BOOKS: ISRAEL AND JEWS
Jews Against Themselves by Edward Alexander
Who could have imagined that in the heady and optimistic days following Israel’s victory in 1967, the “progressive” and radical Jewish anti-war groupies would turn their attention and venom towards the state of Israel?Israel became the target of libels, bias, calumny, and its unrelenting enemies and oppressors became victims. What were marginal organizations and individuals are now “mainstream” while those who proudly defend Israel citing its pluralist, advanced and civilized society are pushed to the margins. How this came about is described in meticulous detail by Edward Alexander in this essential and eloquent narrative.
Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide by Michael B. Oren
The President Against the Historian Michael Oren’s candid account of Obama’s Mideast policy has won him the right enemies.
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Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947Feb 24, 2015 by Bruce Hoffman
DAVID ISAAC: A REVIEW OF “ANONYMOUS SOLDIERS” BY BRUCE HOFFMAN
By David Isaac a Review
Bruce Hoffman’s Anonymous Soldiers is a deftly written account of the Jewish revolt against the British in 1940s Palestine. Despite its scholarship—it draws heavily on recently declassified British documents—and its significant bulk, it is a page-turner that leaves the reader feeling sorry once the book is finished.
Unlike most accounts of the Jewish underground, this one tells the story from the British point of view, though without taking Britain’s side. It leaves the reader with no doubt that it was the Irgun, and to a lesser extent the much smaller Lehi, that drove the British from Palestine, and not, as the longtime mythology of Israel’s Laborites would have it, David Ben-Gurion’s skillful politicking.
The Four-Front War: From the Holocaust to the Promised Land Hardcover –by William R. Perl (Author), Menachem Begin (Foreword)
William Perl is more than a historian, more than a simple eyewitness. He stands among a few key figures before the war who organized and directed The Action who played a vital role in its highest levels of operation. Using the texts of secret official memoranda, most never before published, his personal diary of the period, as well as notes and dozens of taped interviews, he presents an astounding chronicle of this unknowing aspect of the war.
The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933 by Amos Elon
This is a heartbreaking history of the Jews of Germany, harassed, abased, who contributed so mightily to German culture and science, seeking always to shed pariah status. Even for those who know the outcome was extermination and genocide, this is an absolutely dazzling book by a writer who has become one of Israel’s blackbelt bashers. rsk
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