Editing 1948 Arab–Israeli War (section)

==== In the United States ====
The American journalist [[Joan Peters|Joan Peters']] 1984 book ''[[From Time Immemorial]]'' had a massive impact on how 1948 was understood in popular and political narratives in the United States.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Said |first=Edward W. |date=1986-01-01 |title=The Joan Peters Case*: From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine, by Joan Peters |journal=Journal of Palestine Studies |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=144–150 |doi=10.2307/2536835 |issn=0377-919X |jstor=2536835}}</ref><ref>[[Norman Finkelstein|Finkelstein, N. G.]] 1988. "Disinformation and the Palestine Question: The Not-So-Strange Case of Joan Peters's From Time Immemorial". In ''Blaming the Victims, Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question'', ed. E. W. Said and C. Hitchens, pp. 33–69. London: [[Verso Books|Verso]].</ref>

[[Ilan Pappé]] asserts the neo-Zionist narrative was pushed in the United States most passionately by [[Michael Walzer]], and by [[Anita Shapira]] and [[Derek Penslar]] with their 2003 ''Israeli Historical Revisionism: From Left to Right.<ref name="Pappe-2009" />''