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020			_a9781859843406
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245		0	_aBlaming the victims _b: spurious scholarship and the Palestinian question _c/ Edited by Christopher Hitchens and Edward W. Said
260			_bVerso Books _c2001
300			_a304p;
520			_aThis book demonstrates how the denial of truth about the Palestinians by governments and the media in the West has led to the current impasse in Middle East politics. The book attempts to redress a sustained crime against historical truth in order to make a more rational future possible. Since the 1948 war which drove them from their heartland, the Palestinian people have consistently been denied the most basic democratic rights. Blaming the Victims shows how the historical fate of the Palestinians has been justified by spurious academic attempts to dismiss their claim to a home within the boundaries of historical Palestine and even to deny their very existence. Beginning with a thorough exposé of the fraudulent assertions of Joan Peters concerning the indigenous inhabitants of Palestine prior to 1948, the book then turns to similar instances in Middle East research where the truth about the Palestinians has been systematically suppressed: from the bogus—though still widely believed—explanations of why so many Palestinians fled their homes in 1948, to today’s distorted propaganda about PLO terrorism. The volume also includes sharp critiques of the wide consensus in the USA which supports Israel and its territorial ambitions while maintaining total silence about the competing reality of the Palestinians.
546			_aEnglish
648			_a20th century _92305
650			_aDS 114-128.2 History of Asia- Palestine- History _92306
650			_aDisinformation _92307
650			_aالأراضي المحتلة _93352
651			_aPalestine _92308
700			_aAbu-Lughod, Ibrahim _92309
700			_aAbu-Lughod, Janet L. _92310
700			_aBowersock, G.W. _92311
700			_aChomsky, Noam _92312
700			_aFinkelstein, Norman G. _92313
700			_aHallaj, Muhammad _92314
700			_aHitchens, Christopher _92315
700			_aKhalidi, Rashid _92316
700			_aKidron, Peretz _92317
700			_aSaid, Edward W _92318
710			_aZureik, Elia _92319
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