{"id":3493,"date":"2020-07-31T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-02-24T20:03:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:03:05","slug":"man-made-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2020\/07\/man-made-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Man-made Israel [Book Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">Erasure of Palestinian history has become an obsession<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/TheInventionofAncientIsrael-BOOKCOVER-723681-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"413\" height=\"648\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/ePalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/TheInventionofAncientIsrael-BOOKCOVER-723681-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3494\" style=\"width:358px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Author Keith W. Whitelam undertook this recipe and reports on the results in <em>The Invention of Ancient Israel: The Silencing of Palestinian History.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Read the full review<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In English:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@sbahour\/man-made-israel-book-review-d13dc808d057?sk=c1998507ba12284670de929e309c80e7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Medium<\/a> (Medium shortlink: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/Man-made-Israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bit.ly\/Man-made-Israel<\/a>) or Mondoweiss:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-wp-embed is-provider-mondoweiss wp-block-embed-mondoweiss\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"7eUaqMIvBF\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2020\/07\/man-made-israel-and-the-obsessive-erasure-of-palestinian-history\/\">Man-made Israel (and the obsessive erasure of Palestinian history)<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Man-made Israel (and the obsessive erasure of Palestinian history)&#8221; &#8212; Mondoweiss\" src=\"https:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2020\/07\/man-made-israel-and-the-obsessive-erasure-of-palestinian-history\/embed\/#?secret=vcTzWkHG54#?secret=7eUaqMIvBF\" data-secret=\"7eUaqMIvBF\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 <em>The Invention of Ancient Israel: The Silencing of Palestinian History\u201d.<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[948,942],"tags":[1241,219,610,1243,20,220,1237,1367,1089,1297,1238,547,188,892,531,1236,1239,1242,1036,1240,1235],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-3493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-sams-writings","tag-adam-raz","tag-ancient-israel","tag-archeology","tag-basem-l-raad","tag-bible","tag-bible-study","tag-blaming-the-victims-spurious-scholarship-and-the-palestinian-question-book","tag-christian-evangelicals-and-evangelical-christianity","tag-edward-said","tag-erasure-of-palestinian-history","tag-golda-meir","tag-hidden-histories","tag-history","tag-holy-land","tag-ilan-pappe","tag-keith-w-whitelam","tag-masada","tag-noa-landau","tag-palestinian-historical-archives","tag-the-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestine-book","tag-the-invention-of-ancient-israel-the-silencing-of-palestinian-history-book"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sam Bahour<\/strong> is a Palestinian-American business consultant, writer, and commentator based in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He is the principal of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aim.ps\/\">Applied Information Management (AIM)<\/a>, a consultancy specializing in business development and startup advisory services.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bahour played a foundational role in establishing two of Palestine\u2019s publicly traded companies: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He co-founded Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy (A4VPE), of which he is now an emeritus member, and served as an independent director on the board of Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. from 2004 to 2025. He currently serves on the board of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justvision.org\/\">Just Vision<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mas.ps\">The Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS)<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He frequently gives talks to delegations visiting Palestine on the subjects of Palestine\u2019s political economy, Palestinian Politics 101, and a general orientation to the state of affairs under Israeli military occupation.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A prolific writer on Palestinian affairs, Bahour has been published in major international outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, Haaretz, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera America, Le Monde diplomatique, Al-Monitor, +972 Magazine, The Hill, and Arab News. He has appeared as a commentator on NPR, CNN, BBC, and other broadcast media.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bahour is the co-editor of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Homeland-Oral-Histories-Palestine-Palestinians\/dp\/1566561329\/ref=la_B00HBW71SO_1_1\">Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993) and was profiled in the bestselling anthology <em><a href=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2017\/06\/epalestine-kingdom-of-olives-and-ash\/\">Kingdom of Olives and Ash<\/a><\/em>, edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, in a chapter authored by Chabon titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/lithub.com\/the-tallest-man-in-ramallah\/\">The Tallest Man in Ramallah<\/a>.\u201d He holds an Associate\u2019s and Bachelor\u2019s degree in Computer Technology from Youngstown State University, and a Kellogg-Recanati International Executive MBA \u2014 a joint program of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Recanati Business School at Tel Aviv University.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He tweets at <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SamBahour\">@SamBahour<\/a>, blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epalestine.ps\">www.epalestine.ps<\/a>, and may be reached at sbahour[AT]gmail[DOT]com.<\/p>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3493"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6904,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions\/6904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3493"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}