Even liberal historians frame Israeli domination as an unavoidable binary choice

Evidence

Benny Morris, Israel’s best-known revisionist historian, captures this logic perfectly: “When the choice is between destroying or being destroyed,” he insisted in clarification of his unstinting commitment to retaining Israeli domination, “it’s better to destroy.” If the legitimating logic is on one side of the bitter divide, the neutrality of Morris’s formulation suggests that the logic is not restrictable, as though these bifurcated choices are the only or best ones available. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 648