Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Disturbing imbalance of Arab Jew presentation.

I am surprised by the reviews that see this book as a fair presentaion of the situation between Israel and Palestine. It is so obviously and overwhelmingly slanted in favor of Israel in its sympathies that I could not recommend it. The reasons behind the 'vicious militance' of Islamist Palestinians is never fleshed out in any fair way. A few references here and there but - and I am only part way though the book and reading it only to see if it EVER becomes more objective - the usual cliches are employed (i.e. Islam encourages killing of all infidels) and the Islamists are seen as cruel and evil, killing even their own people. Oh yes, the author occasionally mentions a few evil Israeli deeds, such as Deir Yassin) but without explanation. For a more honest appraisal of the I/P situation, read Yehoshua's "The Lover" or David Grossman's "Yellow Wind".