Because there is never ever was a "Palestine" nor a "Palestinian people," those who promote the notion lies of a homeland where the "Palestinians" lived from "time immemorial," must create a faux-history to cloak their claims in a mantle of respectability and credibility. What easier than simply to steal Israel’s history, thereby gaining the added dividend of arguing that the Jewish state shouldn’t exist because it never did? Meir Levi shows how a movement of Arab propagandists, supported by Western “revisionist” archaeologists, anthropologists, and Biblical scholars, is engaging in exactly such a fraud by systematically “revising” the history of the Middle east. He says that this “historical cleansing” is the intellectual equivalent of genocide.