Mark Twain was blinded by the bigoted and racist Orientalist attitudes that were prevalent in Western countries in his day. A pity, too, because I have lost a lot of respect for the man because of that bigoted and racist attitude. There are plenty of books and other writings from people who were far more informed about that part of the world that are not at all in agreement with Twain's account of his experiences there.

Anyone who tries to use Twain's bigoted treatise on the subject of Palestine to try to justify the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and the its stranglehold on Gaza is also a bigot, a racist, and a supremacist.