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Article: From time immemorial: the origins of the Arab-Jewish conflict over Palestine.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- October 5, 1984
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THIS BOOK is the intellectual equivalent of the Six-Day War. Indeed, if the pen is mightier than the sword, Joan Peters has done more to destroy Arab claims to Palestine than all the derring-do of the Israeli army since--well, if not from time immemorial, then at least from 1948 to the foreseeable future.
The Jews have an old joke--maybe not altogether a joke--that if Moses had turned right instead of left after leaving Egypt, look who'd have had all the oil. Mrs. Peters started left, her interest being the plight of the Arab refugees who, she assumed, had been ousted by the Zionists from Palestine, this homeland that had been theirs "from time immemorial." But ...