The article by Ramachandra Guha published on October 19 (“Two writers whose thoughts on Palestine are worth recalling four decades later) discusses two books he is reading in which he finds “striking passages” that “bear on what could...be an enduring resolution of the conflict”.

Unfortunately, the passages he discusses have little to say about the destruction of Gaza, the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, or the possible contours of a resolution. Instead, they say more about what kind of perspectives Guha finds relevant while discussing the issue. One would expect a leading historian to educate his Indian readers, once having decided to write about Palestine, by drawing insights from specialist historians and analysts of the conflict such as Ilan Pappé, Avi Shlaim, Norm Finkelstein

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