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Vicki's avatar

Benny Morris!!!! Thrilled to read this and see you chiming in. I have relied on and learned so much from your work. 1948 and Righteous Victims especially. This sentence for me, encapsulates so much of the present dialogue: “The uninformed reader, as most of Coates’s American readers are, will, of course, be seduced into accepting the equation.” Millions of uninformed are purporting to be the moral arbiters and truth tellers everyday. It’s so maddening.

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Gabriel Noah Brahm's avatar

Touché, mon ami. The scurrilous propagandist, Coates, is, indeed, as awful as you say, as ignorant, tendentious, and mendacious on American history as he is on Israel. Race, race, race...bullshit. It cannot explain everything the way he says. ("Maybe he's colorblind," lol, that's a good one!) But anyway, whatever people want to believe about Coates when in comes to his own country, he certainly knows nothing of ours. That said, it kind of begs the question, what kind of a self-serving prima donna pronounces like he does on a reality that is, indeed, as "complex" as it gets, after a short, ten day visit typified by one of those deceptively calculated, brief little tours (I once got one too) of an unrepresentative part of the West Bank, obsessively marketed to naive visitors by the execrable Avner Gvaryahu. In short, well done. Good that you took on this infamous bs artist.

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