Another Brief Thought on Pappe

Something I meant to include in last post about the lecture below:
(I have to first admit this afterthought was inspired by comments from my professor/mentor in class this morning. While I have been a teacher to many, classes and lectures like the one this morning just reaffirm my understanding that there are some people to whom I will always be a student, no matter what degree or title I attain. It may have taken me a while to learn this, but I will certainly never forget it.)
While it is important to create a drastic paradigm shift on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and an elimination of the "paradigm of parity" of blame within the conflict, I do think this has to be measured. The Palestinians are not without blame. Obviously some of their methods of resistance have been more than unsavory and 'illegitimate,' they've had their own periods of intransigence, and the Palestinian Arab leadership has let down its people time and after time. Some of the responsibilities are most certainly shared. A statement like this reflects the absence of the Palestinians in some of Pappe's work. Not that he denies them historical agency; I don't think he would do such a thing. But that's not necessarily the emphasis of his work. But I did mention this problem in his work in my paper "The Ongoing Debate in the Israeli Historiography of 1948 and the Palestinian Expulsion":
"Almost entirely absent from The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, including the six-page timeline summary in the book, is any substantial details or recognition concerning Arab aggression or the Arab revolt in Palestine. The book’s only apparent goal is to detail Zionist aggression against the Arab population. The very lack of any indication of Arab aggression is an omission that paints a starkly different picture than what the general historiography provides us and is central to the alternative narrative by Pappe."