A Brief History of the Middle East Quotes

“However, the really controversial British decision, fully endorsed by the pro-Jewish Churchill, was the creation of a mandate in Palestine to which Jews could come. This was then as today not accepted by the local Arab population. Their resistance against both British rule and Jewish immigration lasted up until the creation of Israel in 1948.”
― Christopher Catherwood, A Brief History of the Middle East

“Mddle Eastern history is filled with minefields, not because of what actually happened in the past, but because of how people read back the present into the past.”
― Christopher Catherwood, A Brief History of the Middle East