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The Case for Israel is an ardent defense of Israel's rights, supported by indisputable evidence.
John Wiley & Sons
September 2004
On Sale: August 25, 2004
288 pages ISBN: 0471679526 EAN: 9780471679523 Trade Size (reprint)
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Even as Israel boldly offers statehood to Palestinians in
exchange for an enduring peace, many academics and
activists--primarily but not exclusively from the hard
left--have gone on the attack against Israel, deriding it as
an imperialist power bent on oppressing the Palestinians. On
prominent campuses across the United States and throughout
the world, petitions circulate asking universities to divest
holdings in Israel and to boycott Israeli Jews without
regard to their individual views. Virulent opponents of
Israel have accused that democracy of unspeakable human
rights abuses, while many who believe otherwise remain
silent. Now, in this impassioned and closely argued book,
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz sets the record
straight and explains why Israel, while not perfect, is in
fact the sole outpost of liberty and democracy in the Middle
East--a country that has earned the right to exist within
secure boundaries and defend itself. Drawing on
scrupulous, unbiased research and his peerless skills as an
advocate, Dershowitz conclusively refutes thirty-two
separate slurs, slanders, and misrepresentations that have
been hurled at Israel in recent years, including:
- Israel is a colonial, imperialist
state
- The Jews have always rejected the
two-state solution
- The Jews have exploited the
Holocaust
- Israel's victimization of the
Palestinians has been the primary cause of the Arab-Israeli
conflict
- Israel created the Arab refugee
problem
- Israel tortures Palestinians
- Israel's targeted assassinations of terrorist leaders
are unlawful
- Israel is the "prime" human rights
violator in the world
- Universities should
divest from Israel and boycott Israeli scholars
In demolishing these charges, Dershowitz documents how
Israel was founded with the blessing of the United
Nations--and how it was Arabs, not Israelis, who initiated
the cycle of violence that still persists today.
He proves that the division of Palestine between Israel and
the Palestinians has long been accepted by Israel and
rejected by most Arabs. He demonstrates why Israeli actions
in the West Bank and Gaza are not motivated by territorial
ambitions, but by the very real sense that Israel is under
attack. And he shows how critics of Israel gloss over the
terrorism, human rights abuses, and antidemocratic
ideologies of other regimes in the region, substituting
bigotry and veiled anti-Semitism for objective analysis.
Well reasoned, hard-hitting, and provocative, The Case for
Israel is essential reading for anyone who cares about
Israel and the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
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