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Interesting, February 5, 2008
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I bought this book to learn. Wow! It definitely is an eye-opener.
The author is clearly pro-Arab, but after reading the book and checking several of his facts, I think it may be hard to not at least consider the Arab position. Read it with a grain of salt and draw your own conclusions.
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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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Loved for its truth, hated for its reality, May 2, 2008
This review is from: Arabs and Israel For Beginners (Paperback)
Arabs and Israel for Beginners is, bar none, the best introduction to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict currently available. Some reviewers hate it, others love it, and it isn't hard to understand why. This book documents a painful reality that is hated by those it condemns but loved by seekers of truth and justice. If we identify this book's critics with their ideological prejudices we quickly realize each of their cries of protest, rather than representing a valid criticism, in fact validates the truth of the content. As John Toland once wrote, "This conduct, on the contrary, will make them suspect all to be a cheat and imposture, because men will naturally cry out when they are touched in a tender part . . . no man will be angry at a question who's able to answer it. . . ." And "answer it," they most certainly do not. None of this book's detractors refute the well-documented facts presented therein, for the simple reason that they cannot. Truth stands firm against deceit.
Arabs and Israel for Beginners should not be rated five stars, but 220 stars -- one for each page. Furthermore, the authors deserve recognition for their bravery in standing up to one of the greatest disinformation campaigns of the modern age. Considering how the discussed issues are reshaping our world, this book is not simply an informative read: It's a must-read!
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15 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
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Every fact in the book is easily verifiable--and it is the truth!, January 15, 2008
This review is from: Arabs and Israel For Beginners (Paperback)
ARABS & ISRAEL FOR BEGINNERS tells the truth, plainly and simply, without fancy talk and without evasions. Statements about Israel's origin usually begin with "Israel was 'established'..." Of course nobody knows exactly what is meant by "established"--so I will tell you exactly what that intentionally evasive word means.
In 1896, because of anti-Semitism in France, Theodor Herzl wrote the book "The Jewish State" in which he argued that Jews would never be allowed to assimilate, so they should build their own country.
He suggested that they build their new country in Palestine, a place that only a handful of Jews lived in since the time of Christ.
Jews, following Herzl's plan (and paid for by wealthy guys who pay others to take the risks involved in stealing someone else's country) began moving to Palestine by the hundreds and demanding that Palestine be turned into a Jewish country.
In 1919, after World War 1, US President Woodrow Wilson sent a fact finding group, The King-Crane Commission, to Palestine to "ascertain the wishes of the people." In accordance with the principles of Democracy, President Wilson sent the commission to count the population of Palestine--and ask them what THEY wanted.
Fact: Even after 25 years of intensive immigration to Palestine, Jews constituted less than 10% of the population of Palestine.
Fact: 90% of the population was (to state the obvious) PALESTINIAN!
Fact: The King-Crane Commission reported to President Wilson that 90% of the population of Palestine were Palestinian--Arabs--who had lived in the same place for hundreds of years and did NOT want their country turned into a Jewish country.
The King Crane Commission recommended that: 1) Jews must find another place to put a Jewish country; 2) To put a Jewish country in Palestine would trespass on the religious and civil rights of the existing population; 3) Proof of the unfairness of the situation (they said) was the fact that it could only be maintained by a large military or police force.
90 years later and the country Israel "borrowed" from Palestine still has to be maintained a large military/police force--Israel's occupying army.
President Wilson passed on his commission's recommendation--the Jewish people must find another place to put their country.
That was in 1919.
The Zionists (the Jewish zealots) ignored President Wilson and kept moving Jews into Palestine and putting pressure on anyone they could.
In 1948, the United Nations voted to "partition" Palestine, giving two-thirds of it to Zionists/Israel--DESPITE THE FACTS THAT: 1) The Palestinians had a two-to-one majority in population; 2) Jews owned less than 7% of Palestine; 3) the Palestinians had lived in Palestine for hundreds of years.
Giving two-thirds of Palestine to Zionists was an insult to Democracy.
It was blatant stealing, legalized theft.
Please don't take my word for it. All of the population numbers I have given, along with the basic facts of the King Crane Commission and the United Nations document partitioning Palestine are publicly available documents that anyone can read.
The only way that 10% of a population can take over a country is by stealing it. I would gladly take a polygraph test to prove that every word in this book is as true and accurate as I could make it.
Ron David--the author
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