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Readers should be aware of the polemical nature of this work. It is a pit-bull attack on pioneering studies on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict authored by the eminent Harvard legal scholar Prof. Alan Dershowitz and by the trail-blazing journalist Joan Peters. The author is furious that they exposed the mythical contents of the Palestinian Arab narrative of the conflict, especially Peters' documentary evidence that the Palestinians are not the indigenous inhabitants of Palestine but the Jews are.
This reviewer counted 319 errors of fact, 226 statements of opinion without substantiation and 39 spelling mistakes in this book. It is quite a chutzpah for the author to expect readers to put up with this kind of shoddy writing.
Take this gem: our author tells us there are no other occupations in the world except for that of Israel's. A junior high school student, like my son, can readily refute this claim. India occupies Kashmir, Russia occupies Chechnya, Turkey occupies northern Cyprus, China occupies Tibet, Morocco occupies the western Sahara, Ethiopia occupies Somalia and Eritrea, Georgia occupies southern Ossetia and Abkhazia, Spain occupies Catalonia, France occupies Corsica, the United States occupies Puerto Rico, Azerbaijan occupies part of Armenia, Indonesia occupies Aceh, etc.
Again, another whopper. The author claims Israel is the only country in the world where torture is legally sanctioned. Not true. But it is true in the USA, Egypt, Mexico, Turkey, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Palestine Authority, Syria, Libya, Iran, North Korea, Rwanda, Venezuela, Cuba, Vietnam, Pakistan, China, Russia, Serbia, Zimbabwe and 41 other countries.
And so it goes with the rest of the book, one boring propaganda lie after another.
It is truly appalling that the University of California Press published this horrible tripe by a Judeophobic Marxist ex-professor.
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Beyond Chutzpah-updated ((Rev)08 Edition) by Ginkelstein
clyde strombopoulos, November 16, 2008
Hysterical Propaganda and Errors GaloreReaders should be aware of the polemical nature of this work. It is a pit-bull attack on pioneering studies on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict authored by the eminent Harvard legal scholar Prof. Alan Dershowitz and by the trail-blazing journalist Joan Peters. The author is furious that they exposed the mythical contents of the Palestinian Arab narrative of the conflict, especially Peters' documentary evidence that the Palestinians are not the indigenous inhabitants of Palestine but the Jews are.
This reviewer counted 319 errors of fact, 226 statements of opinion without substantiation and 39 spelling mistakes in this book. It is quite a chutzpah for the author to expect readers to put up with this kind of shoddy writing.
Take this gem: our author tells us there are no other occupations in the world except for that of Israel's. A junior high school student, like my son, can readily refute this claim. India occupies Kashmir, Russia occupies Chechnya, Turkey occupies northern Cyprus, China occupies Tibet, Morocco occupies the western Sahara, Ethiopia occupies Somalia and Eritrea, Georgia occupies southern Ossetia and Abkhazia, Spain occupies Catalonia, France occupies Corsica, the United States occupies Puerto Rico, Azerbaijan occupies part of Armenia, Indonesia occupies Aceh, etc.
Again, another whopper. The author claims Israel is the only country in the world where torture is legally sanctioned. Not true. But it is true in the USA, Egypt, Mexico, Turkey, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Palestine Authority, Syria, Libya, Iran, North Korea, Rwanda, Venezuela, Cuba, Vietnam, Pakistan, China, Russia, Serbia, Zimbabwe and 41 other countries.
And so it goes with the rest of the book, one boring propaganda lie after another.
It is truly appalling that the University of California Press published this horrible tripe by a Judeophobic Marxist ex-professor.
(2 of 7 readers found this comment helpful)