Finkelstein utfordrer de israelske forestillingene om krigene i 1967 og 1973, og argumenterer mot kjente forskere som Benny Morris og Anita Shapira.

"Norman Finkelstein is one of the most radical and hard-hitting critics of the official Zionist version of the Arab-Israeli conflict and of the historians who support this version. ...The book makes a major contribution to the study of the Arab-Israeli conflict and deserves to be widely read, especially in the Unites States." - Avi Shlaim