The book is well-documented. Minelle Paloff
----- Original Message ----- From: "donnella whitacre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 3:17 PM 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: > > ================== > FIGHT THE RIGHT! > ================== > > 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. > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/XgSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- / o o \ ===OO=====OO============================================= (4)Portals (2)News Wikis (2)Conferences - No BuSHIT! Start here: http://pnews.org/ (On Internet since 1982) http://pnews.org/PhpWiki/ (West Coast News Wiki) http://g0lem.net/PhpWiki/ (East Coast News Wiki) ========================================================= FIGHT THE RIGHT! ================== Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rhetoric-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
