"Yale University Press should be reprimanded for publishing a book that has more in common with the ravings of Alex Jones and other conspiracy theorists than deep objective scholarship. While the authors rely on copious documents, the data has been twisted, churned, reshaped and molded into conclusions and biases that take on a surreal and phantasmagoric life of their own. It becomes quite clear that the authors' personal political agendas take priority over simple presentation of facts. The most delusional of the authors' claims is that the Islamic figure Amin al-Husaini (although historical known to have been a supporter of the Third Reich -- there is nothing new in that!), was the primary architect of Hitler's Final Solution to exterminate Jews. The contents show a clear lack of historical understanding and socio-economic contexts in the climate of pre-Nazi, anti-Semitic sentiments that eventually gave rise to the Nazi regime and have absolutely nothing to do with the Middle East. In the author's eyes, Husaini is portrayed as evil than Hitler and then they would like us to believe that this pro-Nazi anomaly in the Middle East is the fundamental source of anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist outrage among Palestinians and other Islam groups. As another reviewer of this book, Ludwig Watzal in Germany, has observed, "all the political problems of the Middle East are blamed by the authors on the Muslim side, as these could never shake off their Nazi past." Of course, the author's radical Zionist associations outside of this book could never consider for a second Israel's possible role in decades long crises in the Middle East. Would-be buyers of this book should do a little research into the neo-con leanings of its authors Rubin and Schwanitz. Schwanitz is close to the Bush the Second's buddy Daniel Pipes (advisor to Guliani's presidential run in 2008). Both are also indebted to the writings of another darling in the neocon yellow pages for Middle Eastern studies Bernard Lewis"
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