2005/01/01 by Benny Morris · 15 citations
Social Sciences · #Ancient history #Archaeology #Art #Documentation #Event (particle physics) #Genealogy #Historiography #History #Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies #Law #Literature #Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts #Narrative #Political science
paper · doi:10.1080/13531040500040305
published in The Journal of Israeli History 24(1), 79-107 (Routledge)
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This article describes Israeli and Arab historiography concerning the events in the Arab village of Deir Yassin in April 1948, during the first Israeli–Arab war, of 1948. It begins with the internal, left–right Israeli controversy during 1969–71 about the alleged massacre and then describes and analyses what “really” happened at Deir Yassin on the basis of the Israeli (and, to a smaller extent, British) documentation from 1948 that has been declassified over the last few years. It then concludes by describing the evolution of the Israel and Palestinian histographical narratives on the event.