If you have aphasia, going to the store is a nightmare. If you have to ask for something, if you have to make change, clerks look at you like you've got some mental problem, but you are perfectly rational. They're the same inside. That's what's so frustrating. They know what they want to say, but they just can't get it out.
"Joan Sydney Peters", the family name from an earlier marriage used by Joan Caro, was a former CBS news producer of documentaries and an author, best known for a number of theses on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, put forward in her controversial book From Time Immemorial, published in 1984, in which she argued that the Palestinians, as opposed to the Jews, are largely not indigenous to the area and therefore do not have a claim to the territory. The book was argued to be a fraud, later on, by Norman Finkelstein. Finkelstein's position was supported by many other scholars like Noam Chomsky, Edward Said and Yehoshua Porath calling the book "ludicrous", "worthless" and a "forgery", while other scholars like Barbara W. Tuchman and Daniel Pipes accepted the book's central thesis.
Peters wrote in the 1970s and early 1980s for magazines such as Harper's, Commentary Magazine/Commentary, The New Republic, and The New Leader, and helped create a series of TV news documentaries for CBS in 1973 regarding the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and provided commentary on the subject for PBS. Her dedication to the cause of Israel was triggered by a visit in the 1970s to the Soviet Union, where officials treated her with suspicion.
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