Myths and Historiography of the 1948 Palestine War Revisited
The Case of Lydda
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10278543 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alon Kadish (corresponding author), Avraham Sela |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 617-634 |
| Publication date | 2005-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Middle East Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-3141 • E-ISSN: 1940-3461 |
| Publisher | The Middle East Journal (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3751/59.4.15 |
| OpenAlex | W200458724 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Arab and Israeli revisionist historiography has taken the events in the town of Lydda (Lod, al-Lud) during the 1948 Palestine War (Israeli War of Independence) as an example of Israel's premeditated expulsion of the Palestinian Arabs in 1948, coupled with a massacre of civilian Arabs by the Israeli forces. Using newly released documents, the article explains the origins of these claims. It concludes that the expulsion was not pre-meditated but a consequence of a complex and ill-conducted battle, nor is there any direct evidence that a massacre took place
Ancient history · Battle · Historiography · Independence (probability theory · Mandatory Palestine · Mythology · Palestine · Political science · Spanish Civil War · War of independence · Archaeological Research and Protection · Classics · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |