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I've been thinking about how best to respond to this. I could go and pull out sightations backing them up with actual news reports from mainstream Western and Jewish media, but I'm to lazy. I could ask you if there is any one particular with either book that you disagree with. So far you have focused primarily on Ralph Schoenman's work, and I have conceeded that 'some' of his work in that past has been problematic, although I have yet to see anything specificly wrong with this particular selection. However, I would challenge, (maybe that is to strong of a word) you to find anything wrong with the work of Robert Friedman.
As for historical fact, lets get the facts straight. Historical 'facts' are decided upon by the winners or ruling class. ie.
Columbus discovered America. Hmmm, but now we know that Columbus re-discovered America because the Vikings had already established colonies here nearly 400 years before. But wait, there were already millions of people living here, how can you discover something that millions of people already know about? What we normally read in the mainstream American media is the 'facts' from a particular point of view. They are 'true' from this perspective. What I am asking people to do is to look at things from a different perspective, that of the Arabs in the Tri-Continental Hub. From their perspective the 'history' portrayed in these books is true. If you want to understand why things are the way that they are you have to see both sides.
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