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History Upside Down: The Roots of Palestinian Fascism and the Myth of Israeli Aggression | 
 enlarge | Author: David Meir-levi
Publisher: Encounter Books
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Pages: 152
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Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 1594031924
Dewey Decimal Number: 956.953044
EAN: 9781594031922
ASIN: 1594031924
Publication Date: December 20, 2007
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Forty years ago, a significant part of the political, religious, intellectual, and terrorist leadership of the Arab world declared an all-out war against the documented history of the Middle East and America's role in the Muslim world. Arab PR professionals and spinmeisters have rewritten the record for political and propaganda purposes. Blaming the Victim is the first wave in a counterattack against that Arab war on history.
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 The Jews of Israel are the Real Victims December 26, 2007
David Thomson (Houston, TX USA)
117 out of 152 found this review helpful
David Meir-Levi succinctly---and convincingly presents the case that Israel is the victim of an organized slander campaign. It did not begin yesterday. The slandering began well over seven decades ago. History has indeed been turned upside down. A large number of Westerners, perhaps even the majority, perceive the Arab religious and secular militants as freedom fighters against Israeli imperialism. The Arabs were supposedly robbed of their land and dignity. Both the Communists and the Nazis taught them how to employ the rhetoric of victimization to further their goals. "Stop talking about annihilating Israel," advised North Vietnam's General Giap, "and instead turn your terror war into a struggle for human rights. Then you will have the American people eating out of your hand." No truer words were ever spoken. This is definitely the consensus opinion of the hard Left and Right within the United States. The entire book contains only 131 pages. It is, as far as I'm concerned, the best short work available to offer well meaning individuals confused by extremist propaganda.
Exposing the lies December 22, 2007
Michael
86 out of 111 found this review helpful
This is the best book on the Arab-Israeli conflict since "Battleground" by Samuel Katz in 1985, because it effectively makes the rarely-heard case for Israel. A short book, it shows concisely how and why the popular arguments against Israel are false. The first half documents the cultural and historical sources for the Arab determination to destroy Israel. Although we are gradually learning about the dangers of religious fanaticism among Arabs, most people today are unaware of the Palestinian Arab collaboration with the Nazis during World War II or how their leaders were later trained and directed by communists in the Soviet Union for their own ideologically-driven goals. These goals include spreading egregious lies and false narratives to fool the ignorant. The second half demolishes the standard accusations against the Jewish state made by anti-Zionists and anti-Semites, such as the topics of refugees, "occupation," settlements, and whether the land was "stolen." Relying entirely on facts and logic, this rhetoric-free book makes an excellent resource for preparing to debate the Middle East. The only fault with the book: no maps!
Exposes some ridiculous untruths about Israel that should not have been believed in the first place December 30, 2007
Jill Malter (jillmalter@aol.com)
81 out of 103 found this review helpful
This short book summarizes some rather obvious truths about the Arab-Israeli conflict. I'm giving it five stars only because many of these truths are disputed in what ought to be respectable places.
The first chapter traces the roots of some of the Arab anti-Israeli aggression to the German National Socialists. The second chapter shows an additional source of inspiration for these aggressors, namely the Communist Soviet Union. As Meir-Levy explains, the Levantine Arabs have never had a sovereign state. Nor have they been a people or a nation, or even claimed to be one prior to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. When the West Bank was controlled by Jordan, there was no move to liberate that land from Jordan: Arafat's gang had designs only on Israel. The author claims that Arafat in fact created "the only national movement for political self-determination in the entire world, and across all of world history, to have destruction of a sovereign state and the genocide of a people as its only raison d'etre." I think that's pretty much the case, although some national movements, such as that of the Sudeten Germans, have been similar in some respects.
The focus of the third chapter is on Hamas. Israel at first hoped that Hamas might be a counterweight to Arafat's organization. But when Hamas began a long series of deadly terror attacks, Israel outlawed it, in 1989. Here, Meir-Levy points out that "perhaps the most valuable asset of all for Hamas has been the United Nations.
Chapter Four discusses a very specific lie, namely, "Zionists stole our land." And while it is true that from the year 1880 to 1930, about eight hundred families were indeed rendered landless by Jewish land purchases during that time, these were in fact legal purchases. I would add that the presence of the Jews improved the economy and caused an increase, not a decrease, in the Arab population.
Yes, there was a flight of Arabs in 1947 and 1948, but that was brought about not by the Zionists, but by Arab aggression, which caused the Jews to defend themselves. The resulting war did cause many Arabs to flee, but this was in no way a Jewish plot to steal land! Yes, I am sure that many Zionists dearly wanted to buy more land, but once again, I favor legal purchases of land and I think it is outrageous to call such purchases (especially when one is the high bidder and pays high prices) "theft."
The fifth chapter is about the Levantine Arab refugees. As the author tells us, the State of Israel was not responsible for the refugee status of these people, and it is a malicious lie to say otherwise. In fact, I would remind people that Israel has been reprimanded by the United Nations when it has tried to get Arabs to be resettled and out of the refugee camps.
These days, some revisionist historians imply that there was a master Israeli plan to massacre Arabs and ethnically cleanse the region. But the author replies that at the time, there were "no reports in the world press, including the Arab press and those elements of the Western press openly hostile to Israel, about any such actions of which Israel today stands condemned." Yes, there was a battle at Deir Yassin (prior to the establishment of Israel), but that was not part of some overall plan of this sort. And even the battle of Deir Yassin has been badly misreported by those who wanted to show Israel in a negative light.
The final chapter is on one more myth, namely that of colonial occupation. It includes a discussion of the Israeli West Bank towns, which have been branded by some folks as "illegal" settlements.
I think it ought to be obvious that we humans are better off with truth than with lies, no matter what it is we wish to accomplish, and I think this book is useful in distinguishing between truth and lies. I recommend it.
 Worth your time February 5, 2008
Y. Mann (United States)
45 out of 64 found this review helpful
The book is short, you'll finish it within the day and it'll be worth it. The only reason I'm giving it four stars is because it is so short, I would have liked even more information and more endnotes, especially when the author mentions how much influence the KGB and the Soviet Union had on the PLO, but that's just me. Overall this book reaffirms facts and ideas that I've at times forgotten.
The propaganda campaign against Israel has been in full force for decades and is paying off quite well for the "Palestinian" government and its representatives. The multiple times that Israel has tried to make peace are recounted, only for the PLO and Arafat to reject it out of hand because Israel cannot exist for peace to exist. The idea that Israel is responsible for the refugee problem is discussed, it isn't Israel's fault that over half a dozen Arab nations decided to wage war against them and tell the Palestinians to leave so that they'd have an easier time killing and purging Jews from "their" land. The various hypocritical stances that world and the UN takes in regards to Israeli actions, while at the same time ignoring what's going on in the rest of the world should be nothing new but it helps to be reminded of it.
Thus far Israel is the only nation that has waged a war, won a war, and offered to return land for peace. It is high time that people understand that such a peace is not possible if the current situation in the middle east remains as it is. If the Israelis attack terrorists they are viewed as colonizers bent on genocide, if they offer peace and retreat from conquered territory they are viewed as weak and defeated by the terrorists. Israel has been on the front lines in the "war against terrorism" that the US has just joined, battling double standards and hypocrisy along the way.
A concise history of Arab re-framing of history for political gain February 1, 2008
E. Cohen
34 out of 47 found this review helpful
David Meir-Levi is a serious historian. Most commonly historians write for other historians in a dry manner. David Meir-Levi, in his book History Upside Down, does what others have failed to do -- write in a clearly and concisely, showing how historical records demonstrate the true history of Israel and the Arabs war against the Jews.
There are two victims of Arab Islamo-fascism: the Jews of Israel and the Arabs of Palestine. David Meir-Levi book illustrates how time after time the Arab leadership rejected peace overtures, instead continuing their war against the Jews and Arabs of Israel.
Now is the time for the Palestinian people to recognize that their "leaders" do not want peace and do not want an independent Palestinian state. Now is the time for them to bring about a new Palestinian leadership that rejects the old teaching of hatred and war against the Jews taught in their mosques and on their government television stations.
Likewise, now is the time for the world to recognize that the suffering of Arabs and Jews in the Middle East is a symptom of Arab's war against the Jews.
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