History Upside Down
Subtitle: The Roots of Palestinian Fascism and the Myth of Israeli Agression
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: December 20, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781594031922
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; History; History - General History; History: World; Middle East; Historiography; Middle East - General; History / World; World - General; Arab-Israeli conflict; National liberation movements; Nationalism; Palestine
Description: David Levi-Meir traces the ideological DNA behind Palestinian nationalism and its "alternative" histories, exposing how Nazism gave the Arab world's amorphous hatred of the Jews an intellectual structure and how Soviet communism veiled its genocidal ambitions with the mantle of national liberation. Meir-Levi then explodes this movement's cornerstone myths-myths that excuse years of unremitting terror, refashion the victim into the agressor, and flip the true history of the Middle East on its head.