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The Case Against Israelargues that Zionism was responsible for the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians and that Israel is responsible for its perpetuation. The argument rests on widely accepted factual claims and impeccable sources. It avoids rhetoric and gratuitous moralizing. There is no attempt to blacken Israel through association with colonialism, imperialism, or racism. Instead, Neumann’s argument emphasizes the fateful Zionist quest for Jewish sovereignty in Palestine. This quest—not the massacres or plans for transfer or other blots on Zionist history—made violence inevitable and compromise impossible. The prospect of Zionists gaining the power of life and death over all inhabitants of Palestine had to be seen by the Palestinians as a mortal threat. They responded accordingly.
The tragic consequences of the quest for sovereignty did not follow all at once, but in two stages. The Zionists established a sovereign Jewish state in 1948. Had they been content with that, peace might have followed the 1967 war, when Israel could have backed the creation of a Palestinian state in the occupied territories. Instead, Zionists pushed to extend Jewish sovereignty, this time through the settler movement. The settlements were a renewed mortal threat to the Palestinians and once again necessitated a violent response. The only solution is for Israel to withdraw, unilaterally, to its 1948 borders.
Michael Neumann was born in 1946, the son of German Jewish refugees. He graduated from Columbia University with degrees in European history and English literature, followed by a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Toronto. He teaches moral and political philosophy at a Canadian university. He has written What’s Left?, a critique of 1960s radicalism, and numerous articles relating to the Israel/Palestine conflict. His academic work includes The Rule of Law: Politicizing Ethics as well as articles on utilitarianism, rationality, and rights.
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THIS ESSAY SEEKS TO LAY OUT A COMPREHENSIVE CASE AGAINST Israel; that is, to argue that Israel is, generally speaking, in the wrong in its conflict with Palestinians. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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To justify his hatred of the Holy Land and his denial of Jewish peoplehood, history and Jewish attachment to the land from time immemorial, Neumann trumpets the fact that he is a Jew. As readers delve into his lauding of Palestinian Arab terrorism and its killing of innocent Jewish civilians in Israel, they will find that he is not a kosher Jew but, in fact, an apostate.
His over 200 page propaganda screed contains such childish dialectics as condemning the state of Israel for existing as an illegitimate ethnic nationalist state while plugging for a Palestinian Arab ethnic nationalist state; denying that history can serve as the basis for the Jewish claim to the Holy Land yet claiming that the Palestinian Arabs own it because they were there first; and rejecting the fact that the Palestinians are Arabs who usurped the Holy Land from the Jews in 637 AD under the imperialist banner of Caliph Umar from Arabia yet admitting that "perhaps the majority" of Jordanian Arabs are Palestinian.
Neumann's refusal to condemn the war crime of collective punishment launched by Palestinian terrorists against Israeli non-combatants leads him into a defensive posture: "I haven't got all the facts on the ground at my disposal (p. 169)." How true in this instance and, indeed, for this pathetic book as a whole.
IS BASED ON TRIVIAL SOURCES WHILE THE WELL DOCUMENTED FACTS OF HISTORY ARE SIDELINED.
THE CASE AGAINST ISRAEL IS NOT ESTABLISHED.IT SEEMS THE AUTHOR HAS DEEP, NEGATIVE, AND PERSONAL REASONS TO WRITE AGAINS HIS OWN PEOPLE.
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