Blaming the Victims demonstrates with cold precision how the consistent denial of truth about the Palestinians by governments and the media in the West has led to the current impasse in Middle East politics. Controversial, forceful and above all honest it attempts to redress a sustained crime against historical truth in order to make a more rational political future in Palestine possible.With a new introduction by Edward Said and Christopher Hitchens and contributions by Norman G. Finkelstein, Peretz Kidron, Noam Chomsky, G.W. Bowerstock, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Rashid Khalidi, Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Muhammad Hallaj and Elia Zureik. Author Biography: Edward Said is Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, New York. He is author of Orientalism, Culture and Imperialism, After the Last Sky, and End of the Peace Process. Christopher Hitchens lives in Washington DC and writes columns for Vanity Fair and The Nation. He is the author of, amongst many other books, The Missionary Position, No One Left to Lie To, and Unacknowledged Legislation, all published by Verso.