An influential group of Israeli historians have argued for decades that the country was forged in violence – that the original displacement of 700,000 Palestinians was not an accident of chaos, but deliberate ethnic cleansing. This viewpoint deeply challenges Israel’s founding narrative as a desperate underdog seeking fairness and peace.
In this episode of Piers Morgan Uncensored, two opposing titans of historical and political debat – Simon Sebag Montefiore (author of ‘The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East’) and international relations scholar Avi Shlaim – discuss their opposing worldviews and how they continue to shape today’s conflicts, from the events of October 7th to the escalating war involving Iran.
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