If you want to find out more, go here and here.
Whatever the final verdict, it's clear that Peters didn't prove anything with that book.
Peters’ book had many flaws, but her critics did not disprove her contention that the huge increase in the Arab population came not from natural increase, but from in-migration. Her critics depend heavily one official records which I do not accept as conclusive. If 12-20 million Latinos can slip into the USA unrecorded, why do they think that the Ottoman or British bean-counters could keep any better tabs on the movements of the Arabs of the region?
I agree with your assessment of the book. But I will say that she did great work on two subjects. The UNRWA and the documentation she provides for the onrush of “illegal” migrants from surrounding Arab countries into Palestine.
>>That is one of the most controversial and disputed history books of the last generation.
>>If you want to find out more, go here and here.
Many thanks.
Did Peters or anyone else answer Porath or Blair?