NP - Peace? No chance

David Morris fqmorris at hotmail.com
Thu Feb 21 14:59:56 CST 2002


Benny Morris was the radical Israeli historian who forced his country to 
confront its role in the displacement of hundreds of thousands of 
Palestinians. Later he was jailed for refusing to do military service in the 
West Bank. But now he has changed his tune. As the cycle of violence in the 
Middle East intensifies, he launches a vicious attack on the 'inveterate 
liar' Yasser Arafat - and explains why he believes a peaceful coexistence is 
impossible

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,653594,00.html

Thursday February 21, 2002
The Guardian

The rumour that I have undergone a brain transplant is (as far as I can 
remember) unfounded - or at least premature. But my thinking about the 
current Middle East crisis and its protagonists has in fact radically 
changed during the past two years. I imagine that I feel a bit like one of 
those western fellow travellers rudely awakened by the trundle of Russian 
tanks crashing through Budapest in 1956.
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