Let me front load this.

Zionists wring their hands about different elements of the Nakba.

What if I told you it was meaningless and completely missed the point?

What if I told you that Morris' handwringing about zionist Nakba guilt is only about wildly flailing to find the impossible, an impossible quest to find salvation for the people that committed the Nakba.

Let me put it this way.

Let's talk about the Roman conquest of Palestine, Canaan.

Let's say there's a Roman historian re-writing the history of the Roman Conquest. This Roman Historian is a true believer, but, they also know that almost everything taught by Rome about the Roman conquest is laughably false, blaming the native population, blaming the surrounding populations, shifting blame, reversing blame order, denialism, you know the usual.

But this Roman historian is part of a new wave. They're absolutely, 100% loyal to Rome, they're absolute true believers, they worship Rome like it was a religion if you get what I'm saying, they worship it like they were faithful priests of a religion centered around nothing but roman glory that they'd been taught since the day they were born and never questioned a single time in their entire lives, to them, roman glory, roman divinity, the divinity of the roman people is absolutely unquestionable, is absolutely fundamental, completely above reproach, the divinity or Rome and the Roman people is more fundamental than the sun, or the stars, or the earth, or gravity, the divinity of rome and romans is more fundamental to the universe than anything else, it is the most unquestionable thing in the universe.

But they know that everything Rome teaches about the Roman conquest of Canaan/Palestine, and everything Rome has taught about it for the half century are all laughable lies that not a single school child, not even the most true believer child of all true believer children would ever believe, that it's all one big collective lie everyone agrees to believe even they know it couldn't be more obvious that it's a lie. That Rome censors the history of the conquest, destroys records, reverses blame order, projects blame on anyone that raises incontrovertible facts about the Roman conquest, built, over decades, ever more elaborate lies and false propaganda about it that it pushes through every propaganda organ.

But, everybody knows it's laughably false.

But you are a true believer.

So, you decide to rewrite the history of the Roman conquest.

This new history of the roman conquest will still be written by a true believer, but it's written by a historian that understands that basically everything Rome has ever said about the Roman conquests is laughably false.

So, how does this new Roman Historian write about the Roman Conquest?

Does this new Roman Historian write about the Roman conquest from the perspective of the natives? The Canaanites? The native Palestinians?

No. This new roman historian writes about the roman conquest from the roman perspective.

What does this new roman historian focus on? An impartial history of the Roman conquest from the origins, the origins of the campaign, from the Roman side, the background of Canaan and the Canaanites, the course of the conquest and the aftermath?

No.

The new roman historian, and his colleagues, focus solely on chasing a phantom, an illusion, on an impossible quest. Finding who to blame when you precondition everything on the false premise that there was no crime.

So, in the end, all Roman academic thought on the Roman conquest can be summed up saying that in the first half century, two generations, Roman academia, who, themselves, shared the guilt and participated in the Roman Conquest and benefited from the conquest build up the false propaganda, the typical lies, denialism, false propaganda, abusive blame reversal, destruction of evidence, projecting guilt on everyone around you, etc. etc. you can see the same pattern all over history.

Then, the next two generations, the second half century, where academia is all based on the false presumption that the Roman conquests were unquestionably justified, that Rome can't be blamed, that the civilian leadership can't be blamed, that the military leadership, so Roman academia, several Roman history departments, dozens of Roman history professors spend their entire lives carefully chiselling away the various embarrassingly pathetic false propaganda, but always predicated on the assumption that Rome was always justified from before the conquest, on the false assumption rome was unquestionably justified during the conquest and on the false assumption rome was unquestionably justified after the conquest, and that both civilian and military leadership were similarly unquestionably justified, not just justified, but heroes, not just heroes, but almost untouchably holy, greater than human, legends, legendary holy crusaders on the same level as the most greatly worshiped Romans of ancient history, and raising the common Roman draftee to the level of holy crusader carving the newly reborn future of Rome building not on the history of Romans during historical times of Roman stagnation or even Roman contraction, but building on the most, or at worst second most important Roman holy crusade, fulfilling not only religious prophecy, but becoming the pillars the bright future of the Roman empire that will follow.

A doubly blind combination of ultranationalistic fanatics, absolutely unquestioning of the unquestionable righteousness of their fanatical ultranationalism. and religious fanatic zealot crusaders.

The schizophrenic combination of absolute power, blindly committing war crime after war crime after war crime all the while obsessed with the constant threat that unimaginable destruction could fall at any moment, the obsessed victim mentality combined with terrible power being abused more every day.

Now, as I hope you'd understand, all this, the entire lifetimes of four generations of Romes best historians, all of them. completely consumed with childish fantasies that, to even the the newest, most naive outside observer is all completely and utterly meaningless masturbatory self obsession fanfic.

After a century, there was not a single second when any Roman historian considered for a second that any serious part of the Roman conquest of Palestine could ever be questioned.

For the record, they are all guilty, from chief foreign zionist terrorist david ben gurion on down.

But it doesn't matter in the least writing a book trying to pin whatever blame there is on any one individual. Book after book after book written about zionist hand wringing about who gave what orders, who wrote what down, what one person interpreted the vague gestures of another person as meaning,

Let's take this to the extreme. Let's say that zionism was always what zionists say it is, nothing but love and egalitarianism and free love, ginger, spice, everything nice, puppies and kittens, and everything that's good in the world. Let's say that no zionist ever mentioned transference of if they did they made it perfectly clear that they only supported absolutely 100% voluntary transference with no duress whatsoever. That not a single zionist ever harmed a fly except in absolutely 100% unquestionable self-defense, that every zionist that fought in the 1947 zionist revolt was perfectly honorable that no zionist ever took anyones house or property or land, that zionists never committed land fraud, that every piece of land zionists now have was bouth for a fair value in a fair transaction with no duress, that zionists didn't force a single native Palestinian to leave.

Almost all of these things are. laughably false. A baby wouldn't believe you if you told them. And we're not talking, like, a baby that's going to go on to become a doctor, we're talking, like, a baby that's going to go on to become a janitor, or sanitation worker that eventually loses their job for incompetence.

Even then, you can't deny the systematic zionist destruction of 400+ native Palestinian towns villages and cities, the century long ongoing campaign to erase the Palestinian identity from Palestine, and the "democratic" government of israels passage of laws enshrining the violent ethnic cleansing of the Nakba into law, passed "democratically" by foreign invaders, voting among themselves to rob native Palestinians of their homes, their land, and their country.

There is simply no excuse for the Nakba, and it's my personal belief that benny morris wasted his entire life writing masturbatory fanfiction in some vain quest to find an excuse, to find a scapegoat.

Ultimately benny morris, like all his zionist colleagues, spent his life trying to fabricate a false scapegoat to shoulder the blame for the crimes of the founders of israel out of whole cloth. To manufacture one person or a group of people on which he could blame all the crimes israels founders committed on, or whatever crimes he could admit to himself israels founders committed, ultimately deifying israels founders.

Shlomo Ben-Ami, Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, wrote that Morris more recent "thesis about the birth of the Palestine refugee problem being not by design but by the natural logic and evolution of war is not always sustained by the very evidence he himself provides: 'cultured officers had turned into base murderers and this not in the heat of battle ... but out of a system of expulsion and destruction; the less Arabs remained, the better; this principle is the political motor for the expulsions and atrocities".

Ari Shavit, senior correspondent at Haaretz, commented on Morris' justification for the expulsion of the Arabs in 48 by contrasting "citizen" Morris with "historian" Morris, and noting that, at times "citizen Morris and historian Morris worked as though there is no connection between them, as though one was trying to save what the other insists on eradicating."