Peters' main contention is that many of the Arabs living in the area that became Israel did not descend from Arabs who had been there "from time immemorial" but were relatively recent arrivals. One indication of this migration, she argues, is that the "natural...
Paul Blair
Paul Blair is former editor of The Intellectual Activist.
From Time Immemorial – The British Mandate (Part 3 of 6)
The British assumed control of Palestine as a result of World War I; their administration of the territory was later recognized by League of Nations mandate. Peters persistently interprets the Mandate as having the goal of developing a Jewish state in Palestine:...
From Time Immemorial – Palestine on the Eve of Zionist Settlement: An Empty Land? (Part 2 of 6)
In 1901, Israel Zangwill wrote, "Palestine is a country without a people; the Jews are a people without a country."1 Joan Peters takes up this view, claiming a "profusion of evidence of an uninhabited Palestine [p.170]," and citing many travelers through Palestine to...
From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine (Part 1 of 6)
In 1984 Joan Peters' book From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine appeared to much critical acclaim. The book won the National Jewish Book Award; the New Republic said it would "change the mind of our generation." The jacket...
Elian Gonzalez Has a Right Not to Live in Slavery
Parental rights end where totalitarianism begins.
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