Summary
Israeli historian and journalist whose 1949: The First Israelis Manna credits with exposing the systematic repression of the Arabs who remained in Israel, and whose review of Elias Khoury’s Gate of the Sun Manna uses to attack the sanctity given to archival documents over victims’ testimony (Nakba and Survival, PDF p.38, 43-44).
Details
- Segev’s review of Gate of the Sun, titled ‘An Arab Story’ in Manna’s account, demanded proof of the alleged war crimes at Sha‘b and held that what Benny Morris wrote did not approach those atrocities (Nakba and Survival, PDF p.43).
- Manna quotes Segev’s conclusion that Khoury does not provide any kind of proof of what he alleges and is not a well-known author in Israel (Nakba and Survival, PDF p.44).
- Manna also quotes Segev elsewhere: “A state that conceals printed war crimes concerning its history is retroactively complicit in those crimes.” (Nakba and Survival, PDF p.44 / printed p.21; ‘printed’ as in the text copy).