B04202 - From Time Immemorial

To understand what is happening in the Middle East, one must begin with its past, which Joan Peters (a former White House consultant on the Middle East) traces to the present with unmatched skill. This book is for all those who wish to have a clear view of the Arab-Jewish conflict over Palestine.

• Part I - The Middle East Refugees Recognized and Unrecognized
• Part II - The Creation of Yesterday: Early Population and Depopulation of the Holy Land
• Part III - The Political Influence of Tradition: Immigrants and In-migrants Recognized and Unrecognized

A National Jewish Book Award Winner and national bestseller. Extensive bibliography, nine appendices. From the back cover: Critical acclaim for FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL, the landmark best seller that has changed forever the debate about the conflicting claims of the Arabs and the Jews in the Middle East: "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." -Saul Bellow "Joan Peters' book provides necessary demographic and historic perspectives which have been inexplicably and substantially ignored until now, but without which misconceptions and policy distortions are inevitable. The reader will be most impressed with the thoroughness and prodigious input this work entails, as I was." -Philip M. Hauser, Director Emeritus, Population Research Center "Contains much valuable information...deserving the attention of anyone seriously concerned with the Palestinian problem." -S.D. Goitein, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton "Joan Peters strikes a heavy blow against the broad consensus about 'the Palestinians' and the assumption that Palestinian rights are at the heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict...FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL supplies abundant justification for reversing the moral and legal presumptions that have cast Israel in the role of defendant before the court of world opinion." -William V. O'Brien, Georgetown University Joan Peters has written and lectured widely on the Middle East, Central America, and the Soviet Union. She has contributed to HARPER'S COMMENTARY, THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE NEW LEADER, and other periodicals, and has served as White House consultant on the Middle East. Table of Contents:

1. The Puzzle's Extra Pieces
2. The Invitation
3. The Arab Jew
4. Ideology of the East, Rhetoric of the West
5. Last Year and Next Year in Jerusalem: Zionism in the Arab World and the Holy Land
6. Invitation Declined
7. Remnant of a Tradition: the Arab-Jewish Diaspora
8. "Palestina": A Precedent of Prey
9. Dhimmi in the Holy Land
10. The Population Under the Turks: Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1918
11. Popular Misconceptions about the Population of "Palestine"
12. A Hidden Factor in Western Palestine: Arab In-Migration
13. A Hidden Movement: Illegal Arab Immigration
14. Official Disregard of Arab Immigration
15. Britain's Double Standard
16. Jews in Palestine as "Illegals" and as War Allies
17. "Muftism" and Britain's Contribution to the "Final Solution"
18. The Flight from Fact

• Title: From Time Immemorial
• Item#: B04202
• ISBN: 0-9636242-0-2
• Size: 601 pages
• Length: 8.00
• Width: 5.25
• Weight: 1.6
• Copyright: 1984