Read any good books on ancient Palestine lately?

Edward C. Davenport, Drum Point

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Argues that Palestinian identity is a Soviet invention and quotes approvingly: "The truth is, Palestine is no more real than Never-Never Land."

Context added by this archive

Included because the letters columns carried the argument in both directions, and this is how the denial reads in its contemporary form.

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"Read any good books on ancient Palestine lately?," The Recorder, 22 November 2019. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2019-002. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2019-002

This record is part of Covering Palestine, an archive of American and Anglophone newspaper clippings about Palestinians, 1812 to 2022. Researched and assembled by Maria Robles.

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