About three Israeli historians in the era of earthquakes

I will limit the discussion, in this approach to clarifying the picture of the situation in Israel, to a brief review of the positions and writings of three names of Israelis, and all three of them are historians: Benny Morris, Ilan Pappe, and Yuval Noah Harari, and all three of them are deeply involved in the fields of history, political action, and shaping public opinion in Israel. .
* Benny Morris: One of those who were known in Israel, in the early 1980s, as a group of “new historians” who began publishing their research (based on written documents in the Israeli archives, which were allowed to be declassified, and on the facts and testimonies that they were able to collect and document, in addition to To testimonies from those directly involved in these criminal events, and also from their victims) about the misdeeds and crimes of the racist Zionist movement and Israel. In his writings and research, Benny Morris remained keen to expose these Zionist/Israeli crimes until the year 2004, when he turned, following the second Palestinian Intifada, to become one of the most pathological Israelis inciting against the Palestinians and Arabs, and against Iran as well.
* Ilan Pappé: He is also one of the most prominent “new historians” in Israel, and the most productive and committed to his humane and rational positions.
* Yuval Noah Harari: The most prominent historian and professor of history in Israel, and the most widely known on the global level these days, since the publication of his first book in 2011. He has played the most prominent role in the movement and political conflicts that have ravaged Israeli society for a decade, in general, and since the formation of the current Netanyahu government. Extreme racism, and more so since the October 7th earthquake.
Some detail about the positions of these three Israeli historians shows the extent of unprecedented confusion in the Jewish community in Israel:
1- We start with Benny Morris, a graduate of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the University of Cambridge in Britain, and a professor of history at Ben Gurion University in Beersheba, from 2005 until now.
Benny Morris' name began to shine in 1988, when he published his book, "The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949," in which he denied the Israeli narrative about the birth of the refugee problem, based on documents in Israeli archives and testimonies of participants in military actions in those years. He also denied some of the narrative. Palestinian newspapers about this problem, and his book included documents about Zionist military operations, including stories of violence, rape, expulsion, and threats, as well as the migration of a small percentage of the 700,000 Palestinians with the advice and guidance of Palestinian and Arab leaders. His book included many documents and maps showing the locations of about 370 villages that were destroyed and their Palestinian residents displaced outside the 1949 armistice lines and to the Arab countries surrounding Palestine. Because of this, Benny Morris received sharp criticism from the Israeli establishment.
However, (and perhaps due to the events of the Second Palestinian Intifada) his position reversed 180 degrees, and the first indication of this reversal came in an interview in Haaretz newspaper (9/1/2004) in which he said, “Ben Gurion committed a major strategic mistake by not completing the transfer mission (displacing the Palestinians) in the year 1948". He added: "There is an impossibility to establish a pure State of Israel without expelling the Arabs from their cities and villages within the Green Line." He added that "establishing the Jewish state is a moral mission." He concluded by saying, "Arabs and Muslims are barbarians... and the individual's life in Islam is not as valuable as it is in the West."

Nuclear weapons and the hour of truth

Benny Morris did not stop in his coup from where it began. Since 2007, he has been speaking and writing about Israel approaching the “hour of truth” and the necessity of using nuclear weapons against Iran, to prevent it from producing a nuclear weapon. He said this at two seminars in Berlin and Vienna organized by a group calling itself “Stop the Bomb.”
Then he published an article in the New York Times, in July 2008, with this approach and conviction, and his last article was in Haaretz newspaper last Thursday, June 27, 2024, two weeks after Iran launched (from its territory) more than two hundred missiles and drones at Israeli targets, on the night of the 13th. Last June 14, a number of them arrived and hit Israeli sites and airports in the Negev, despite the objections of American (some of them from their bases in Jordan), British, French, and Israeli anti-aircraft missiles. The title of his article, which indicates its content, was: “We are at a decisive moment against Tehran, and Israel must think.” in the use of non-conventional weapons.
It may be useful, before moving to the next paragraph, to remind Benny Morris, and the racist political and military leaders in Israel, of two facts: 1 - The area of Iran (and area is one of the elements of a country’s permanent power) is equivalent to more than the area of Britain, France, Germany, and Spain combined, and is equivalent to 66 square feet. Twice the area of Palestine (from the river to the sea). 2 - The direct and immediate impact of “non-conventional weapons” that poor countries certainly possess, including Iran, such as bacterial and chemical weapons and others, the number of their human victims is no less than the number of victims of nuclear weapons, provided that the impact of these weapons is only immediate, and ends after hours. From its detonation, while the effect of atomic and nuclear weapons continues for many decades, and we recall, in this context, France’s refusal to provide Algeria with maps that specify the locations where France conducted its nuclear tests more than seventy years ago in the desert of southern Algeria, during the days when Algeria was, in the custom of racists, in France, "the extension of the territory of the French state along the southern coast of the Mediterranean Sea."

6 signs of the beginning of the end of the Zionist project

2- We reach the Israeli historian, socialist political activist, professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in Britain, and director of the European Center for Palestinian Studies at the university. Ilan Pappe, whom I last met about a year ago in the lecture hall of the Mahmoud Darwish Museum in Ramallah, in a symposium with our mutual friend, the Palestinian historian, Dr. Johnny Mansour (Haifa), lecturer in the Department of Historical Studies at the Academic College in Beit Berl. Ilan Pappé is one of the most prominent “new historians” in Israel. He is still fair in his positions, statements, and writings about Palestine and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Ilan Pappé's last announced activity was his giving a lecture in Haifa about four months after the October 7 earthquake, on January 14, 2024, on the subject of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, under the title: “The Beginning of the End of the Zionist Project,” and in it he identified six signs indicating that: They are: the internal conflict in Israel, the unprecedented global solidarity with the Palestinian people, the inclusion of Israel as an apartheid state, the deteriorating economic situation, the inability of the army to protect the Jews in the south (Gaza Strip) and the north (the Galilee border with Lebanon) and finally: the position of the new generations towards the Jews. And its rejection of Israeli policies and practices.

It is not too late to make peace

3- Finally, Yuval Noah Harari is a professor of history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His first and most famous book: “A Brief History of Humanity” was published in Hebrew in 2011, and was translated a few years ago into 52 languages (including Arabic, under the name “The Sapiens”). He also later published the book “A Brief History of the Future” and the book “21 Ideas for the 21st Century.” They say that he responded to the request of the former German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, to set a date to meet with him, so he set the date for 12 days later. Harari, the most prominent activist in the movement within the Jewish community in Israel against Israeli policies, especially during the era of the current racist Netanyahu government. He was the most prominent advocate and speaker in the latest mass activities in Israel last Monday, July 1, 2024, which was called for by 44 organizations and bodies, in a basketball stadium in Tel Aviv, and was attended by about 6,000 people, which is a rare thing in Israel these days, and Harari said in his speech “Each of the two sides (the Israeli and the Palestinian) believes that all of this space (from the river to the sea) is his only. And that the other people have no right to exist here. The attempt to exclude an entire people is pouring oil on the series of blood and terror.” "The situation is getting worse. It is not too late to fix this. War is not one of the laws of nature. It is a human choice. We can make a different choice. All wars have brought us to the abyss. It is time to give peace another chance."

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The attempt to absent an entire people is pouring oil on the series of blood and terror, and the situation is getting worse. It's not too late to fix this. War is not one of the laws of nature. It is a human choice to make a different choice and begin to make peace.