Uri Milstein - Views and Opinions

Views and Opinions

Milstein was one of the first academics to openly criticize the Israeli defense establishment. He is described as being too extreme in his conclusions, but his "contribution to the knowledge is enormous and he is willing to suffer his devotion to the truth."

In The Blood Libel of Dir Yassin – The Black Book, he claims that the Deir Yassin massacre was a myth created by the Israeli left to prevent the Irgun from forming an independent unit inside the IDF and keep Menahem Begin out of the first national unity government under David Ben-Gurion.

Milstein is a supporter of the thesis that the Soviet Union intended to assault Germany in 1941.

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