ARTS & LEISURE Questioning Israel Israel's "new historians" are reconsidering their nation's moral superiority in its past relations with Arabs; Ethan Bronner reviews Avi Shlaim's "Iron Wall" and Benny Morris's "Righteous Victims."

Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001.

Furthermore, in his comprehensive book on the Arab-Israeli conflict, Righteous Victims, Morris wrote:

By contrast, in "Righteous Victims" Benny Morris writes with clinical dispassion.

Righteous Victims.

His new book, "Righteous Victims," will examine Jewish designs on the land.

Morris, B. (1999) Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999, Alfred A. Knopf.

Morris, Benny (2001) Righteous Victims New York, Vintage Books.

Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001, by Benny Morris (Vintage, $18), is a dispassionate work by an Israeli historian that begins with the arrival of the first Zionists in 1881 and analyzes the misunderstandings and cultural rifts that have plagued both sides ever since.