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The War on Error - Israel, Islam and the Middle East (Hardcover)
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The War on Error - Israel, Islam and the Middle East (Hardcover)
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In 'The War on Error', historian and political analyst Martin
Kramer presents a series of case studies, some based on pathfinding
research and others on provocative analysis, that correct
misinformation clouding the public's understanding of the Middle
East. He also offers a forensic exploration of how misinformation
arises and becomes "fact." The book is divided into five themes:
Orientalism and Middle Eastern studies, a prime casualty of the
culture wars; Islamism, massively misrepresented by apologists;
Arab politics, a generator of disappointing surprises; Israeli
history, manipulated by reckless revisionists; and American Jews
and Israel, the subject of irrational fantasies. Kramer shows how
error permeates the debate over each of these themes, creating
distorted images that cause policy failures. Kramer approaches
questions in the spirit of a relentless fact-checker. Did Israeli
troops massacre Palestinian Arabs in Lydda in July 1948? Was the
bestseller 'Exodus' hatched by an advertising executive? Did Martin
Luther King, Jr., describe anti-Zionism as antisemitism? Did a
major post-9/11 documentary film deliberately distort the history
of Islam? Did Israel push the United States into the Iraq War?
Kramer also questions paradigms-the "Arab Spring," the map of the
Middle East, and linkage. Along the way, he amasses new evidence,
exposes carelessness, and provides definitive answers.
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