Essay Question: What were the causes of the Palestinian and the Arab States failure in the 1948 war and of the Israeli success in winning the war and establishing a state? In your answer also refer to the social and political aspects of the war while using these readings (week 2 on the course website): Anita Shapira. Israel: A History, pp.155-207; Benny Morris, “The New Historiography: Israel and its Past”; Rashild Khalidi, “The Palestinians and 1948: the underlying causes of failure”. Please use use in text citations or footnotes. Please Make sure there is no plagiarizing because this goes to turnitin.com Make Sure the paper has a Clear thesis which makes the reader clearly understand the argument of the essay. And each paragraph the qoutes are explained and relates back to the thesis