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• W247479504 abstract "Blaming the Israelis, Again by Martin Sherman The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War. By James L. Gelvin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 209 pp. $75 ($23.99, paper). Gelvin, professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of California, Los Angeles, has produced an account of the Israel-Palestine conflict which is appallingly shallow, shoddy, and slanted. The following excerpt epitomizes the book's blatant bias: when the Israelis attempted to organize the Palestinians of the occupied territories into collaborating village leagues in the early 1980s, the PLO could only react defensively, assassinating those who collaborated. This novel notion of assassination characterizes the overriding tenor that pervades Gelvin's portrayal of the conflict. For it stands to reason that if assassinations by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) are to be denoted defensive, they must be in response to an of some kind. Presumably then, the offensive that precipitated the defensive assassinations was Israel's attempt to find collaborating - or should that be cooperative - Palestinians with whom it might be possible to reach an agreed modus vivendi against the wishes of the PLO. In other words, Israel's attempt to enter into dialog with Palestinians other than the PLO constituted aggression that could only be met with defensive fratricide? This sums up Gelvin's approach to the conflict. Any Israeli measure, however peaceable, is objectionable, meriting censure or even sanction while any Palestinian measure, however brutal, is worthy of understanding, even support. This bias in Gelvin's presentation of events runs throughout his book. Typically, he glosses over the gruesome details of Palestinian terror and, in dwelling on the Israeli responses, he gives the impression that these responses were unprovoked acts of callous cynicism and cunning. Thus, in describing Ariel Sharon's decision to launch Operation Defensive Shield in 2002, Gelvin neglects to point out that this was preceded by a wave of murderous Palestinian terror, culminating in the horror of the Park Hotel Passover massacre. Was it ignorance, shoddy research, or purposeful design that caused him to omit any mention of the incident, which was a seminal event in shaping public consciousness in Israel and in precipitating the demand for tougher measures against the Palestinian terror? Gelvin leads the reader to believe that it was more the post-9/1 1 climate in Washington than Palestinian terror and the public mood in Israel that enabled Sharon to undertake the wide-ranging response against the terror organizations in the West Bank. The reader is thus left with the thinly disguised implication that the Bush administration's war on terror provided the opportunity for Sharon to unleash with glee the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on the Palestinians. This severely distorted version of events totally ignores the fact that for close to a year Sharon had resolutely refused to undertake any retaliatory measures against the Palestinians despite mounting public pressure to respond to continuing terror atrocities; he doggedly adhered to his policy of is strength. Then came the carnage at the Park Hotel in which thirty Jews were killed while attending a Passover meal, making further restraint untenable. Gelvin's bias is further exposed in his reference to the IDF operation in Jenin with a perfunctory acceptance of the initial - and subsequently discredited - characterization by the U.N. envoy of the aftermath of the fighting in Jenin as horrific beyond belief.1 Would it be too much to expect Gelvin to note that the now generally accepted figure of Palestinians killed in Jenin, around fifty, most of whom were armed combatants, is the same as the number of Israeli civilians killed in the two terror attacks - the Dolphinarium and the Park Hotel - that marked the beginning and end of the Sharon is strength policy? …" @default.
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