Efraim Karsh
Palestine Betrayed
Yale University Press

Professore di storia e Direttore del Dipartimento Studi mediterranei nel King’s College di Londra Efraim Karsh è un esperto di Medio Oriente e autore di saggi importanti. Nella sua ultima opera lo storico offre un’ eccellente analisi sia delle origini sia della storia del conflitto arabo israeliano: un saggio imperdibile per conoscere la verità sugli avvenimenti che portarono alla nascita dello Stato di Israele.

In order to recreate the events of 1948, Karsh attempts to give a full picture and cites a wide variety of source material. His basic thesis is that Palestine was betrayed by a variety of powerful Arab individuals and institutions. People like Haj Al Husseini, who spent WWII in Berlin as a special guest of the Nazis and prepared plans to bring the 'final solution' to Palestine, were not prepared to arrive at any type of negotiated settlement with the Jews.
This book is the antidote to revisionist historians whose narrative casts the Palestinians as passive players in the conflict with no responsibility for their actions. At the same time, Karsh's work demonstrates that Palestinian mythology continues to hinder all attempts at solving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Any person who wants to gain a full picture of the events of those times must read this book.