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The Case for Israel

by Alan Dershowitz

Pages: 264

Contributors: Alan Dershowitz

Publisher: Wiley

Place of Publication: Hoboken, NJ

Publication Year: 2003

Subjects: Arab-Israeli Conflict,Zionism,Jews--Palestine--History,Jews--Colonization--Palestine,Refugees, Jewish--Palestine--History,Zionists--Palestine--History,Israel--History

Table of Contents

Title Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: Is Israel a Colonial, Imperialist State?

2: Did European Jews Displace Palestinians?

3: Was the Zionist Movement a Plot to Colonize All of Palestine?

4: Was the Balfour Declaration Binding International Law?

5: Were the Jews Unwilling to Share Palestine?

6: Have the Jews Always Rejected the Two-State Solution?

7: Have the Jews Exploited the Holocaust?

8: Was the U.N. Partition Plan Unfair to Palestinians?

9: Were Jews a Minority in What Became Israel?

10: Has Israel's Victimization of the Palestinians Been the Primary Cause of the Arab—israeli Conflict?

11: Was the Israeli War of Independence Expansionist Aggression?

12: Did Israel Create the Arab Refugee Problem?

13: Did Israel Start the Six-Day War?

14: Was the Israeli Occupation Without Justification?

15: Was the Yom Kippur War Israel's Fault?

16: Has Israel Made Serious Efforts at Peace?

17: Was Arafat Right in Turning Down the Barak—clinton Peace Proposal?

18: Why Have More Palestinians Than Israelis Been Killed?

19: Does Israel Torture Palestinians?

20: Has Israel Engaged in Genocide Against Palestinian Civilians?

21: Is Israel a Racist State?

22: Is the Israeli Occupation the Cause of All the Problems?

23: Has Israel Denied the Palestinians Statehood?

24: Is Israel's Policy of House Destruction Collective Punishment?

25: Is Targeted Assassination of Terrorist Leaders Unlawful?

26: Is Settlement in the West Bank and Gaza a Major Barrier to Peace?

27: Is Terrorism Merely Part of a Cycle of Violence?

28: Is Israel the Prime Human Rights Violator in the World?

29: Is There Moral Equivalence Between Palestinian Terrorists and Israeli Responses?

30: Should Universities Divest from Israel and Boycott Israeli Scholars?

31: Are Critics of Israel Anti-Semitic?

32: Why Do So Many Jews and Even Israelis Side with the Palestinians?

Conclusion: Israel—the Jew Among Nations

Notes

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