Joan Peters

Joan Peters ( born April 29, 1938) is an American journalist and author.

Life

Peters wrote for CBS, Harper's, Commentary, The New Republic, and The New Leader. She has published numerous articles on Israel and Palestine. The Carter administration, she worked as a Middle East expert at. She is currently a board member of The National Committee on American Foreign Policy, a reasoned among others, Hans Morgenthau think tank.

She became known (especially in the U.S.) for the controversial discussion about her book From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab- Jewish Conflict Over Palestine (since time immemorial: the origins of the Arab- Jewish conflict ), the colonization of Palestine by Arabs treated and Israeli. It became a bestseller in the U.S. and Israel.

In this book, Joan Peters speaks to the Palestinians from each historic home right. Her book, as well as the claims and conclusions presented herein has been repeatedly used as evidence that the Palestinians have no right to their own state. She claims that the area is either uninhabited or inhabited by Israelites and Zionists since time immemorial was - and the Arabs and Palestinians have immigrated later. Most Palestinians had only come into the country from 1917 - lured by the economic boom of the growing Jewish community in Palestine, and they therefore had no historical vested rights to the land. Your allegations culminate in the accusation, Palestinians have collectively forged their documents to obtain possession and settlement rights in Palestine.