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Daily Archives: March 14, 2018
Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial, Chapter 10: The Population Under the Turks, Mid-Nineteenth Century...
Introduction:
Peters prefaces this chapter with two quotations. The first is from a remarkable Anglican clergyman, James Parkes, born on Guernsey, he fought in WW 1, and spent substantial time on the Continent. There, he...
Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial, Chapter 11 Popular Misconceptions About the Population of Palestine
Introduction:
I have been severely jolted in reading Chapter 11 in the process of writing this précis. Growing up in England since before the outbreak of the Second World I was imbued with an abiding...
Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial, Chapter 12- A Hidden Factor in Western Palestine: Arab...
Introduction:
From my own point of view, Chapter 12 contains more than enough statistical evidence accumulated in years of study by many researchers whose work attests to disproportionate Arab immigration into a tiny portion, the...
FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL – Joan Peters – Chapter 13: A Hidden Movement: Illegal Arab...
Introduction
Joan Peters opens her chapter with quotes from British officials:
“Arab immigration into Palestine? Why, it did not exist. There was no such thing. No one ever kept track of that.
-Veteran archivist, British Public Record...
Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial, Chapter 14: Official Disregard of Arab Immigration
Introduction:
The history of the British people has been indelibly stained by the record of the British Government's mendacious, mal-intentioned management of the Palestine Mandate.
As the reader will see, those twin contortionists, the British...
Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial, Chapter 15: Britain’s Double Standard
Introduction
This chapter focuses on an issue which is documented or at least touched upon in almost every chapter of “From Time Immemorial”: British restriction and at times suspension of Jewish immigration to Palestine, combined...
Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial, Chapter 16: Jews in Palestine as “Illegals” and as...
Introduction
The Balfour Declaration (1917) speaks definitively of , “...the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people”. Four years later, The Mandate for Palestine repeats the identical phrase five times. Notwithstanding...
Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial, Chapter 17: “Muftism” and Britain’s Contribution to the “Final...
Introduction
Yes, you read that correctly: “...Britain's Contribution to the 'Final Solution'”. And the chapter argues forcefully that Britain de facto acquiesced to the genocidal policies of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in its implementation...
Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial, chapt. 18: The Flight from Fact
Introduction:
It was a privilege to re-read and summarize a chapter in this book. I hope that I was able to capture the nature of the author that permeates the pages: a devoted humanitarian, but...
