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Review title: Error by ommission
Product review: Feilor writes a readable travelogue but manages to travel through the middle east drawing historical conclusions but (conveniently?) ignores most of the Arab cultural contributions made in a packed couple of millenia. Most of the Arabs who appear in the book are "extras", typically presented as ignorant laborers, or obnoxious children. In the light of the Israelis' aggressive and violent encroachments onto Palestinian territories on the West Bank, this viewpoint serves only to foster the myth that the current and recent historical occupants of this area are "non-people". Feilor, however, does not come across as mean-spirited: only callow. Don't read this book for insights into Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, or Egypt: go ahead if you want to better understand Israel's perceptual difficulties.
