Criticism
Josef Heller and Yehoshua Porath have stated that Shlaim "misleads his readers with arguments that Israel had missed the opportunity for peace whilst the Arabs are strictly peace seekers".
In a 2012 article in the academic journal Shofar, Shai Afsai criticised Shlaim for repeating a story The bride is beautiful, but she is married to another man for which Afsai could not trace an original source, in his 2001 book The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World.
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