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Finkelstein has accused Dershowitz of “wholesale lifting of source material” from Joan Peters?? history of the settling of Palestine, From Time Immemorial. He points to instances in which Dershowitz cited only primary sources, when it appears he first found the information in Peters?? book...
...first came upon the Mark Twain quote in 1970 (14 years before the Peters?? book was published) when I was doing research for a TV debate about Israel on The Advocates. I have quoted it repeatedly in speeches and debates since then. It would be absurd for me to cite it to Peters rather than to its original source. I also read the Royal Commission report on Palestine (The Peel Report) from cover to cover before Peters published her book, and I rely on it much more than she does. I cite it numerous times, quote it repeatedly...
...absolutely clear that my demographic conclusions are very different from Peters??s. Moreover, her 600-page book is all about 19th and early 20th Century demography. My 264-page book is primarily about the modern conflict in the Middle East, since I expressly argue that there must be some “statute of limitation for ancient grievances?...
Accordingly, the estimates I offer in my book are more general and rough. Moreover neither Finkelstein nor Cockburn take issue with them, as they do with Peters?...
Finally, a word about the Finkelstein chart. By juxtaposing quotes from my book with quotes from Peters??s book, he makes it appear that I am borrowing words from her. But these are all quotes—properly quoted and cited in my book—from third parties. Of course they are similar, or the same. One does not change a quote. And since I did find some of the quotes in Peters??s book, as she found them in others, it should come as no surprise that the ellipses are sometimes similar...