... the most revealing study of the historical background of the conflict and the current peace agreement.
- Noam Chomsky, Guardian
Norman Finkelstein is one of the most radical and hard-hitting critics of the official Zionist version of the Arab-Israeli conflict and of the historians who support this version ... The book makes a major contribution to the study of the Arab-Israeli conflict which deserves to be widely read, especially in the United States.
- Avi Shlaim,
Anyone interested in seeing justice brought to the Middle East must read this book.
- Charles Glass,
... this thoroughly documented book is guaranteed to stimulate and provoke. It will be required reading in the continuing war of the historians.
- William Quandt, Foreign Affairs
... a thought-provoking work which calls into question many of the accepted 'truths' associated with the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Middle East Journal
... both an impressive analysis of Zionist ideology and a searing but scholarly indictment of Israel's treatment of the Arabs since 1948.
London Review of Books