Burying the Nakba: How Israel Systematically Hides Evidence of 1948 Expulsion of Arabs. Haaretz, 5 juli 2019 (premium)
"One of the most fascinating documents about the origin of the Palestinian refugee problem was written by an officer in Shai, the precursor to the Shin Bet security service ... Compiled in late June 1948, it was titled “The Emigration of the Arabs of Palestine.” This document was the basis for an article that Benny Morris published in 1986. After the article appeared, the document was removed from the archive and rendered inaccessible to researchers."
",... but I encountered it when I discovered that documents I had seen in the past are now sealed."
Israel’s Concealing of Nakba Documents Is Totalitarian. Benny Morris, Haaretz, 15 juli 2019.
"The foolishness of Malmab’s actions in concealing the incriminating material about the expulsions and massacres by members of the Haganah, Irgun, Lehi and IDF in 1948 is mind-boggling. The entire story has already been told since 1988"
"Malmab’s chiefs hoped or are hoping that their actions of blocking accessibility to the Israeli material will raise doubts about the work, conclusions and credibility of various scholars, myself included, for readers of their books and articles."
"In general, Malmab’s actions regarding the documents on 1948 and the following years (such as material on the expulsion of Bedouin from the Negev in the ‘50s) is a foolish and malicious act typical of totalitarian regimes."
The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948. Review door Matthew Hughes, Brunel University, 30 september 2001. pdf-versie
"She attacks the argument that Israel's expulsions of Palestinians were essentially random and based on local factors and the actions of subordinate IDF commanders ... For Parsons, the actions of the IDF in sparing the Druze show the grand design in an Israeli policy that would target one community perceived as a threat (the Palestinians) and leave alone another seen as a potential ally (the Druze) [...] she claims that Israeli historiography and perceptions of the Druze were consciously skewed to create a common past to prove a Jewish-Druze friendship."
The War of the Israeli Historians. Avi Shlaim, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, 1 december 2003.
Onderstaand citaat is een herhaling uit het artikel The Debate about 1948 uit 1995.
"The conventional Zionist account of the 1948 War goes roughly as follows [...] For many years the standard Zionist account of the causes, character, and course of the Arab-Israeli conflict remained largely unchallenged outside the Arab world. The fortieth anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel, however, was accompanied by the publication of four books by Israeli scholars who challenged the traditional historiography of the birth of the State of Israel and the first Arab-Israeli war ..."
The War of the Israeli Historians. Avi Shlaim, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, 1 december 2003.
Onderstaand citaat is een herhaling uit het artikel The Debate about 1948 uit 1995.
"The conventional Zionist account of the 1948 War goes roughly as follows [...] For many years the standard Zionist account of the causes, character, and course of the Arab-Israeli conflict remained largely unchallenged outside the Arab world. The fortieth anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel, however, was accompanied by the publication of four books by Israeli scholars who challenged the traditional historiography of the birth of the State of Israel and the first Arab-Israeli war ..."
