Benny Morris Justifies Israel's Coming Attack on Iran
The Huffington Post / David Bromwich
21-Jul-2008 (7 comments)

On Friday July 18 the New York Times published an op-ed by the Israeli historian Benny Morris. It is entitled "Using Bombs to Stave Off War." Morris chose this American venue to announce that Israel would "almost surely" attack Iran some time in the next few months. And he indicated that America would be well advised to support the attack.

The reputation of Benny Morris is founded on unquestioned scholarly achievement and a far more dubious political stance. As one of Israel's "new historians," he recovered the record of harassment, murder, and expulsion of the Palestinians in the war of independence -- a finding that largely discredits the Israeli myth that the inhabitants fled from their own timidity, or because they were told to flee by Arab governments.

But speaking as an Israeli citizen, more recently, Morris has declared his view that the mistake of Ben-Gurion and the leadership of 1948 was that they did not carry the expulsion of the Palestinians all the way. Morris sees Israel in 2008 as a state under perpetual siege and the focus of a clash of civilizations; he sees Palestinians -- and to a degree, all Arabs; and Iranians, too -- as a species of animals not yet inducted into full humanity. Thus in a >>>

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This could be quite real.....

by Immortal Guard (not verified) on Mon Jul 21, 2008 05:06 PM PDT

This could be quite real since Israel's tolerance for the realization of any existential threat is very very low. One cannot dismiss it as just psychological warfare. But I doubt their attack will meet their success criteria. It will just create a more uncertain future for them.


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What is even more astonishing

by Anonymous-today (not verified) on Mon Jul 21, 2008 02:21 PM PDT

than the ravings of this genocidal maniac, Benny Morris, is that it's printed as an op-ed by that so-called stalwart of American journalism, the New York Times. Will Morris next be invited to give a talk at Columbia to rousing cheers from its President?


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It's incredible that he's

by sadegh on Mon Jul 21, 2008 01:55 PM PDT

It's incredible that he's one of the leading Israeli and world scholars on the Arab-Israeli conflict, and yet at the same time such a bigoted racist ignoramus...

Ba Arezu-ye Movafaghiat, Sadegh

 


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farokh2000

What a clown!?

by farokh2000 on Mon Jul 21, 2008 01:36 PM PDT

It is very hard to believe these kinds of "humans" are actually walking around in this day and age.

What a moron.


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Persian freed jews then jews nuke persians

by no_name (not verified) on Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:22 PM PDT

You got to love the irony in all these. I wonder if Cyrus was that great after all. He freed them gave them money to build their temples in Jerusalem. Makes you wonder if he had not done that, if there would have been an Israel now.

I guess the same could be said about their relationship with USA. America helped jews from Hitler and now they are going to run it to the ground. Now we know why they've have always been a nomad.


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Jews are good in business, but

by Wanderer (not verified) on Mon Jul 21, 2008 10:41 AM PDT

Not good leaders of government. During their history, they have tried running a Jewish state twice and both times has ended it up in disaster. It is no different this time. I am sure; eventually it will collapse. Bad KARMA will catch up with them. The last person who was going to teach Iran a lesson was dangling at the end of the rope a year ago.


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Abarmard

I think most of the Israeli

by Abarmard on Mon Jul 21, 2008 09:49 AM PDT

Politicians or political "thinkers" should try to get a job at what they are good at, comedy.

I can't stop laughing when I hear these people speak. They are just too funny.


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