Exodus Decoded

was a result of the war and not a result of Israeli policy. Thus, as a defender of the old narrative, Teveth aims to discredit the main points of Morris’s new historical narrative. The notion that the original Zionists leaders had been planning the exodus of Arabs from Palestine was the first to be shot down by Teveth, which he writes that the 1948 war “formed a different Israel from the one intended by its founders. The latter had never imagined in their wildest thoughts that Israel would one…