Benny Morris Bücher

In seiner Monografie „1948. Der erste arabisch-israelische Krieg“ beleuchtet Benny Morris die Hintergründe und Ereignisse, die zum Ende des Britischen Mandats in Palästina, zur Zersplitterung der arabisch-palästinensischen Gesellschaft und schließlich zur Geburt des Staates Israel führten. Im Fokus der Betrachtung steht dabei die unmittelbare Reaktion auf die Staatsgründung: der panarabische Angriffskrieg. Morris‘ akribische Auswertung der seit den 1980er Jahren zugänglichen israelischen und internationalen Archive ermöglicht einen klaren, dokumentarischen Blick auf die vielfach mythologisierte Geschichte des Krieges von 1948 und seine politischen wie militärischen Akteure. Gegen die mithin geschichtsvergessenen und ressentimentgeladenen Debatten um Israel und Palästina, um Zionismus und Vertreibung liefert dieses erstmals in deutscher Sprache erscheinende Buch somit die dringend benötigte historische Aufklärung.

A New York Times Notable BookAt a time when the Middle East has come closer to achieving peace than ever before, eminent Israeli historian Benny Morris explodes the myths cherished by both sides to present an epic history of Zionist-Arab relations over the past 120 years.Tracing the roots of political Zionism back to the pogroms of Russia and the Dreyfus Affair, Morris describes the gradual influx of Jewish settlers into Palestine and the impact they had on the Arab population. Following the Holocaust, the first Arab-Israeli war of 1948 resulted in the establishment of the State of Israel, but it also shattered Palestinian Arab society and gave rise to a massive refugee problem. Morris offers distinctive accounts of each of the subsequent Israeli-Arab wars and details the sporadic peace efforts in between, culminating in the peace process initiated by the Rabin Government. In a new afterword to the Vintage edition, he examines Ehud Barak’s leadership, the death of President Assad of Syria, and Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon, and the recent renewed conflict with the Palestinians. Studded with illuminating portraits of the major protagonists, Righteous Victims provides an authoritative record of the middle east and its continuing struggle toward peace.

This history of the foundational war in the Arab-Israeli conflict gives an account of both the military engagements and the war's political dimension. The author probes the motives and aims of the protagonists on the basis of newly opened Israeli and Western documentation.

Focusing on the critical years from 1949 to 1956, this study examines the complexities of Israel-Arab relations, particularly the impact of Arab infiltration and Israeli responses. It highlights the significance of Palestinian refugee raids and cross-border attacks by Egyptian forces, which contributed to Israel's 1956 invasion of Egypt. Enhanced by recently declassified materials from the IDF, this revised edition offers valuable insights into the historical context and ongoing implications for peace in the Middle East.

These essays, three of which appear for the first time, examine and elucidate aspects of the Arab exodus from Palestine in 1948, focusing on Israeli decision-making and the causes of the mass exile.

From 1894 to 1924 three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region's Christian minorities. Benny Morris and Dror Ze'evi's impeccably researched account is the first to show that the three were actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia's Christian population and create a pure Muslim nation.

This book explores the realities behind the Palestinian exodus of 1948 during the Arab-Israeli war. číst celé

A revealing biography of Sidney Reilly, the early twentieth-century virtuoso of espionage

“What is so striking about Morris’s work as a historian is that it does not flatter anyone’s prejudices, least of all his own,” David Remnick remarked in a New Yorker article that coincided with the publication of Benny Morris’s 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War. With the same commitment to objectivity that has consistently characterized his approach, Morris now turns his attention to the present-day legacy of the events of 1948 and the concrete options for the future of Palestine and Israel. The book scrutinizes the history of the goals of the Palestinian national movement and the Zionist movement, then considers the various one- and two-state proposals made by different streams within the two movements. It also looks at the willingness or unwillingness of each movement to find an accommodation based on compromise. Morris assesses the viability and practicality of proposed solutions in the light of complicated and acrimonious realities. Throughout his groundbreaking career, Morris has reshaped understanding of the Israeli-Arab conflict. Here, once again, he arrives at a new way of thinking about the discord, injecting a ray of hope in a region where it is most sorely needed.