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• arab israeli conflict
• middle eastern history
• use of quotation marks
• likud party
• scholarly abilities
• arab sources
• zionists
• historiography
• undertone
• lack of knowledge
• palestinian state
• assertions
• footnotes
• jews
• popularity
• jordan
• israel
• conclusion

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He concluded: This is a startling and disturbing book. It is startling because, despite the author's professed ignorance of the historiography of the Arab-Israeli conflict and lack of knowledge of Middle Eastern history (pp. 221, 335) coupled with her limitation to sources largely in English (absolutely no Arab sources are used), she engages in the rewriting of history on the basis of little evidence. ...The undocumented numbers in her book in no way allow for the wild and exaggerated assertions that she makes or for her conclusion. This book is disturbing because it seems to have been written for purely polemical and political reasons: to prove that Jordan is the Palestinian state. This argument, long current among revisionist Zionists, has regained popularity in Israel and among Jews since the Likud party came to power in Israel in 1977. Olson, Robert. "From Time Immemorial (Book Review)." American Historical Review 90, no. 2 (April 1985): 468.

The author's linguistic and scholarly abilities are open to question. Excessive use of quotation marks, eccentric footnotes, and a polemical, somewhat hysterical undertone mar the book. In short, From Time Immemorial stands out as an appallingly crafted book.

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