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Summary: An instructive book
Review: This is a rather tame book about the Arab war against Israel. But it does serve to show why many Arabs and Jews are at odds not only with each other, and not only with their compatriots, but also with many of the people from outside the region who purport to give them advice.Most of what is in the book is well-known history and would be unremarkable were it not for some incredible fabrications in books by people such as Shahak, Chomsky, Finkelstein, Pappe, Hirst, and Said. Probably the contamination of the international information supply with these ad hoc antizionist untruths is a more serious aspect of the Arab war against Israel than the actual terror and aggression. For that reason, a book such as this one is a good place to start to try to learn something about the problem.
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: This is the best book on the middle east crisis bar none. It is concise and factual and written from a completely impartial prospective. If you read nothing else on the Israeli/Arab conflict please read this book.
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Summary: A true contribution
Review: This work is a true contribution to the literature of the Middle East conflict. It argues that the Arabs have systematically inflated their nineteenth century numbers in the Holy Land. And that they have too denied the clear historical fact that the coming of large number of Jews back to their historical homeland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century encouraged and not discouraged Arab immigration. She too works if not to shatter then to at least seriously dent the myth that Jews did not suffer persecution, and lived in equality in Muslim lands.
This work may not solve the Arab- Israeli conflict but it makes a serious contribution to understanding how Arab distortions have aggravated the problem, and work still to prevent its equitable settlement.
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Summary: An Essential Book For Anyone Seeking The Whole Story
Review: Though Peters is ruthlessly partisan in her selection of source material, she raises incredibly important questions about the often overlooked issues of Arab in-migration during the British Mandate and rather than merely limiting the focus to just Palestinian refugees, she widens the view to all refugees in the twentieth century and demonstrates that for very political reasons the Arabs of Palestine who were refugees after the 1948 War of Independence were not handled in the same way that nearly every other group was, namely resettlement and assimilation. Her work has some flaws, to be sure, but nearly every book on this subject that attempts thoughtful analysis is going to suffer to some extent from the author's personal bias. What is remarkable is that she started the book very clearly on one side of the issue and, after her research, she had come a full 180 degrees to the opposite perspective. I rate it highly because it asks questions no one seems to be addressing and points out facts and observations that no one seems to be talking about....
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Summary: Is it legal to fabricate material and then publish lies?
Review: [...] Look them up on the internet and you'll find a scathing discription of the false documentation used for this book. This is Zionist propaganda to incite hatred and motive aimed at allowing further ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in Palestine. Shameful and repugnant book.
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