The Complete Idiot's Guide to Jerusalem (Complete Idiot's Guide to)

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Summary: This is not a travel guide !!
Review: Buying this book was a complete waste of money !

This book does not tell you anything about present day Jerusalem. It's all about the history of this city, and how jews and arabs live in fear because arabs are afraid the jews would demolish theire homes at anytime, and the jews are afraid of potential new bombings.

It doesn't contain ANY information about where you could stay, eat or even shop or go sightseeing ! it doesnt even include a single map, besides the fact that it is absolutely boring and full of mistakes.

Rating:
Summary: Send it back to the publisher for corrections
Review: Failed to meet reader expectations for accuracy!

On p. 268 the author states: "Christians had succeeded so well in making Jerusalem the heart of their religion that in the 1922 British census, they constituted 51 percent of the population."
Later on the same page he indicates that the percentage was 18 percent. The 18% figure is contradicted by the Jerusalem census figures that he gives on p. 60 where the real percentage (after calculating it from the population figures) is 9%.

Also on p. 268 the author quotes Riah Abu El Assal that since the Israeli annexation in 1967 that "the number of Christians dropped from 28,000 to 7,000." On p. 60 his census figures show that in 1967 the Christian population of Jerusalem was 12,646 and that in 1999+ it had grown to 20,000.

Either the technical editor was incompetent, or this was a clumsy insertion of Palestintian propaganda for the purpose of scoring a few propaganda points.

Rating:
Summary: Send it back to the publisher for corrections
Review: Failed to meet reader expectations for accuracy!

On p. 268 the author states: "Christians had succeeded so well in making Jerusalem the heart of their religion that in the 1922 British census, they constituted 51 percent of the population."
Later on the same page he indicates that the percentage was 18 percent. The 18% figure is contradicted by the Jerusalem census figures that he gives on p. 60 where the real percentage (after calculating it from the population figures) is 9%.

Also on p. 268 the author quotes Riah Abu El Assal that since the Israeli annexation in 1967 that "the number of Christians dropped from 28,000 to 7,000." On p. 60 his census figures show that in 1967 the Christian population of Jerusalem was 12,646 and that in 1999+ it had grown to 20,000.

Either the technical editor was incompetent, or this was a clumsy insertion of Palestintian propaganda for the purpose of scoring a few propaganda points.