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mingled in joyful and con-
genial happiness until the
advent of Zionism and
rapacious Jewish
nationalism.
Author Peters now be-
lieves that these two ideas
are no more than clumsy
fabrications invented by
Arab propagandists in order
to perpetuate hatred of Is-
rael on the one hand and to
ensure that Palestinian
Arabs continue to be the ve-
hicles of that hatred.
On the question of the
much vaunted Arab-Jewish
historical camaraderie so
highly touted by Mr. Arafat,
researcher Peters suggests
that this romanticized ver-
sion has little relation to the
truth. The author repro-
duces both historical
chronicle and eyewitness
testimony (from Jews who
have lived in Arab lands) to
show that Jews were at best
tolerated in Muslim society
and at worst murdered in-
discriminately. Peters indi-
cates that emphasis on un-
gracious references to Jews
in the Koran has been re-
sponsible for much of the
torment Jews have had to
suffer under Islam.

Having disposed of that
myth, the author moves on
to the demolition of the
major myth which has
obstructed any solution to
the Mideast imbroglio. Pet-
ers says flatly that the
Palestinian Arabs were not
domiciled in present day Is-
rael from time immemorial.
On the contrary, in so far as
one can speak of an Arab
population (and the defini-
tion is more elusive than
one might think) there was
only one period of about a
hundred years, from the
Seventh to the Eighth Cen-
tury, when Arab-Muslims
were in control of the area
known as Palestine.
According to Peters, the
majority of Arab residents
of Palestine who were there
when the 1948 Arab-Israeli
war broke out were either
themselves immigrants to
Palestine from adjacent

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Arab states (especially
Egypt and Syria) or were
the children of such immig-
rants.
This demographic truth,
argues Peters, has been
willfully neglected by the
West, obscured by the
British and passed over
with silent malice by the
Arabs. The author ex-
presses amazement that
even some Israelis, ignorant
of history and exposed con-
stantly to barrages of Arab
propaganda about the "from
time immemorial" motif,
have succumbed to the fal-
lacious argument.
One of the remarkable
features of Peters' solid
work is the story dhow she
obtained information about
the Arab immigration into
Palestine in the early de-
cades of this century. The
British, for example, were
not very forthcoming in this
regard. Some officials even
denied that there was an
Arab immigration; records,
it was said, were kept only
about Jews entering the
country.
By dint of incredible de-
termination, brilliant de-
tective work and patience
which would have daunted
others, Peters managed to
unearth piles of statistical
information which bore -out
the fact that, hundreds of
thousands of Arabs had
poured into Palestine from
the first years of the British
mandate (1917) until the
emergence of Israel in 1948.
Peters says they came for
two reasons — to benefit
from the improved employ-
ment climate fostered by
the Zionist enterprise and to
check Jewish population
growth with an equally
muscular Arab one.
The British, according to
Peters, knew full well about
Arab immigration but pre-
ferred to allude to natural
reproductive growth among
the Arabs. The reason?
They wanted an increased
Arab presence in Palestine
to -subvert the idea of the
Jewish National Home that
had been promised to the
Jews in the 1917 Balfour
Declaration. -
According to the author,
the creation of a Palestinian
identity through a mis-
chievous re-writing of his-
tory was a callous maneu-
ver on the part of ideologists
such as Musa Alami and
was designed to deligiti-
mate the idea of the Jewish
state. The fact that this
myth has caused untold suf-
fering to the refugees from
Palestine- seems not, says
Peters, to have' bothered the
Arabs.
Ms. Peters has antici-
pated virtually every obser-
vation that the critic- can
advance about her thesis.

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