Benny Morris's book Righteous Victims seems to be a reliable source of information about the conflict. He's a an Israeli history professor, not exactly a virul

Benny Morris's book Righteous Victims seems to be a reliable source of information about the conflict. He's a an Israeli history professor, not exactly a virulent antisemite. It's worth noting that he describes the trigger for unrest leading up to the 1929 massacre as the growing understanding among Arabs that "...the disproportionate growth of the [Jewish community in Palestine], nurtured and sustained by [British colonial] measures, promised to turn them into a minority in their own land."[1] Anyway, bringing up the 1929 massacre in this context seems like a non sequitur. You might as well justify the second Arab-Israeli war in terms of the massacre innocent Palestinians by Israeli militants at Deir Yassin[2], a considerably more cold-blooded, treacherous, strategically terrifying, blatant war crime that played a critical role in driving Palestinians off their own lands. (But I'm not making this justification.) [1] http://books.google.com/books?id=M7tr9_rCwD0C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA111 http://books.google.com/books?id=M7tr9_rCwD0C&lpg=PP1&#3... [2] http://books.google.com/books?id=M7tr9_rCwD0C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA207 http://books.google.com/books?id=M7tr9_rCwD0C&lpg=PP1&#3...