The Case for Israel

Preface to the Paperback Edition.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 Expansionists Aggression?
12. Did Israel Create the Arab Refugee Problem?
13. Did Israel Start the Six-Day War?
14. Was the Israeli Occupation Without Justification.v15. 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 Terrorist 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 SideWith The Palestinians?Conclusion: Israel-the Jew among Nations.Notes.Index.

Alan M. Dershowitz wurde 1938 in Brooklyn, New York geboren. Er ist Anwalt, Stafverteidiger und Professor an der Harvard Law School. Dershowitz verteidigt in Strafverfahren prominente Angeklagte, aber auch Anwaltskollegen und arbeitet für die Hälfte seiner Mandanten auf einer Pro-Bono-Basis. Er war Berater mehrerer Rechts-Kommissionen für amerikanische Präsidenten und hat für seinen Kampf für Bürger- und Menschenrechte zahlreiche Auszeichnungen, Ehrenmitgliedschaften und Preise erhalten. Er ist ein charismatischer Redner, international gefeiert, und hat in dieser Eigenschaft die ganze Welt bereist.
Zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen zu juristischen und Menschenrechtsthemen, wie u.a. "The Vanishing American Jew" und "Sexual McCarthyism: Clinton, Starr, and the Emerging Constitutional Chrisis". Er lebt in Cambridge, Massachusetts.