Okay, I had a hunch you were talking about Joan Peters, not Jane Peters. Joan Peters wrote a book called "Time Immemorial". It was commissioned by former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, in an attempt to propagate the idea that the Palestinians did not exist before the arrival of the Zionists in the late 1800s. Her fraudulant text was completely trashed by reviewers in England and Israel. Israelis simply laughed at it, regarding it as a rehash of long since discredited government propaganda from the 1950s. Curiously, was accorded a grand reception in the U.S. This demonstrates the contempt that Zionists have for their American audience, dumping stale old propaganda on us instead of offering us the newer and fresher material.
Norman Finkelstein did his Ph.D. thesis on this book, reading all of her primary sources. Here is the introductory comment which precedes his detailed refutation in his book "Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict":
<<< That a scholarly work meets with critical acclaim would hardly be news,
were it not for the fact that From Time Immemorial is among the most
spectacular frauds every published on the Arab-Israeli conflict. In a field
littered with crass propaganda, forgeries, and fakes, this is no mean
distinction. But Peters's book has thoroughly earned it.
The fraud in Peters's book is so pervasive and systematic that it is hard
to pluck out a single thread without getting entangled in the whole
unravelling fabric. To begin with, the fraud falls into two basic
categories. First, the evidence that Peters adduces to document massive
illegal Arab immigration into Palestine is almost entirely falsified. Second,
the conclusions that Peters draws from her demographic study of Palestine's
indigenous Arab population are not borne out by the data she presents. To
confound the reader further, Peters resorts to plagiarism. >>>
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Tom |
