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Seorang lagi sejarawan terkenal Barat adalah Philip K Hitti. Beliau berbangsa Arab dari keluarga Kristian asal dari Lebanon. Hitti terkenal dengan buku beliau "The History of Arab". 

 

Hitti lahir di Beirut, Lebanon. Mendapat pendidikan awal di AUB lulus pada 1908 dan kemudiannya memperolehi phd dari Columbia University pada 1915.

 

Pandangan Hitti mengenai isu Palestine: 

 

In 1944 befor US House committee, Hitti gave testimony in support of the view that there was no historical justification for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. His testimony was reprinted in the Princeton Herald. In response, Albert Einstein and his friend and colleague Erich Kahler jointly replied in the same newspaper with their counter-arguments. Hitti then published a response and Einstein and Kahler concluded the debate in the Princeton Herald with their second response.

 

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Philip Hitti

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