tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post6954398563974593755..comments2024-03-14T02:22:26.957+00:00Comments on Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab and Muslim Countries: Avi Shlaim finds 'In Ishmael's House' 'one-sided'Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-55822234024328976732010-10-16T19:43:05.052+01:002010-10-16T19:43:05.052+01:00"Gilbert quotes an Iraqi Jew, Eli Timan, livi..."Gilbert quotes an Iraqi Jew, Eli Timan, living in London: “The difference is that we got on with our life, worked hard and progressed so that today there is not a single Jewish refugee from Arab lands.” Those who suggest that this model be copied elsewhere will of course be condemned as heartless bigots."<br /><br />That's why Shlaim doesn't like the book.zachary estersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16954262967214684655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-76305247113190962972010-10-16T19:40:53.394+01:002010-10-16T19:40:53.394+01:00So why doesn't Shlaim write a better history ...So why doesn't Shlaim write a better history of the Jews under Islam?zachary estersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16954262967214684655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-25183564795370075942010-09-03T06:48:47.202+01:002010-09-03T06:48:47.202+01:00Shlaim sold his soul for a comfortable career amon...Shlaim sold his soul for a comfortable career among the antisemitic British academia.yzernikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05330474202568862925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-25573585494253811972010-09-02T05:27:04.296+01:002010-09-02T05:27:04.296+01:00the record of tolerance, creative co-existence and...<i>the record of tolerance, creative co-existence and multi-culturalism in Muslim lands</i><br /><br />The record of tolerance, creative co-existence and multi-culturalism in Muslim lands is only a tad less impressive than the record of tolerance, creative co-existence and multi-culturalism in Nazi Germany.<br /><br />Shlaim is worse than simply a fool -- he is a dangerously dishonest and malicious fool.Pro-Zionistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-83171709041046146492010-08-31T09:34:43.889+01:002010-08-31T09:34:43.889+01:00Shlaim complains that "the name palestine was...Shlaim complains that "the name palestine was wiped off the map." Actually, Palestine was always a Western name for the land that the Jews have traditionally called Israel. There was no "palestine" or "Filastin" under the Mamluk and Ottoman empires. In Arab/Muslim geography, the country was simply an indistinct part of Syria or Greater Syria [<i>bilad ash-Sham</i>]. So the name that was wiped off the map was a name imposed on the Land of Israel by the West, by Britain and other powers, and endorsed by the League of Nations, then Western-dominated.<br /><br />However, after the name "palestine" it had come into use, King Abdullah of Transjordan, wanted to apply it to his expanded kingdom which had annexed most of Judea-Samaria area ["West Bank"]. Transjordan, which refers only to the east bank, was not as descriptive as "palestine," he thought, which referred to both banks of the Jordan. But Alec Kirkbride, the British political resident in Transjordan, advised him NOT to call his kingdom "Palestine," since that way the Arabs could not claim the area held by Israel. Only if "palestine" were applied only to the part of the country held by the Jews could the Arabs demand it as "palestine." So even as far back as 1950, British political operatives in the Middle East were thinking of how to help the Arabs destroy Israel by --inter alia-- use of the name "palestine" for Israel.<br /><br />I will leave it to Bataween to note the several other significant faults in Shlaim's reasoning.Eliyahu m'Tsiyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07973268399414290195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-30097102719002130082010-08-31T09:21:24.160+01:002010-08-31T09:21:24.160+01:00o/t
the book by Martin Cuppers on Nazi plans to ex...o/t<br />the book by Martin Cuppers on Nazi plans to exterminate the Jews in Israel, as well as elsewhere in the Middle East, is now out. Amazon has a summary and short reviews.<br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/Nazi-Palestine-Plans-Extermination-Jews/dp/1929631936?coliid=&colid=17HBF14IUK6BO&camp=212361&linkCode=wwl&tag=fan-20&creative=383877Eliyahu m'Tsiyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07973268399414290195noreply@blogger.com