Abstract
Writing about Zionist and Israeli history will never be the same, thanks to scholars such as Avi Shlaim, Benny Morris, and Ilan Pappe. In the late 1980s, their publications sparked a lively debate among Israeli historians and intellectuals that has now spread beyond the halls of academe. Soon dubbed the new historians, Shlaim (in Collusion Across the Jordan), Morris (in The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949), and Pappe (in Britain and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948-51)1 portrayed Israel's founding fathers as less than heroic and the state's very foundation as something other than a miraculous victory of beleaguered underdogs. It was not long before Shabtai Teveth, Ben-Gurion's official biographer, and others mounted a counterattack against these revisionist historians in a battle that spilled over from academic journals and
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