Title: Crude and Discredited Propaganda
Product review: Every serious scholar of the Middle East conflict regards the historical arguments made in this book a joke. Peters has been severely and systematically criticised for misuse of source materials and taking quotes out of context.Even Daniel Pipes (no enemy of Israel) has called it "an appallingly crafted book."However the book is interesting as an example of Zionist propaganda, mainly aimed at an American audience. It basically seeks to restate the (long discredited) idea that Palestine was essentially unpopulated when the first Jewish immigrants arrived in late 1800s, and that the Palestinian Arabs are almost all 'new arrivals' and immigrants from places like Egypt and Jordan.Worthless as history then, but interesting to see the sophistication and lengths some Zionists and their supports will go to in order to achieve and maintain American support for Israel.
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