Talk:Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in Palestine

message: The following paragraph needs to be rewritten using Katz's words, as it otherwise is commentary:
:Battleground raises many questions. Why do Leftists wildly denounce the only democracy in the Middle East, simultaneously siding with some of the world’s worst dictatorships? And why do Left-wing ideologues, if they are so opposed to imperialism, interpret the return of the Jewish people to their ancient homeland as an act of colonialism?
-- Steve Hart 19:22, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
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message: The sentence The book is widely used in the context of the Arab Israeli conflict and is taught in schools abroad as a historical source has been for a long time in the article without a source. If no source is provided to support this sentence, it ought to be removed.--Doron 00:36, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
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message: Katz might be a real historian (though his biography more or less rules this out).
But the only text from his book I've seen is this, and the man on the Clapham Omnibus would not mistake it for Reliably sourced history:
"Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in Palestine" p36: "....... The economic interest of the individual Arab in the perpetuation of the refugee problem and of his free keep is backed by the accumulating vested interest of UNRWA itself to keep itself in being and to expand. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency is thought of as some Olympian, philanthropic body directed and operated by a band of dedicated humanitarians, devoted exclusively to the task of helping suffering refugees. The fact is that the organisation consists of some 11,000 officials of whom all but a handful are Arabs who are themselves inscribed on the rolls as "refugees." They perform the field work; they, that is, hand out the relief. The remaining handful consists of some 120 Americans and Europeans who man the organisation’s central offices. Since UNRWA itself is thus a source of livelihood for some 50,000 people, no one connected with it has the slightest interest in seeing its task end or in protesting the fraud and deception it has perpetuated for over twenty years. The myth continues to live and to thrive, feeding on itself." PalestineRemembered 09:21, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
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