hilarious

Seth Ackerman sia at nyc.rr.com
Thu Feb 7 00:33:12 PST 2002


An Amazon.com reader wrote a hilarious negative online review of Fouad Ajami's book "The Arab Predicament." The reader thought it was "very disappointing," displaying the "selective ignorance that has plagued many Arab accounts of the Middle East for years."

Among the reviewer's complaints: Ajami refers to Hezbollah as the "Party of God" in order "to deflect the reader's attention away from the true nature of this organization." (Hezbollah means "Party of God" in Arabic.)

And this is the clincher: "He refuses to call the Yom Kippur War by its accepted name."

Seth



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