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In article <4eU6CL600UhW85XWBJ@andrew.cmu.edu> David O Hunt <dh4j+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>>> moved into
>>>Palestine to help the Palestinians, Zionists forces has
>>>already diven about 1/2 million Palestinians out of their
>>>homes and captured areas which were allocated to the Arab
>>>state.
>> 
>>No, they hadn't, by and large.  I urge those interested to read the
>>following two sources (which contain rather diverse views):  Benny
>>Morris's The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem and Shabtai
>>Teveth's review of same in Middle Eastern Studies 26(2), April 1990,
>>pages 214-249.  Also, Morris replies to some earlier criticism from
>
>
>And I'd suggest reading _THE_EARLY_ISRAEL_ by Simcha Flappan, which has a
>differing view - one that the Israelis deliberately snubbed the arabs of the
>region during the process of becoming a nation.  They knew they could win a
>military conflict, and so intentionally took steps to get an arab attack, so
>they could conquer more land.

It should be mentioned that Flapan's book is hardly any better than
either Palumbo's or Quigley; he not only has an axe to grind, but most
of what he writes is not credible.  

Flapan is not a reliable source, not by any means.
-- 
"How sad to see/A model of decorum and tranquillity/become like any other sport
A battleground for rival ideologies to slug it out with glee." -Tim Rice,"Chess"
     Eric S. Perlman 				 <perlman@qso.colorado.edu> 
  Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, University of Colorado, Boulder