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Nigel Parry, Middle East International
"It is unhesitatingly recommended, as a standard text, to anyone wishing to better understand the conflict."
Donald Neff, Journal of Palestine Studies
"[A] masterful treatise on how it is that the United States managed to ignore the Palestinians for a century."
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78 of 108 people found the following review helpful:
 Unhesitatingly recommended as a standard text, January 11, 2000
Although the history of America's "special relationship" with Israel is by no means a unexplored topic for authors, Kathleen Christison's "Perceptions of Palestine: Their influence on U.S. Middle East Policy" breaks new ground by its sheer scope of analysis, tracing 130 years of formulation of American perceptions of the Middle East, and their ultimate manifestation in U.S. government policy. "In the Middle East," writes Christison at the beginning of her book, "terminology shapes reality; it becomes a way of seeing reality, and, finally, it is reality." This single line, perhaps better than any other, encapsulates the political landscape mapped by Christison's book, a well-referenced 293-page investigation of the sources of the US mindset that has shaped Middle East policies through twelve key presidencies from Wilson to Clinton. "Perceptions on Palestine" analyses the state of knowledge of the president and key policymakers in each administration and the preconceptions with which they entered office, by examining - where available - their writings and the writings of those who most closely influenced them; by exploring coexistent popular attitudes towards the Middle East in the media, films, and literature; and by looking at how each administration was influenced by the prevailing conventional wisdom. I would unhesitatingly recommend this book as a standard text for anyone wishing to understand the reason for the prolonged nature of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
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106 of 142 people found the following review helpful:
Powerful, and probably very true, June 13, 2002
Christison's book on how the Palestinians have virtually been ignored by the United States throughout the Arab-Israeli conflict is a first-rate analysis of American foreign policy at its worst. She details the ways in which each president has been oblivious to the existence of a rich Palestinian culture and history. It is amazing how even the presidents we associate with being supportive of the Palestinian cause (Jimmy Carter) still suffered, to a certain degree, from this cross-cultural ignorance. Perceptions of Palestine is highly effective in forcing the reader to sit back and reflect on their own views. It made me question to validity and objectivity of the information I receive every day on the middle east. I highly recommend this book as there are not many out there with such a unique and important argument.
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2 of 66 people found the following review helpful:
 Why pay for Arab propaganda when you can get it for free?, March 30, 2006
I am sick and tired to read recycled Arab propaganda that has nothing to do with reality. If you can still cope with it - buy the book.
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56 of 70 people found the following review helpful:
Excellent.. and yes, the truth hurts, July 15, 2004
Reviewer: A reader
To those who call it anti-semitic, Arabs are semitic too, so drop it.. it's getting old. Everytime a book shows the truth about Israeli aggression against Palestinians it is called anti-semitic, untrue, and bias. Go there and see for yourself.The only way to peace in the Middle East is through peace between Palestinians and Israelis and this book shows a side that no one wants to hear.
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22 of 161 people found the following review helpful:
More anti-semitic drivel from an anti-Israel wacko, September 17, 2003
The Palestinian crusade against Israel is fueled by deception, anti-Semitism, Islamic terrorism and the unapologetic rewriting of Middle East history. The pages of this book clearly show this and prove to us why the Palestinians are doing so bad in the PR game. Aside from the obvious bias attitude of the author (she is married to an anti-Israel writer) this book is simply revisionist history, in which the true story is not good enough to tell their children, so they decide to rewrite it to their liking. This book is propaganda filled with lies and ridiculously false statistics, don't waste your time or money with this junk.
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46 of 217 people found the following review helpful:
Garbage ..., December 13, 2002
There is nothing objective about this book. The author subscribes to one-sided, conspiratorial views on events in the Middle East. According to author, the failure to achieve peace in the Middle East only has to do with some behind the scenes machinations by "Zionist Lobby", This is the same old, recycled garbage continuously put forth in the Middle East by the Arabs and in the West by the likes of various radicals - from National Alliance to Noam Chomsky and Co.The author completely ignores the facts of constant war and terrorism that's been imposed by the Arabs on Israel from its very day of inception. The author also ignores the refusal by most Arab world to recognize the right of Israel to exist. The author refuses to admit that it is the Arabs' militant, intolerant attitude towards Israel that is at least partially responsible for the continuation of this conflict and not the other way around.
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