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From Time Immemorial, Summary of Chapter 1: The Puzzle’s Extra Pieces
Introduction
Joan Peters’ book, published in 1984 and 7 years in the making, began as a sympathetic investigation into the reasons why the Palestinians have...
Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial, Chapter 2: The Invitation
Introduction
Some personal Reflections on this chapter:
The overarching, abiding sentiment that resonates with me after reading this chapter is of the incontrovertible conclusion that the...
From Peters’ Time Immemorial, Summary of Chapter 3: The Arab Jew
Introduction
“The Arab Jew” is the longest chapter of Joan Peters' book. The chapter profiles many of these vulnerable communities, the other, true but ignored,...
Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial, Chapter 4: Ideology of the East, Rhetoric of the...
Introduction:
Edmund Burke said “Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it”. It would be comforting to think that World War II, the...
Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial, Chapter 5: Zionism in the Arab World and The...
Introduction/Personal note:
Salomon Benzimra z”l submitted this summary barely two weeks before his untimely death on March 15, 2016. He passed away on a flight...
Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial, Chapter 6: Invitation Declined
Introduction:
The rosy picture of the traditional tolerance and just treatment of Jews under Islamic rule has been largely demolished by the testimony of Jewish...
Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial, Chapter 7 Remnant of a Tradition: The Arab-Jewish Diaspora
This chapter deals with the remnants of those Jewish communities in Arab lands in the Middle East and North Africa. By 1982 the largest...
Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial, Chapter 8 “Palestina”: A Precedent of Prey
“'Palestina': A Precedent of Prey” examines the falsehoods inherent in the modern-day Arabic-Muslim narrative that the Land was always Arab. Ms. Peters traces the...
Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial, Chapter 9: Dhimmi in the Holy Land
Introduction:
This chapter is replete with excerpts from historical observations of the life of the Jews in Palestine in the middle ages through to the...
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...
