[Moshe Carmel toured the Galilee at the end of October 1948, after commanding Operation Hiram, in which Israeli forces committed some of the worst atrocities in the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. The crimes were so serious that some leading Zionists described them as Nazi actions.  Carmel's book [Northern Campaigns] and dozens like it – brigade books, memoirs and military histories – could be found on the shelves of Israeli Jewish homes from 1948 onwards. Revisiting them, 70 years on, reveals an elementary truth: it would have been possible to write the "new history" of 1948 without a single new declassified document, but only if these open sources, as I call them, had been read with non-Zionist lenses…

Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

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