![Man-made Israel [Book Review]](https://epalestine.ps/sambahour/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/TheInventionofAncientIsrael-BOOKCOVER-723681-1.jpg)
by Sam Bahour | July 31, 2020 | Books, Sam's Writings
What do you get when you mix ten decades of biblical studies, an Old Testament, the ideology of Zionism, and a tablespoon of politically motivated archaeology, all mixed in a bowl of historical evidence? Author Keith W. Whitelam undertook this recipe and reports on the results in The Invention of Ancient Israel: The Silencing of Palestinian History”. The short answer to the question is that one is left with a toxic modern state, hell-bent on crafting an umbilical cord between itself and a mythical 2000-year old past. In other words, the State of Israel.
by Sam Bahour | October 20, 2012 | Sam's Writings
by Sam Bahour | December 20, 2011 | Sam's Writings
![“Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Disappearing Landscape” by Raja Shehadeh [Book Review]](https://epalestine.ps/sambahour/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/palestinian-walks-raja-shehadeh.jpg)
by James Zogby | July 19, 2008 | Books
The simple things in life, like one’s relation to a landscape, are what are being effaced by the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Raja Shehadeh is one of Palestine’s leading writers. He is also a lawyer and the founder of the pioneering Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq. “Raja Shehadeh’s Palestinian Walks provides a rare historical insight into the tragic changes taking place in Palestine.” – Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
