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This narrative of Bernadotte and his accomplishment has dealt with an enigma created by the dispute over his ulterior motives and complicated by his tragic death. But the entire UN effort to solve the Palestine problem between 1947 and 1949 is in the present historiography of Palestine somewhat out of place. This defect, we think, results from a deep schism and from some anachronisms from which that historiography, divided as it is into the pro-Arab and the pro-Zionist schools, suffers.
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See A. Ilan, ‘The prophecy of the Jewish state and its “fulfilment”, 1941–1949’, The Jerusalem Quarterly, no. 33, (Fall 1984).
See T.S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolution (Chicago, 1962). Philosophers of science, I hope, will bear with me for borrowing this concept. Obviously Kuhn referred to the proper sciences and not to history. But despite differences that concept is in my opinion relevant.
Frederick A. Hayek, ‘The results of human action but not of human design’, Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (London, 1967) and
C. Nishiyama & Kurt L. Leube, The Essence of Hayek (Stanford, 1984) passim.
Edward M. Glick, Latin America and the Palestine Problem (New York, 1958) particularly pp. 156–68.
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Ilan, A. (1989). Conclusion. In: Bernadotte in Palestine, 1948. St Antony’s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10427-7_12
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