Abstract
Israeli historiography underwent a radical transformation in the 1980s. During the preceding decades, Israeli historians, journalists, and politicians vigorously and almost uniformly broadcast an official history, whose essence was that the Zionist movement, and the state it engendered, were incomparably just and moral; that the Zionist leaders were wise and humane (though also firm, when necessary); that Zionism throughout had sought an accommodation, based on live and let live, give and take, with the native Arab population of Palestine and with the surrounding Arab states; but that the Arab leaders, feudal and obscurantist all, had foiled every effort at compromise, singlemindedly seeking the destruction of the burgeoning Zionist entity. Britain, which had ruled Palestine until May 1948 and remained a major power in the
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