 It didn't bring new documents but it expressed itself in memoirs, reminiscences and obituaries by or of those involved in the events.It was a view that was seldom heard in polemics giving two preceding versions of events but that had a life of its own, given to it by the immigrants.In the 1980s, a schism arose within the post-Zionism movement, and the history of the battle of Latrun came to represent the culpability of the Israeli state and a way of pointing out that it was born in the context of massacres and the exodus of the Palestinian population.