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The Case for Israel

by Alan Dershowitz. 264 pgs.

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

	Acknowledgments	vii
	Introduction	1
1	Is Israel a Colonial, Imperialist State?	13
2	Did European Jews Displace Palestinians?	22
3	Was the Zionist Movement a Plot to Colonize All of Palestine?	29
4	Was the Balfour Declaration Binding International Law?	32
5	Were the Jews Unwilling to Share Palestine?	39
6	Have the Jews Always Rejected the Two-State Solution?	45
7	Have the Jews Exploited the Holocaust?	53
8	Was the U.N. Partition Plan Unfair to Palestinians?	63
9	Were Jews a Minority in What Became Israel?	67
10	Has Israel's Victimization of the Palestinians Been the Primary Cause of the Arab—Israeli Conflict?	70
11	Was the Israeli War of Independence Expansionist Aggression?	74
12	Did Israel Create the Arab Refugee Problem?	78
13	Did Israel Start the Six-Day War?	91
14	Was the Israeli Occupation without Justification?	95
15	Was the Yom Kippur War Israel's Fault?	100
16	Has Israel Made Serious Efforts at Peace?	104
17	Was Arafat Right in Turning Down the Barak—Clinton Peace Proposal?	117
18	Why Have More Palestinians Than Israelis Been Killed?	123
19	Does Israel Torture Palestinians?	134
20	Has Israel Engaged in Genocide against Palestinian Civilians?	140
21	Is Israel a Racist State?	154
22	Is the Israeli Occupation the Cause of All the Problems?	158
23	Has Israel Denied the Palestinians Statehood?	163
24	Is Israel's Policy of House Destruction Collective Punishment?	166
25	Is Targeted Assassination of Terrorist Leaders Unlawful?	173
26	Is Settlement in the West Bank and Gaza a Major Barrier to Peace?	176
27	Is Terrorism Merely Part of a Cycle of Violence?	178
28	Is Israel the Prime Human Rights Violator in the World?	181
29	Is There Moral Equivalence between Palestinian Terrorists and Israeli Responses?	189
30	Should Universities Divest from Israel and Boycott Israeli Scholars?	197
31	Are Critics of Israel Anti-Semitic?	208
32	Why Do So Many Jews and Even Israelis Side with the Palestinians?	217
	Conclusion: Israel—the Jew among Nations	222
	Notes	245
	Index	258

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