I was listening to the radio one evening. A retired IDF officer was talking about how Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, had once asked him who killed Goliath. "Of course, David did," replied the IDF man. Ben-Gurion responded: "Read the Torah and you'll see that Elhanan was the one who killed Goliath." History, he added, attributes acts of heroism to persons who have power.
The original Morris
In historical perspective, the shadow cast by Morris' post-2004 declarations of contrition might be lost. Despite his own acts of recantation, history will remember the original Morris, and his courageous research.
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Oudeh Basharat


