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Massacre at Lydda?
“In thirty minutes, at high noon, more than 200 civilians are killed. Zionism carries out a massacre in the city of Lydda.” That lapel-grabber, from Ari Shavit’s bestselling My Promised Land: The...
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Departure from Lydda
The first response to my essay on Ari Shavit’s Lydda “massacre” claim has appeared over at Mosaic Magazine. It’s by Efraim Karsh, who not only seconds my doubts about the “massacre,” but questions...
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From Lydda to Gaza
“Disproportion speaks massacre, not ‘battle.'” Who wrote that just last week about Israel’s conduct vis-à-vis the Palestinians? I won’t keep you in suspense. It was Israeli historian Benny Morris,...
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Lydda, 1948: They were there
This post first appeared at the Commentary blog on December 24, and again in the English-language opinion section of Israel Hayom on December 25. Most Israelis know nothing about Ari Shavit’s...
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Génocidaires of the Palmah
This post first appeared at the Commentary blog on February 23, and again in the English-language opinion section of Israel Hayom on February 24. Ari Shavit’s chapter on Lydda, in his bestselling book...
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Netanyahu and Churchill: analogy and error
This post first appeared at the Commentary blog on March 7, and again in the English-language opinion section of Israel Hayom on March 8. The Churchill analogies flew fast and furious around Israeli...
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Grist for Israel’s defamers
This post first appeared at the Commentary blog on July 30. For those who have followed the discussion of my essay on the documentary film Censored Voices, I bring your attention to my “last word” on...
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What Happened at Lydda
This essay and the subsequent exchange with Benny Morris appeared in the July 2014 edition of Mosaic Magazine. In his celebrated new book, Ari Shavit claims that “Zionism” committed a massacre in July...
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