The Case for Israel

Alan Dershowitz

John Wiley & Sons, Jan 6, 2011 - History - 288 pages

The Case for Israel is an ardent defense of Israel's rights, supported by indisputable evidence.

• Presents a passionate look at what Israel's accusers and detractors are saying about this war-torn country.
• Dershowitz accuses those who attack Israel of international bigotry and backs up his argument with hard facts.
• Widely respected as a civil libertarian, legal educator, and defense attorney extraordinaire, Alan Dershowitz has also been a passionate though not uncritical supporter of Israel.

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Contents

• Is Israel a Colonial Imperialist State?: 13
• Did European Jews Displace Palestinians?: 22
• Was the Zionist Movement a Plot to Colonize All of Palestine?: 29
• Was the Balfour Declaration Binding International Law?: 32
• Were the Jews Unwilling to Share Palestine?: 39
• Have the Jews Always Rejected the TwoState Solution?: 45
• Have the Jews Exploited the Holocaust?: 53
• Was the UN Partition Plan Unfair to Palestinians?: 63
• Were Jews a Minority in What Became Israel?: 67
• Has Israels Victimization of the Palestinians Been the Primary Cause of the ArabIsraeli Conflict?: 70
• Was the Israeli War of Independence Expansionist Aggression?: 74
• Did Israel Create the Arab Refugee Problem?: 78
• Did Israel Start the SixDay War?: 91
• Was the Israeli Occupation without Justification?: 95
• Was the Yom Kippur War Israels Fault?: 100
• Has Israel Made Serious Efforts at Peace?: 104
• Was Arafat Right in Turning Down the BarakClinton Peace Proposal?: 117
• Why Have More Palestinians Than Israelis Been Killed?: 123
• Does Israel Torture Palestinians?: 134
• Has Israel Engaged in Genocide against Palestinian Civilians?: 140
• Is Israel a Racist State?: 154
• Is the Israeli Occupation the Cause of All the Problems?: 158
• Has Israel Denied the Palestinians Statehood?: 163
• Is Israels Policy of House Destruction Collective Punishment?: 166
• Is Targeted Assassination of Terrorist Leaders Unlawful?: 173
• Is Settlement in the West Bank and Gaza a Major Barrier to Peace?: 176
• Is Terrorism Merely Part of a Cycle of Violence?: 178
• Is Israel the Prime Human Rights Violator in the World?: 181
• Is There Moral Equivalence between Palestinian Terrorists and Israeli Responses?: 189
• Should Universities Divest from Israel and Boycott Israeli Scholars?: 197
• Are Critics of Israel AntiSemitic?: 208
• Why Do So Many Jews and Even Israelis Side with the Palestinians?: 217
• Israelthe Jew among Nations: 222
• Notes: 245
• Index: 258

Popular passages

Page 96 - Withdrawal of Israel armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict; (ii) Termination of all claims or states of belligerency and respect for and acknowledgment of the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and political independence of every State in the area and their right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force; 2.‎

Page 36 - But in order that this community should have the best prospect of free development and provide a full opportunity for the Jewish people to display its capacities, it is essential that it should know that it is in Palestine as of right and not on sufferance.‎

Page 36 - During the last two or three generations the Jews have recreated in Palestine a community, now numbering 80,000, of whom about one-fourth are farmers or workers upon the land. This community has its own political organs; an elected assembly for the direction of its domestic concerns; elected councils in the towns; and an organisation for the control of its schools.‎

Page 38 - I hope the Arabs may soon be in a position to make the Jews some return for their kindness. We are working together for a reformed and revived NEAR EAST, and our two movements complete one another. The Jewish movement is national and not imperialist. Our movement is national and not imperialist, and there is room in Syria for us both. Indeed I think that neither can be a real success without the other.‎

Page 36 - Palestine as a whole, but the further development of the existing Jewish community with the assistance of Jews in other parts of the world, in order that it may become a center in which the Jewish people as a whole may take, on grounds of religion and race, an interest and a pride. But in order that this community should have the best prospect of free development and provide a full opportunity for the Jewish people to display its capacities, it is essential that it should know that it is in Palestine...‎

Page 36 - ... for the control of its schools. It has its elected Chief Rabbinate and Rabbinical Council for the direction of its religious affairs. Its business is conducted in Hebrew as a vernacular language, and a Hebrew Press serves its needs. It has its distinctive intellectual life and displays considerable economic activity. This community, then, with its town and country population, its political, religious and social organisations, its own language, its own customs, its own life, has in fact "national‎

Page 48 - ... the hope of harmony between the races has proved untenable, that Britain ought either to hand over to Arab rule 400,000 Jews, whose entry into Palestine has been for the most part facilitated by the British Government and approved by the League of Nations; or that, if the Jews should become a majority, a million or so of Arabs should be handed over to their rule. But, while neither race can justly rule all Palestine, we see no reason why, if it were practicable, each race should not rule part...‎

Page 47 - Manifestly the problem cannot be solved by giving either the Arabs or the Jews all they want. The answer to the question " Which of them in the end will govern Palestine? " must surely be " Neither ". We do not think that any fair-minded statesman would suppose, now that the hope of harmony between the races has proved untenable, that Britain ought either to hand over to Arab rule 400,000 Jews, whose entry into Palestine has been for the most part facilitated by the British Government and approved...‎

Page 38 - Arabs, especially the educated among us, look with the deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement. Our deputation here in Paris is fully acquainted with the proposals submitted yesterday by the Zionist organization to the Peace Conference, and we regard them as moderate and proper.‎

Page 97 - The Palestinian Arab people possess the legal right to their homeland and have the right to determine their destiny after achieving the liberation of their country in accordance with their wishes and entirely of their own accord and will.‎

About the author

Alan Dershowitz, the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, is one of the country’s foremost appellate lawyers and a distinguished defender of individual liberties. He appears frequently on television and has contributed articles to the New York Times and other newspapers and magazines. His many books include the #1 New York Times bestseller Chutzpah and The Vanishing American Jew.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Case for Israel
• Author: Alan Dershowitz
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2011
• ISBN: 1118045742, 9781118045749
• Length: 288 pages
• Subjects: History / Middle East / Israel & Palestine