Benny Morris's history of the conflict between the Zionist and Palestinian Arab national movements from 1881 to 2001, published by Vintage Books. Morris, an Israeli historian associated with the revisionist "New Historians," treats the conflict's core as a contest between two national movements over the same territory, tracing Zionism's substantially secular nationalist origins and the Palestinian national movement's own predominantly secular and, in part, Christian as well as Muslim early leadership, and his own research reconstructed, village by village, the scale of Palestinian displacement in the 1947 to 1949 war. Its strength is extensive use of Israeli archival sources across the conflict's full span. Its limit is that its documentary base is stronger on the Israeli and Zionist side of the record than on Arab and Palestinian sources, a limitation Morris himself has acknowledged.
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A named Israeli historian's widely cited archival history of the conflict, standard in the field, though its documentary base draws more heavily on Israeli than on Arab and Palestinian archival sources, a limitation the author has himself acknowledged. NotesCited for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict's founding date, principal parties, 1948 displacement figures, and the nationalist-core reading of the conflict this atlas states as its basic structure.
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AuthorBenny Morris
PublisherVintage Books
Publication Year2001
Source Typeacademic monograph
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This source backs 29 claims across the atlas. As facts: 20 well-attested, 3 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 3 holds, 1 connected. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Wars & Conflicts, 13 claims: 7 well-attested, 3 scholarly debate, 2 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
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