11 of 14 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Makes Sense to Me, Jun 8 2009
By Doctor S. "MD" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Adolf Hitler - Founder of Israel: Israel in War - With Jews (Paperback)
If all the negative reviewers would stop being outraged and slandering this man's integrity for a minute or two and read the book, they would have a hard time denying the indirect but crucial role the Holocaust played in the foundation of Israel. From now on, Israelis have something to point at and say "We can't let THAT happen again!!! Now give us more nukes..." or the good ol' "If you don't agree with us you're as bad as Hitler!!!". Extremely useful and effective diplomatic tools.
32 of 45 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
The best book about 20th Century Europe, Israel and WWII., Feb 17 2000
By Adam Kohen - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Adolf Hitler - Founder of Israel: Israel in War - With Jews (Paperback)
I have read the very controversial and hard to "swallow" "Adolf Hitler - Founder of Israel: Israel in War With Jews", and despite its seemingly offensive title, I strongly recommend this book. Foremost, I recommend this book to the Holocaust survivors and their families who seek the peace of mind about the horrors of the past and why they happened to them and their loved ones. Next, I recommend this book to all those who seek the truth (Kardel's motivating factor for writing it in the first place), and to all others who wonder why World War II has never ended but still 55 years later rages on in the Middle East and elsewhere. And most importantly, why in the process so many millions of us and even more of others have perished and continue to perish. In other words, borrowing from the book's subtitle, why ever since its inception thousands of years ago Israel has been in War with Jews and the rest of Humanity.
20 of 33 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
We cannot afford to limit our understanding, Aug 4 2004
By Cathleen M. Walker "geminiwalker" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Adolf Hitler - Founder of Israel: Israel in War - With Jews (Paperback)
This book is a difficult read and a bit hard to follow. I suspect this is because it has been translated from German by someone who doesn't quite understand all the nuances of the English language. It doesn't help that amazon.com has a typo in the title. It is Adolf Hitler - FOUNDER of Israel: Israel in War with Jews.
That said, it is also a difficult read because of what it has to say. For this reason, it also becomes an essential read, especially today. This book was copyrighted in 1974. Here we are, in 2004, and Israel is as disruptive as ever. I do not, in this statement, equate Israel with Jews (which would render me anti-Semitic, which I am so not), although the confusion is understandable. It only becomes more confusing the more one tries to understand it. All Jews are not Zionists. All Zionists are not Jews. And some ZIonists were NaZIs.
The important point being, most of us have had the history of Israel taught to us in simplified fashion, a basic "run through" that supposedly suffices to tell us that we know "enough" about it to get through the day. Black and white, good and evil, perpetrators and victims.
Until, that is, we start having to send American (and other) sons and daughters to the Middle East to intervene in a long-standing an ongoing, historical battle that the history of Israel plays a significant part in. While this book can not address current times, it does address the roots in a way that allows us to understand better how history is unfolding as we speak. We cannot afford to limit our understanding of these issues to what the mass media chooses to tell us, or what we learn in the brief time that we are in school. Far too much is at stake.
Other books make the case about how involved Israel is in American politics. That alone makes this book essential reading.