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	Mrs. Peters's Palestine: An Exchange - The New York Review of Books
		Porath puts it, "she has apparently searched through documents for any statement to the effect that Arabs entered Palestine." And it must be granted that she has achieved ample results, though, of course, the statements she has collected are impressionistic and have no statistical value.
		Porath therefore maintains that "even if we put together all the cases she cites, one cannot escape the conclusion that most of the growth of the Palestinian Arab community resulted from a process of natural increase." But he goes no further than this flat assertion of his opinion against hers in challenging Mrs.
		Porath, that makes a good deal of sense: "The Ottoman Census," she writes, "apparently registered only known Ottoman subjects; since most Jews had failed to obtain Ottoman citizenship…, a representative figure of the Palestinian Jewish population could not be extrapolated from the 1893 census." It is a pity that Mrs.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/5172 (4164 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Society and Political Structure in the Arab World, edited by Menahem Milson; The Emergence of the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		...Porath notes that "the general Arab awakening penetrated into Palestine at the end of the First World War with the officers and propagandists of the army of the 'Revolt in the Desert,' which in late 1918 had established a semi-BOOKS IN REVIEW/8S independent Arab government in Damascus...
		...Porath tends to view his crucial success in subverting the program of the Arab moderates as a fortuitous break in the organic development of Palestinian Arab nationalism...
		...Finally, a paper on the Palestinian-Arab national movement by Yehoshua Porath sums up and brings to more recent times the detailed account of the early period of the movement, from 1918 to 1929, which is contained in his book on the subject...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V60I2P82-1.htm (2740 words)

	Necessary Illusions: Appendix V [29/33]
		The second was shortly after a meeting with Likud activist Moshe Amirav, with whom Husseini prepared a plan for a peaceful political settlement.
		Professor Yehoshua Porath, Israel's leading specialist on Palestinian nationalism, commented that Husseini and his Center were alone among Palestinian intellectuals and institutions in seeking contact with Israeli research institutions and scholars and calling for cooperation among Israelis and Palestinians.
		The government reaction is typical of the official response to the threat of moderation and political settlement.
	www.zmag.org /chomsky/ni/ni-c10-s29.html (1061 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		...Porath himself admits in his original article that the plan only talked of expelling Arabs where they engaged in violent opposition to the Haganah, and in his letter provides a reasonable ac- count of why it was so important for the nascent state to secure stra- tegic continuity...
		...Porath now asserts that the count for Jews was wrong because "all the Jewish newcomers were foreign nationals who cher- ished their privileged status under the capitulatory regime and would have refused to have anything to do with the census authorities...
		...Porath goes on to say: What she [Miss Peters] has done, to put it briefly, is to compare the figures for non-Jews in the 1893 Ottoman census of Palestine with the estimate of the Jewish population proposed by the French geographer Vital Cuinet in 1895...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V82I4P4-1.htm (17592 words)

	The War for Palestine : Rewriting the History of 1948 (Cambridge Middle East Studies)
		Porath mentions other massacres too--the December 30, 1947 murder of about 50 Jewish Haifa refinery workers by their Arab co-workers and the April 13, 1948 massacre of more than 80 Jewish doctors, nurses and Hebrew University workers on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem.
		Husseini was, in Porath's words, "an ardent and influential supporter of the Nazis and the Holocaust." A day after Hitler rose to power, Husseini gave Jerusalem's German Consul "his blessings in the name of `three hundred million Muslims'," and urged the Nazis to take the whole world.
		Porath calls it "a remarkable study in scholarly distortion." By taxing itself to the limit, Palestine's Jewish community managed to gather 35,000 soldiers by mid-1948, a number that reached 95,000 by early 1949.
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	From Time Immemorial (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Reviewing the book for the January 16, 1986 issue of The New York Review of Books, Yehoshua Porath, a prominent Israeli scholar in the field of Palestinian history wrote that Peters made "highly tendentious use — or neglect — of the available source material".
		But more crucially, he wrote, "is her misunderstanding of basic historical processes and her failure to appreciate the central importance of natural population increase as compared to migratory movements." Porath concluded:
		Miss Peters's central thesis is that a substantial immigration of Arabs to Palestine took place during the first half of the twentieth century.
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	PORATH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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	Books : The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949 (Cambridge Middle East Library) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Readers interested in Benny Morris should read Israeli historian Yehoshua Porath's "War and Remembrance" in the summer 2002 issue of Azure.
		Porath adds to the Oct. 1995 and April 1990 discussions by Robert Satloff and Shabtai Teveth in Middle Eastern Studies and to Efraim Karsh's excellent book, Fabricating Israeli History.
		But Porath, Karsh, Satloff and Teveth all show that this is not the case.
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	THE PEEL COMMISSION PARTITION PROPOSAL, 1937
		Yehoshua Porath attributes lasting significance in terms of the development of the pan-Arab movement to the support for the Palestinian Arab Revolt throughout the region, but also notes the economic necessity for the Palestinians to ‘deescalate’ the revolt due to the vital citrus harvest season and the dire state of the rural economy.
		In all, Porath’s assertion that the period represented a formative moment in the development of the Palestinian cause in the face of Zionism as a bedrock of Arab solidarity is born out by most commentators, Ayyad included.
		Yoav Gelber, among others, points out the many recurring elements of secretive collusion and twin-channel maneuvering which characterized the political strategies of the regional governments at the time, attributing to the period formative patterns of betrayal and manipulation that have persisted throughout the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
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	Faysal
		Despite his defeat by the French in Syria 1920 Faysal remained the hope of the Arab nationalists in the 1920's and early 1930's, in their efforts to achieve independence and unity for the Arab countries that were placed under European mandates.
		In those days he was the only Arab leader who could deal with all sides, primarily because he was accepted as the unifying leader by both the British and the French and by the other Arab leaders (Porath: 249/250).
		Porath, Yehoshua: "Iraq, King Faysal the First and Arab Unity", in: Studies in Islamic History and Civilization, ed.
	www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/bio/f/faysal.html (1134 words)

	The Hoot - MAIRSON: Mideast Scholarship, A Canard
		Hebrew University’s Yehoshua Porath, historian of Palestinian Arabs, wrote in the New York Review of Books, “I am reluctant to bore the reader and myself with further examples of Mrs.
		Yehoshua Porath observed of Joan Peters’s book, “[F]rom a position of apparently great learning and research, she attempts to refute the Arab myths merely by substituting the Jewish myths for them.” Can scholarship really triumph over ideology?
		The simpler solution, already evident from the Center’s initial speakers, is not a balanced view from any one individual, but a thermodynamic balance of individuals with conflicting views, in the hope that debate among them can generate light without too much heat.
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	The Leonard Davis Institute For International Relations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The seminar ended with a discussion in which Naomi Chazan (deputy chairperson, the Knesset) and Yehoshua Porath (the Hebrew University) represented different ends of the political spectrum.
		Porath maintained that since there is no peace on the horizon, talk of accommodating the Palestinians in the framework of a peace settlement is currently infeasible.
		Naomi Chazan (deputy chairperson, the Knesset) Yehoshua Porath (the Hebrew University)
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	From Time Immemorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Peters concludes therefore that many of the "refugees" from the 1948 Arab-Israeli war were not native Palestinians, although she does not claim that that these non-native persons represented a majority of the refugees.
		As a result of many critiques, including that of Yehoshua Porath, an influential Israeli scholar in the field of Palestinian history, the book is widely seen as having been discredited.
		Reviewing the book for the January 16, 1986 issue of The New York Review of Books, Porath wrote that Peters made "highly tendentious use — or neglect — of the available source material".
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/F/From-Time-Immemorial.htm (686 words)

	Israel Hasbara Committee
		Professor Porath examines what went wrong with the Oslo Accords of 13 September 1993 ten years later now that it is evident to everyone they completely failed.
		No doubt, this will come as quite a revelation to many but Porath points out that then prime minister Yitzhak Rabin thought, until the very last moment, he was making an agreement with the Palestinian Delegation from the territories.
		It was Professor Porath who concluded this was not the case.
	www.infoisrael.net /cgi-local/text.pl?source=4/b/iii/archives/150920031 (365 words)

	Alan Dershowitz - Plagiarist
		Initially given an ecstatic reception by publications such the New York Times the book was soon discredited as a charnel house of disingenuous polemic.
		The coup de grace was administered by Professor Yehoshua Porath in the New York Review of Books for January 16 and March 27, 1986.
		Though neither Peter's nor her book appear in the index to The Case for Israel, they do get a mention in note 3l of chapter 2, where Dershowitz cites the work of a 19th century French geographer called Cuinct, and adds, "See Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial (Chicago, JKAP Publications, 1984).
	www.rense.com /general42/plag.htm (1828 words)

	TruthNews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Professor Yehoshua Porath, for example, a leading Israeli academic and founder of the left-wing Peace Now movement, told an interviewer:
		Had Gradstein interviewed Professor Porath she surely would have gotten the same answer – perhaps it was an answer she didn't want NPR listeners to hear.
		Gradstein, however, did want listeners to hear about a new Israeli Supreme Court decision barring selective refusal to do army service in the territories, which she proceeded to cover in typical NPR fashion.
	truthnews.com /world/2003010053.htm (1024 words)

	Palestine information - Search.com
		In most cases, those venturing into the realm of Palestinian demography—or other demographic analyses based on very crude data—acknowledge its limitations and the tentativeness of the conclusions that may be drawn.
		Israeli historian Yehoshua Porath believes that the notion of "large-scale immigration of Arabs from the neighboring countries" is a myth "proposed by Zionist writers".
		As all the research by historians and geographers of modern Palestine shows, the Arab population began to grow again in the middle of the nineteenth century.
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	Political Forum Posts Page 5 of 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It was only after the Jews had bought all of the available uncultivated land that they began to purchase cultivated land.
		Even at the height of the Arab revolt in 1938, the British High Commissioner to Palestine believed the Arab landowners were complaining about sales to Jews to drive up prices for lands they wished to sell.
		28; Yehoshua Porath, The Emergence of the Palestinian-Arab National Movement, 1918-1929, (London: Frank Cass, 1974), pp.179-180, 224-225, 232-234; Yehoshua Porath, Palestinian Arab National Movement: From Riots to Rebellion: 1929-1939, vol.
	www.politicalforum.com /viewtopic.php?p=38127 (2043 words)

	National Socialism and Anti-Semitism in the Arab World - Matthias Kuentzel
		Along with the Jews and the British, Palestinians who sought compromises with Zionism and the Mandatory power and supported the Peel Plan were also targeted.
		Yehoshua Porath, The Palestinian Arab National Movement: From Riots to Rebellion, Vol.
		In November 1935, al-Qassam became the first victim of the death cult he promoted when he was killed in a skirmish with the British, and has since been revered as a martyr.
	www.jcpa.org /phas/phas-kuntzel-s05.htm (7494 words)

	Bitter Lemons: The Israel-Hezbollah prisoner exchange \| The Tharwa project
		Hezbollah is the only organization or government that has forced Israel to withdraw from occupied Arab territory under fire.
		Kidnapping pays, and if it's hard to abduct live Israelis, it pays just as well to murder them and abduct the bodies.
		Yehoshua Porath is professor emeritus in the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
	www.tharwaproject.org /node/117 (3306 words)

	Lessons from Israel’s Retreat from Gaza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		After brief remarks by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) commander before a small crowd of journalists, who except for the distant Palestinians provided the only audience for the historic event, Israel’s failed policy “creating facts” on the ground came to an anticlimactic end.
		The withdrawal, wrote Yehoshua Porath, an Israeli scholar who has written widely on Palestinian nationalism, “was foreseeable and could have been predicted from the very first moment when Israel commenced its folly of building settlements in the Gaza Strip.
		Even if Israel had millions of reserve inhabitants and were ready and able to settle there and to transform Gaza’s national character into Jewish- Israeli, there would have been no room for them, either physically or economically.
	www.palestine-pmc.com /details.asp?cat=4&id=2431 (1422 words)

	On Anniversary of Sabra and Shatila, Israel Puts Marwan Barghouti on Trial
		But, in fact, the PLO had scrupulously observed a U.S.-brokered cease-fire with Israel for more than a year.
		The true purpose of Israel’s invasion, according to Israeli scholar Yehoshua Porath, was to deny the PLO a territorial base in Lebanon in the hope “it will return to its earlier terrorism...
		Porath is quoted by former U.S. Undersecretary of State George W. Ball in his 1984 book, Error and Betrayal in Lebanon, published by the Foundation for Middle East Peace.
	www.wrmea.com /archives/november02/0211011.html (814 words)

	Palestinian Uprisings Compared - Middle East Quarterly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The result was a civil war for the very soul of the Palestinian people.
		Writes historian Yehoshua Porath, "a terrible blood feud between two Palestinian camps resulted in a mutual hatred and dissidence so intense that a return to the show of unity became impossible."
		Yehoshua Porath, "The Political Organization of the Palestinian Arabs under the British Mandate," in Moshe Ma'oz, ed., Palestinian Arab Politics (Jerusalem: Academic Press, 1975), p.
	www.meforum.org /article/206 (4676 words)

	Lessons from the Prophet Muhammad's Diplomacy - Middle East Quarterly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In a second incident, Yehoshua Porath, a well-known professor of Middle Eastern history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, wrote in The New Republic of July 8, 1996:
		Muhammad broke the agreement eighteen months after its conclusion, when the balance of power changed in his favor, and it has become a guiding precedent in Islamic law for how to deal with non-Muslim powers.
		Porath's credentials and stature perhaps explain why the reaction to this passage was particularly vehement.
	www.meforum.org /article/480 (4216 words)

	Israel Resource Review -- 13th September, 2005 -- Newsletter about Israel,Palestinians,the Middle ...
		Professor Porath Predicts Israel Will Reconquer Gaza by Prof.
		Few situations in human history can be defined in clear-cut terms as victory or defeat.
		Yehoshua Porath is emeritus professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
	israelbehindthenews.com /Archives/Sep-13-05.htm (1079 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A detailed and in my mind fair critique is done by Israeli scholar Yehoshua Porath.
		In addition to criticizing the appalling documentation, misleading quotes taken out of context and twisting of facts to meet her agenda, Porath also goes after her central thesis.
		He argues that the natural increase in the Palestinian Arab population due to lower death rates due to improved medication and sanitation in the 20th century as opposed to immigration as Peters' contends
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	The Case for Israel (2003)
		The charges against the present book is that Dershowitz has lifted some of the material from the egregiously pro-Israeli book From Time Immemorial by Joan Peters.
		You can read about the controversy at Finkelstein's web site, and you can read about the problems with Peters' book in the excellent exchange between Yehoshua Porath (1/16/86) and Daniel Pipes and Ronald Sanders (3/27/86) in the New York Times review of books.
		Peters has exaggerated some of her claims about the number of Jews living in Palestine at the end of the 19th century and in the early 20th century.
	www.gotterdammerung.org /books/reviews/c/case-for-israel.html (2557 words)

	Alan Dershowitz
		Yehoshua Porath rightly accuse Dershowitz's writing in The Case for Israel of plagiarism.
		Passages of similarity are pointed out between this work and Joan Peters' 1984 book, From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine.
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