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 '.

According to Avi Shlaim, " purity of arms " is one of the key features of ' the conventional Zionist account or old history ' whose ' popular-heroic-moralistic version of the 1948 war ' is ' taught in Israeli schools and used extensively in the quest for legitimacy abroad '.

According to Avi Shlaim,

According to Shlaim, as the verdict was announced, Shein and Zurabin stood up and shouted at the top of their voices: " Long live the Kingdom of Israel on both banks of the Jordan!

According to Avi Shlaim, in March 1949 as the Iraqi forces withdrew and handed over their positions to the Jordanian legion, Israel carried out Operation Shin-Tav-Shin which allowed Israel to renegotiate the cease fire line in the Wadi Ara area of the northern West Bank in a secret agreement that was incorporated into the General Armistice Agreement.