Moreover, if he was already engaged in expulsion, maybe he should have done a complete job. I know that this stuns the Arabs and the liberals and the politically correct types. But my feeling is that this place would be quieter and know less suffering if the matter had been resolved once and for all.
benny morris was once known as a new historian who challenged zionist myths, gaining recognition for uncovering evidence that around 700,000 palestinians were expelled in 1948 and that israeli forces committed massacres and rapes--acts he linked to ben guirion's implicit message of transfer. however, as baruch kimmerling points out, morris made a drastic ideological shift in 2004 interview, arguing that "under some circumstances explusion is not a war crimes" and that ben guiron's mistake was not expelling all the palestinians. kimmerling criticizes this reversal, noting morris's own earlier work showed the refugee crisis to be the root of the conflict