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Books by Christopher Hitchens (Study Guide): Blaming the Victims, God Is Not Great, the Missionary Position, Letters to a Young Contrarian
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-09-14.
ISBN 9781155162478
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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Blaming the Victims, God Is Not Great, the Missionary Position, Letters to a Young Contrarian, the Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-Believer, a Long Short War: the Postponed Liberation of Iraq, the Trial of Henry Kissinger, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays, Why Orwell Matters, Thomas Jefferson: Author of America, Thomas Paine's "rights of Man": a Biography. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question, is a collection of essays, co-edited by Edward Said and Christopher Hitchens, and first published by Verso Books in 1988 (ISBN 0-86091-887-4). See: Norman Finkelstein on From Time Immemorial The "broadcast" issue relates to whether or not the Palestinian Arab population who were dispossessed were induced or incited to run away by their own leadership during the 1948 Palestinian exodus. Hitchens refers to Benny Morris´s then newly published article The Causes and Character of the Arab Exodus from Palestine: The Israel Defence Forces Intelligence Service Analysis of June 1948, which was first published in January 1986 in the Middle Eastern Studies. According to Hitchens this confirmation; "by an Israeli historian using the most scrupulous and authentic Zionist sources, at last allows us to write finis to a debate which has been going on for a quarter of a century between Erskine B. Childers and Jon Kimche." In The Spectator 12 May 1961 Dr. Childers first wrote of his bafflement about the well-known Israeli claim that the Palestinians had been urged to flee by their own leadership: "Examining every official Israeli statement about the Arab exodus, I was struck by the fact that no primary evidence of evacuation orders was ever produced. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6172183
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