The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Case for Israel
Book Review: Funny
Summary: 1 Stars
This book makes me laugh so hard, I cry tears. Dershowitz is truly a funny guy.Book Review: GRADE of "F' for SCHOLARSHIP , "F" for TRUTH , and "F- for PLAGARISM
Summary: 1 Stars
This book written by "whomever," also gets an F- for absurd misrepresentations, including 'who' wrote it!? How do you reward a book of extreme falsehoods and distorted facts within the book, and the mystery of who wrote it? How does one reward a book like this filled with deceit and lies in "present" America? You give the person behind a false book like this a lifetime tenure at Harvard Law School. Welcome to "America today."!!! This book is not worth the read; just too much "nonsense." For truth and 'REAL' scholarship, why not spend your reading time with substative matter, read: "THE ISRAEL LOBBY" AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY," By John J. Mearshiemer and Stephen M. Walt.Book Review: Good but not great....
Summary: 2 Stars
I read this book years ago and it seemed then, and now, to be a "sitting on the fence" perspective. Much of the book was taken from a much better and more documented work by a Liberal Democrat from the Carter Administration named Joan Peters: "From Time Immemorial". However, it must be noted, in today's ever dumbed down anti-Israel, a-historical, pro-"Palestinian" mythological religio-political realpolitik schema; Peter's book would be considered "Right Wing" extremism. I state this ill thought out and overly promulgated label for Ms. Peters work because it outlines the factually correct, although politically incorrect, history of Israel, Palestine in particular and the role of Pan-Arabism and Islam itself in, not only the Arab-Israel/Jewish conflict but also within the historical make up of the Middle East of non-Muslims living under the vale of Islam. Bat Ye'or is another author that is, and must be, considered an authority on the subject of "dhimmitude" as well as the history and of the Islamic Jihad expansionism into the Levant, fall of Constantinople in 1453 and ending of the Byzantine Christian Empire,Egypt,Mesopotamia,Persia,Hindustan,the Maghrab and Spain. Her works: "The Dhimmi", "The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam: From Jihad to Dhimmitude : Seventh-Twentieth Century" outline in detail the base of Islamic history as it relates to the fall, or "submitting" of "Dar al-Harb" from the 7th century, and with her book "Eurabia", today. I too must suggest the works of both Ibn Warraq, Walid Shoebat and Robert Spencer to outline the highly misunderstood theo-political schema and jurisprudence of Islam as a political and legal construct as it relates to Islamic history itself. Another very important author I must strongly recommend is that of Andrew Bostom whose works: "Legacy of Jihad" and "Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism" which outlines both the history and theo-political jurisprudence of the Islamic pillar: Jihad especially as it relates to Islam's expansion into numerous non-Islamic lands, largely extinguishing peoples, cultures, languages and faiths in its wake. Bostom's work on Islamic Antisemitism outlines the base of Jew hatred - and hatred and distrust of the "infidel" in general - via the use of Islamic texts themselves backed by the interpretation of Islam's greatest Imam. The last author I strongly recommend, has nothing specifically related to the Arab-Israel conflict, but does provide the - highly comparable - base for the Arab-Hindu conflict which one never considers, never heard of and is also highly misunderstood: Kishori Saran Lal - "Legacy of Muslim Rule in India", "Theory and Practice of a Muslim State in India" and "Muslim Slave System in Medieval India" amongst many other fabulously documented works.
I would strongly too recommend the reader find a base in Jewish History as it specifically relates to the Holocaust to understand that by the 1930's a Jewish State in Jewish Mandated Palestine was well underway and not an outcome of the Holocaust although it did produce a major role in post WW2 political history and relations with the Arabs who, as past and future holds, in partnership with the Nazis, Fascists and the Ustashi in Croatia. Some very worthy books include: "While Six Million Died", "Genocide in Satellite Croatia", "The Transfer Agreement", "Years of Wrath Days of Glory", "Perfidy" and even "They Must Go" by the so-called "radical rabbi" Meir Kahane. The base laid within the works of the aforementioned authors which allows for any to truly understand both the religious, historical and political aspect of Jewish history, Islamic history and the modern re-birth - and problems therein - of the Modern State of Israel. In closing, all of the aforementioned are truly more worthy than Dershy's "Case" as he tends to jump comparatively speaking between the political apology via reparations for blacks in America, which no white, asian, jew, arab, hispanic or black themselves had anything whatsoever dealings with catering to this mythological non-entity known, for purely political purposes as "The Palestinian People". Dershy neglects to state, really anything of the history of the Arab Muslims living in the Levant - Palestine - especially never attending to the very poignant fact Palestine was never a country, state or nation throughout the entirety of this Earth's long history. Ergo any "nationality" is purely a-historical. A myth predicated on a lie. Some additional books of high importance are "The Arab Mind", "The Arab Lobby", "Myths and Facts", "Battleground", "The Oslo Syndrome", "Fabricating Israel History", "History Upside Down", "The Legal Foundation and Borders of Israel Under International Law", "The Nazi Connection" and lastly both "A History of the Jews" and "Modern Times" by Paul Johnson. If you get this book for 25 cents at a book fair, fabulous but don't waste your hard earned. Best...
Book Review: Great Primer on Refuting Common Fallacies Against Israel
Summary: 5 Stars
Did European Jews displace Palestinians in the land that is now called Israel? Or did European Jews acquire the land from absentee landlords or immigrate to uninhabited lands in the region?
Have the Jews Always Rejected a Two-State Solution? Or was such a solution favorably proposed from the early stages of the Zionist movement in the Chaim-Weizmann Agreement to the recent Barak-Clinton peace proposal?
Did Israel create the Arab refugee problem? Or does the fact that Egypt and Jordan refuse to admit Palestinian refugees for political purposes have something to do with their refugee status?
Did Israel start the Six-Day War in 1967? Or was this war fought as a courageous act of self-defense against five armed nations, all of whom wanted nothing less than the total destruction of Israel.
This book contains many other common charges against Israel along with a compelling argument against each charge. Although Alan Dershowitz is not the most objective party on this matter, he still has compiled a timely and persuasive defense of Israel. This book is written in a question and answer format that makes it an excellent resource.
Although this certainly is not the most comprehensive source for a defense of Israel, it is an excellent place to start for an individual seeking to read about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a pro-Israeli perspective.
Book Review: Great argument and facts.
Summary: 5 Stars
Alan Dershowitz has compiled a great law case for the defense of Israel amid all the anti-Isaeli sentiment, most of which is blind to the facts. He refutes such so called "academics" as Noam Chomsky and Edward Said as Dershowitz exposes and then counters thier lies and distortions of the real facts. I recomend this book to anyone, regardless of how they feel on the subject.