How Israel Was Won: A Concise History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Psychologist Thomas has adopted the Israeli revisionist interpretation of the Arab-Israeli conflict currently in vogue and fashioned an interesting "history" of events, from early Zionism through the current peace process. He argues that because of what he calls "the Holocaust syndrome"Athat is, sympathy for the plight of European JewryAIsraeli policy has been given too favorable a spin. Thomas claims to pierce the veil of myth surrounding the traditionally popular pro-Israeli stance on the Arab-Israeli conflict, but he draws primarily on secondary sources and frequently makes unsupported assertions. While offering an interesting perspective for both the casual reader and the specialist, this account should be read against Efraim Karsh's Fabricating Israeli History: The "New Historians" (Intl. Specialized Bk. Svcs., 1997).ASanford R. Silverburg, Catawba Coll., Salisbury, NCCopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.