Thank you for that

Garth Cartledge

At 01:31 PM 11/8/2004, donnella whitacre wrote:


>oh what a dunce i am sorry. it is called" From Time Immemorial" by Joan 
>Peters. i didn't understand what you meant. ISBN 0 06 015265-6 was written 
>in 1982.
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:But - what is the book and who is the 
>author?  As I said I missed the earlier parts of teh thread.  I canot get 
>and and read it until I know what I shoudl be getting :-)
>
>Ta
>
>Garth Cartledge
> >
> > From: donnella whitacre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: 08/11/2004 9:24:36
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Re: [rhetoric-list] Re: [RHETORIC] They Call him "Your 
> Exellency"
> >
> >
> > i dont know what you mean?  i quoted some of the people who reviewed 
> and talked about the book, i would just suggest you get it and read it 
> and make up your own mind about the material.
> > i read a great deal, i don't accept all of anything any one says. i 
> read for and against and hope that the material gives a broad picture.
> > "O Jerusalem" by by Larry Collins and  Dominique LaPierre. the only 
> thing i didnt' agree with them was deir Yassin. i had to get that from 
> several sources. it came down to a party line between the right and left 
> and they quoted the right in the book. several others didnt' agree with 
> them at all.
> > but on the whole the book is very fair and showed me some good and 
> wonderful things that arabs did during that pressing time.how the common 
> folks on both sides managed to be human in such a Horrible war.
> > they were very fair to both sides.
> > it took them 10 years of research to do the book.
> > but you can't say that maps and census's are lying . sorry.
> > any by the way i h ad this arguement with some one here. 
> Aramaic(targum) and Arabic are both lanugages. Aramaic is what jesus spoke .
> > any way, research means lots of reading not just one book and sometimes 
> you have to change your mind?
> >
> >
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Sorry, I missed the earlier part of this thread.  Cold you please give 
> me the full citation to Peters and her work, and in particular the work 
> being referred to here
> >
> > Ta
> >
> > Garth Cartledge
> > >
> > > From: donnella whitacre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Date: 08/11/2004 8:17:43
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: [rhetoric-list] Re: [RHETORIC] They Call him "Your 
> Exellency"
> > >
> > >
> > > she has quite a lot of quote and maps and resources all of which she 
> backs up. i have heard her favorably reveiwed by many people in this 
> area. i wonder with a bibliography as big as the book how she could be so 
> wrong. she names the people she quotes and i have these quotes from other 
> sources.
> > > i have heard mark twain quoted in a few lines, but she quotes a whole 
> letter of his in which he speaks of his diappointment with the lack of 
> people and the desolation of the land.
> > > i dont' use just one person, i have read much of what she said 
> elsewere. just didn't have the sources she quoted to back them  up. it is 
> kinda hard to dicker with the very people who said those things isn't it?
> > > how can you screw up the actual census records or officals who say 
> these things? also many of the arabs she quote are very pro israel?
> > > she was the white house consultant on the middle east in `1977 and 
> lectured extensivelly on the middle east.
> > > Philip m Hauser Director Emeritus Population Research Center, 
> University of Chicago and former acting director of the U.S.Census 
> states:" her book provides demographic and hsitoric perspectives which 
> have been inexplicably and substantially ingorned until now."
> > > Saul Bellows, S.D. Gotein, the Institute of Sdvanced Study, 
> Princeton. William v. O'Brian Gerogetown University , the New Rebulic, 
> National Review, Altantic Monthy, Los Angeles time, Toronto Star and many 
> many more are witness that some one thinks she is saying some thing worth 
> will.
> > > i have heard people dispute small things in her book but never 
> dispute the whole contents.
> > >
> > >
> > > "(ARTEMIS)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > > I would not use Peters as a source. Most scholars, including those 
> who are
> > > more sympathetic to the Zionist cause will not use her data, referring to
> > > it instead as pseudo-scholarship, since most of her own sources are not
> > > credible or some source quoting from another source who is quoting from
> > > yet another source and some of it has been refuted. It was poorly
> > > researched and seems now to be overly biased in favor of her conclusions.
> > > It is appealing to use her as a source to support your own 
> conclusions and
> > > agenda but it doesn't do you or your cause any good to do so.
> > >
> > > Hank
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, donnella whitacre wrote:
> > >
> > > > Sasson Saleb 90, was one of six elderly jews airlifted out of iraq to
> > > > israel on july 25, 2003. with his departure 28 jews remained in a
> > > > country that was once home to 125,000 jews. that is just one 
> country. we
> > > > out number the so called arab refugee a great many of who have only 
> been
> > > > there one generation. i just got done reading "From Time 
> Immemorial" and
> > > > if even half of it is true, this is the biggest lie fostered in this
> > > > century. her documentation is practically another book in its; self.
> > > > what israel has become is a direct result of 54 years of self defense.
> > > > untill the hatred shown them by the arabs is erased, i don't think 
> there
> > > > will be peace. as i told another poster, sharon is wiping out the
> > > > settlements trying to make it happen, alienating most of the jewish
> > > > population. i gaurantee you they will find some other reason why they
> > > > can't agree to peace. i am glad we can agree on something, that is a
> > > > start. great things come from little beginings.
> > >
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