Roger Simon links to a remarkable interview with Benny Morris. If you’re not familiar with the name, Morris is a leading Israeli historian, who’s made a career out of documenting the more sordid side of Israel’s past, and as such is much cited by the likes of Chomsky. Of course one of the key issues in the foundation of the state of Israel is whether the Palestinians left voluntarily or were pushed out, and Morris probably knows more about this than anyone. It turns out he’s got a new book coming out detailing further outrages, including rape. But that’s not why the interview is so interesting, and indeed both surprising and moving as well.
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A remarkable man Mr. Morris. Few of us can accept to that degree that evil is perpetrated by all sides, that the outcome is not the result of some neat moral calculus and that the results may be tragic for all parties – all the while explicitly rejecting the comforts of moral realitivism and political correctness. I don’t know if I agree with him because I don’t know his country or his subject, but I recognise a kindred spirit.
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