Professor
Efraim Karsh is infamous for his defense of Zionism at any cost. This time, he
takes historian and Haaretz journalist Tom Segev to task for accusing
Ben-Gurion as "destroyer of Palestinian-Arab society."
Segev
belongs to Israel's "New Historians," which are called by Karsh as "revisionists." This term
is derogatory. But in the Israeli context, the demystification of Zionism is
long overdue. "Israel was born in sin," as the new historians call
it. It's the deliberate and aggressive dispossession of the Palestinian People.
Karsh tries everything to thwart this truth; at the same time, he accuses Segev
and other new historians of skewing the truth.
From the
outset, expulsion, and transfer of the indigenous population were at the top of
the Zionist political agenda. Proponents were Herzl, Ben-Gurion, Zeev
Jabotinsky; you name only a few. Karsh tries to whitewash not only Ben-Gurion
but also Theodor Herzl, the driving force of Zionism. Karsh blurs Herzl's real
intention in attempting to show Herzl's disinterest in the Palestinians.
However, Herzl advised his Zionist followers in the typical hypocritical
liberal Zionist manner: To "try to
spirit the penniless [Palestinian] population across the border by denying it
any employment in our own country … Both the process of expropriation and the
removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.”
Separation or transfer was Herzl's solution to the Palestinian
"problem." Delinking meant, no Jewish employer should hire a Palestinian.
Transfer said, to kick them out of their homeland "gently."
Tom Segev
has taken off the hypocritical mask of David Ben-Gurion, which is typical for
so-called liberal Zionists like Yitzhak Laor pointed out. Efraim Karsh is a Zionist purist
and infamous for bawling out critics of Zionist doctrine. To whitewash, the
Zionist commanders don't hold water, knowing Yitzhak Rabin's legacy and
Ben-Gurion's "famous" gesture, meaning, expel them from Lydda and
Ramle.
Efraim
Karsh is famous for twisting the Palestinian legacy. To end the Palestine
conflict, the Palestinians have to give up their "genocidal hopes" as
Karsh put it. Wouldn't it be more realistic if Israel would give up its
genocide of the Palestinian People?
