Benny Morris is a visiting professor in Israel studies at Georgetown University and the author of, among other books, 1948: A History of the First Arab–Israeli War (Yale, 2008).
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The pre-state militia had actually prepared well for the outbreak of war in 1948. But its commanders generally hailed from rival political parties to Ben-Gurion's.
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How much of an expansionist was the leader of the yishuv, soon to be the first prime minister of the state of Israel?
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A Jewish state would have arisen even if the vote had never happened, or had gone the other way, because the yishuv had in effect created the state already.
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Martin Kramer shows how Ari Shavit manipulates and distorts Israeli history; but Kramer has an agenda of his own.
