Original sentence: Kathleen Christison was critical of Twain's book:.Twain described the land as empty of people and things, and essentially abandoned :.Twain's writings have often been cited as the preeminent primary source in chronicalling the demographics of what is now the modern-day State of Israel
Edited sentence: Kathleen Christison notes:.Twain's description of Palestine as a  land as empty of people and things, and essentially abandoned, is regularly quoted by controversial writers such as Shmuel Katz and Joan Peters: