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From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab–Jewish Conflict over Palestine is a book by Joan Peters about the demographics of the Arab population of Palestine and of the Jewish population of the Arab world before and after the formation of the State of Israel. Shortly after its release in , “From Time Immemorial†became a best seller in the US and in Britain and received various awards. The book is a must for everyone who cares about human rights and historic truth and wants to understand the facts from a scientific and fact-based point of view. From Time Immemorial contains a wealth of information, which is well worth the effort to uncover. Making use of work done by Kemal Karpat in the Ottoman records, Miss Peters ascertains the non-Jewish population in of the area that would later form Palestine under the British Mandate.
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According to Peters, most people who call themselves Palestinians are not actually Palestinians, but instead descendants of recent from time immemorial pdf download from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Syria, who came to the land in waves of immigration starting in the 19th century and continuing through the period of the British Mandate.
She argues that what is referred to as the Palestinian exodus was not ethnic cleansing, but actually a population exchange that resulted from the Arab—Israeli War. When the book was published, it was initially acclaimed by mainstream reviewers, such as Barbara W.
Finkelstein noted that many of the statistics Peters cited were in Turkish, a language that Peters could not read. Finkelstein also mocked as a racist absurdity Peters's argument that, because Palestinians ranged so much in skin tone, from fair skinned to dark brown skinned, that they could not be descended from the same land.
Various reviewers from across the political spectrum subsequently endorsed Finkelstein's findings that Peters's statistical analysis was faulty, and by the time the book was released in Britain, the book was widely regarded as wrongheaded at best and a fraud at worst, including by historians that were politically conservative or supportive of Israel.
Ian Gilmoura former British Secretary of State for Defencefrom time immemorial pdf download, ridiculed the book as "pretentious and preposterous" and argued that Peters had repeatedly misrepresented demographic statistics, [2] while Israeli historian Yehoshua Porath called it "sheer forgery. The author's linguistic and scholarly abilities are open to question. In short, From Time Immemorial stands out as an appallingly crafted book.
Though the book is largely regarded as discredited in academic circles, it has had a politically significant legacy. Its central thesis, that Palestinians are not actually indigenous to the land, but the descendants of Arab immigrants from surrounding countries, is a popular trope in contemporary Israeli politics.
On its release in the US the book received widespread critical acclaim. Theodore H. White called Peters' work a "superlative book" that traces Middle East history with "unmatched skill". Saul Bellow 's endorsement on the cover of the book stated:. Every political issue claiming the attention of a world public has its "experts"—news managers, anchor men, ax grinders, and anglers.
The great merit of this book is to demonstrate that, on the Palestinian issue, these experts speak from utter ignorance. Millions of people the world over, smothered by false history and propaganda, will be grateful for this clear account of the origins of the Palestinians. From Time Immemorial does not grudge these unhappy people their rights.
It does, however, dissolve the claims made by nationalist agitators and correct the false history by which these unfortunate Arabs are imposed upon and exploited. The book was also praised by Arthur J. Goldberg and Martin Peretz who said: "If the book is read, from time immemorial pdf download will change the mind of our generation. Jehuda Reinharz described the book as "valuable synthesis" and "new analysis" that "convincingly demonstrates that many of those who today call themselves Palestinian refugees are former immigrants or children of such immigrants".
Ronald Sanders wrote that Peters' demographics "could change the entire Arab—Jewish polemic over Palestine". Timothy Foote acclaimed that the book is "part historic primer, part polemic, part revelation, and a remarkable document in itself".
Lucy Dawidowicz wrote that Peters "brought into the light the historical truth about the Mideast". Barbara Probst Solomon called the book "brilliant, provocative and enlightened". Elie Wiesel described the "insight and analysis" of the book.
Similar views were expressed by, Paul Cowan and others. Some reviewers, while describing the book in favourable terms, did point to certain deficiencies in Peters' scholarship. Martin Kramer in The New Leader May wrote that the book raises overdue questions about the demographic history of Palestine in a way that cannot be ignored, but also referred to "serious weaknesses" in the book, and Peters' "rummaging through archives and far more balanced historical studies than her own for whatever evidence she can find to back up her thesis".
He goes on to say that "It is specially unfortunate because on the central point of her book, the demographic argument, Peters is probably right. As a result, the book suffers from chaotic presentation and an excess of partisanship", and said that critics of her hypothesis should feel obliged to 'make a serious effort to show her wrong by demonstrating that many thousands of Arabs did not emigrate to Palestine in the period under question.
Two years later, Pipes modified his views in a letter to The New York Timesafter several academic reviews had shown the technical deficiencies of her book. In it, he maintained that Peters' central thesis, of large-scale Arab immigration into Palestine, had still not been refuted, although:.
From Time Immemorial quotes carelessly, from time immemorial pdf download, uses statistics sloppily, and ignores inconvenient facts. Much of the book is irrelevant to Miss Peters's central thesis. Excessive use of quotation marks, eccentric footnotes, and a polemical, somewhat hysterical undertone mar the book.
Initially the book received very few unfavorable reviews. Norman Finkelstein wrote that Peters' book was 'among the most spectacular frauds ever published on the Arab-Israeli conflict,' [17] arguing that its substance was based on extensive plagiarization of a work by Ernst Frankenstein published in the s. Finkelstein went from time immemorial pdf download a close examination of all of Peters' notes and sources, and argued that her work persistently misrepresented or distorted the primary documents.
His systematic critique of the book, from time immemorial pdf download, attacking the two major pillars of Peters' thesis, which he regarded as a 'threadbare hoax' supported by the 'American intellectual from time immemorial pdf download, had a major impact of later reviews of the book, especially those in Great Britain, from time immemorial pdf download.
Firstly, in a number of lists, tables and examples Finkelstein juxtaposes the historical evidence Peters presents with extended quotations of the primary and secondary source material showing its original context.
By doing so Finkelstein argues that the "evidence that Peters adduces to document massive illegal Arab immigration into Palestine is almost entirely falsified, from time immemorial pdf download. The actual Hope Simpson Report passage says "[In Palestine] Egyptian labor is being employed in certain individual cases Secondly, from time immemorial pdf download, in a detailed analysis of the demographic study central to Peters' book, Finkelstein argued that Peters' conclusions are not supported by the data she presents.
Finkelstein asserts that the study "is marred by serious flaws: 1 several extremely significant calculations are wrong; and 2 numbers are used selectively to support otherwise baseless conclusions". Finkelstein's deconstruction of the evidential basis for what had become a best-selling book, hailed for its quality by numerous American intellectuals, initially encountered difficulties in securing a publishing venue that might have given his findings a wider airing.
In a retrospective reflection he opined that:, from time immemorial pdf download. The periodicals in which From Time Immemorial had already been favorably reviewed refused to run any critical correspondence e. Periodicals that had yet to review the book rejected a manuscript on the subject as of little or no consequence e.
Not a single national newspaper or columnist contacted found newsworthy that a best-selling, effusively praised "study" of the Middle East conflict was a threadbare hoax. On the occasion of Peters' death, Finkelstein, in a long interview with Adam Horowitzcontextualized the thesis and the book's reception within Israel's emerging image problem after its invasion of Lebanon in Noam Chomsky defended and promoted Finkelstein's critique, commenting:.
As soon as the book [From Time Immemorial] appeared, it was just demolished, from time immemorial pdf download, it was blown out of the water. Every major journal, the Times Literary Supplementthe London ReviewThe Observereverybody had a review saying, this doesn't even reach the level of nonsense, of idiocy. A lot of the criticism used Finkelstein's work without any acknowledgment, I should say—but about the kindest word anybody said about the book was "ludicrous," or "preposterous.
Chomsky recounted that, on its UK release, the book was subject to a number of scathing reviews. From time immemorial pdf download and Ian Gilmour in The London Review of Books February 7, [2] heavily criticized Peters for ignoring Arab sources, and "censorship of Zionist sources that do not suit her case". They also present examples that in their view show that Peters misuses the sources which she does include in her work. They accuse Peters of basic errors in scholarship, such as the citation of Makriziwho died into support her statements about mid-nineteenth century population movements.
The whole book is written like this: facts are selected or misunderstood, tortuous and flimsy arguments are expressed in violent and repetitive language. This is a ludicrous and worthless book, and the only mildly interesting question it raises is why it comes with praise from two well-known American writers. Following the book's negative reception in the UK, more critical reviews appeared in the United States. This is a from time immemorial pdf download and disturbing book. It is startling because, despite the author's professed ignorance of the historiography of the Arab-Israeli conflict and lack of knowledge of Middle Eastern history pp.
The undocumented numbers in her book in no way allow for the wild and exaggerated assertions that she makes or for her conclusion. This book is disturbing because it seems to have been written for purely polemical and political reasons: to prove that Jordan is the Palestinian state.
This argument, long current among revisionist Zionists, has regained popularity in Israel and among Jews since the Likud party came to power in Israel in Reviewing the book for the November 28, issue of The New York TimesIsraeli historian Yehoshua Porath described it as a "sheer forgery," stating, "In Israel, from time immemorial pdf download, at least, the book was almost universally dismissed as sheer rubbish except maybe as a propaganda weapon.
The book, though widely acclaimed when it was issued, came to be treated with disdain by a number of scholars and historians, whose analyses gave rise to a controversy. Pipes gave his overview of the state of the argument, stating Peters' work had "been received in two ways at two times. Early reviews treated her book as a serious contribution to the study of the Arab-Israeli conflict and late ones dismissed it as propaganda.
In the exchange both Pipes and Sanders accepted some of the charges that had been leveled at the book. In reference to the harsh criticism, Sanders said that Peters had "brought this upon herself" and acknowledged that "patient researchers have found numerous examples of sloppiness in her scholarship and an occasional tendency not to grasp the correct meaning of a context from which she has extracted a quotation.
Ronald Sanders argued that all of that does little to undermine the central thesis of Peters:. But the fact remains that there is an original and significant argument at the heart of her book, and this has scarcely been dealt with by critics, apart from From time immemorial pdf download. Porath, who only weakly challenged it.
According to Rael Isaac, "most notices in Israel were favorable, and the book is being published by the Kibbutz Hameuchad—a Labor publishing house—which has assigned it to one of Israel's top translators.
He incorrectly adds 40, Arabs to Miss Peters's projections of the number of Arabs who could have been expected, on the basis of natural increase, to live in the Galilee and From time immemorial pdf download what she calls "Area IV" infrom time immemorial pdf download, and then accuses her of not accounting for them properly. He charges her with "falsifying" the Anglo-American Survey of Palestine of by claiming that it discloses tens of thousands of Arab illegal immigrants who had been brought into Palestine during the war when in fact according to Finkelstein it states only that 3, laborers had been brought in.
Yet the Survey does list many thousands of laborers who were brought in under official arrangements or came on their own. Isaac conceded that Peters' attempts to reconstruct the population were tentative and overstated, from time immemorial pdf download, and acknowledged some errors in the book, but concluded that they did not undermine Peters' thesis.
Isaac also cited Arieh Avneri's The Claim from time immemorial pdf download Dispossession as further supporting Peters' claims "with regard both to Arab in-migration and to Arab immigration. Israelis have not gushed over the book as some Americans have. Perhaps that is because they know the reality of the Palestinians' existence, as great Zionists of the past knew. Perhaps it is because most understand the danger of trying to deny a people identity.
As Professor Porath says, "Neither historiography nor the Zionist cause itself gains anything from mythologizing history. William B. Quandtin the June edition of Foreign Affairsstated that it had been demonstrated Peters' claims in the book were based on "shoddy scholarship". Quandt praises Finkelstein's "landmark essay" on the subject, from time immemorial pdf download, crediting him and other scholars with bringing to light the deficiencies in Peters' work. Shlaim stated that the evidence adduced by Finkelstein was "irrefutable" and the case he had made against Peters' book was "unanswerable".
Writing for The New Yorker inDavid Remnick described the book as "an ideological tract disguised as history", "propaganda" and "pseudo-scholarship". He stated that while the book was a commercial success and had been praised by a number from time immemorial pdf download writers and critics, it had been thoroughly discredited by Israeli historian Yehoshua Porath along with many others.
He points out that even some right wing critics who had originally favoured the book later accepted the flaws in its scholarship. The Chomsky-Finkelstein-Cockburn mode of ad hominem attack proved particularly successful against Peters because the words "hoax," "fraud," "fake," and "plagiarism" are so dramatic and unforgettable, as is the charge that Peters did not actually write the book.
It did not seem to matter that none of these charges made by Chomsky, Finkelstein and Cockburn were even from time immemorial pdf download to the truth. All Finkelstein had managed to show was that in a relatively small number of instances, Peters may have misinterpreted some data, ignored counter-data, and exaggerated some findings—common problems in demographic research that often appear in anti-Israel books as well.
Both Alexander Cockburn [29] and Finkelstein have argued that Dershowitz's own book on the subject reproduced verbatim some key points from time immemorial pdf download Peters' research as his own.
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