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According to Avi Shlaim, this condemnation of the use of violence is one of the key features of ' the conventional Zionist account or old history ' whose ' popular-heroic-moralistic version ' is ' taught in Israeli schools and used extensively in the quest for legitimacy abroad '.
Benny Morris adds that ' he Israelis ' collective memory of fighters characterized by " purity of arms " is also undermined by the evidence of dozen case of rapes committed in conquered towns and villages.
' According to him, ' after the 1948 war, the Israelis tended to hail the " purity of arms " of its militiamen and soldiers to contrast this with Arab barbarism, which on occasion expressed itself in the mutilation of captured Jewish corpses.
' According to him, ' this reinforced the Israelis ' positive self-image and helped them " sell " the new state abroad and (...) demonized the enemy '.

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