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...must not blind us to the fact that the war of independence was not a war waged by the Jews in Palestine against a helpless local Arab population. Israel's war of independence was a war for existence and the events of that war must be placed in that context. Current concerns with the plight of the Palestinian people must not lead to a misreading of the past...
Each one of these motives and incentives form a part of the picture. None of them is exclusively true. Every one of them was true in some context, in some place and at some time. The overriding fact is that the flight was the consequence of war, that it would not have taken place without the war. The Arab leaders who started the war cannot escape responsibility for its ensuing consequences...
Sackler Museum. Through Dec. 30. "American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts." The first major survey of Harvard University's art collections in over 20 years provides a critical examination of art and material culture drawn from Harvard's museums and libraries in the context of interdisciplinary studies and revisionist scholarship...
Once we acknowledge there are differing norms of participation for males and females, it becomes sheer fantasy to cite any breach of gender-proportionality as necessarily discrimination. It is absurd to focus on mathematical ratios, disregarding the cultural context in which sports are found...
Sackler Museum. Through Dec. 30. "American art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts." The first major survey of Harvard University's art collections in over 20 years provides a critical examination of art and material culture drawn from Harvard's museums and libraries in the context of interdisciplinary studies and revisionist scholarship...