Richard Bernstein characterized it as "a readable, scholarly re-examination of a long and complicated Middle Eastern history ... The main purpose of this very detailed and broad-shouldered history is to revise many of the standard interpretations that have been given to Middle Eastern history over the last two centuries.
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The political scientist Ian Lustick said Karsh's writing in Fabricating Israeli History was malevolent and his analysis, erratic and sloppy.
Efraim Karsh (2000) Fabricating Israeli History: The new Historians Routledge ISBN 0-7146-5011-0
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Other historians such as Efraim Karsh, Avraham Sela, Moshe Efrat, Ian J. Bickerton, Carla L. Klausner, and Howard Sachar share this analysis.