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by Alan Dershowitz (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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The New York Times–bestselling author “has focused his internationally recognized expertise and clarity of vision on . . . this evolving terrorist tactic” (Benjamin Netanyahu).
At a time when Israel is under persistent attack—on the battlefield, by international organizations, and in the court of public opinion—Alan Dershowitz presents a powerful case for Israel’s just war against terrorism.
In the spirit of his international bestseller, The Case for Israel, Dershowitz shows why Israel’s struggle against Hamas is a fight not only to protect its own citizens, but for all democracies. The nation-state of the Jewish people is providing a model for all who are threatened by terrorist groups—such as ISIS, al-Qaeda, and Boko Haram. Having himself been in one of the Hamas terror tunnels, Dershowitz explains why Israel had no choice but to send in ground troops to protect its civilians against Hamas death squads.
Dershowitz wrote this book to warn the world that unless Hamas’s strategy of building terror tunnels and firing rockets from behind human shields is denounced and stopped—by the international community, the media, the academy, and good people of all religions, ethnicities, and nationalities—it will be coming soon “to a theater near you.”
Covering all the hot-button issues—from the BDS movement, to the rise of anti-Semitism, to the charge of war crimes, to the prospects of peace—Terror Tunnels: The Case for Israel’s Just War Against Hamas is a must-read for all who care about Israel, peace in the Mideast, human rights, and fairness.
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The recent operation in Gaza demonstrated once again the lengths to which Hamas terrorists will go to murder innocent Israeli civilians. Not satisfied with suicide bombings and rocket attacks on Israeli cities, Hamas built an extensive network of terror tunnels for the purpose of dispatching death squads into Israel. In Terror Tunnels, Alan Dershowitz has focused his internationally recognized expertise and clarity of vision on addressing this evolving terrorist tactic. Dershowitz’s conclusion is unequivocal: Israel has both the right and the obligation to defend itself against subterranean terrorist attacks. (Benjamin Netanyahu Endorsement from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu)
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Professor Alan M. Dershowitz of Harvard Law School was described by Newsweek as “the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual rights.” Italian newspaper Oggi called him “the best-known criminal lawyer in the world,” and The Forward named him “Israel’s single most visible defender―the Jewish state’s lead attorney in the court of public opinion.”
Born in Brooklyn, he was appointed to the Harvard Law School faculty at age 25 and became a full professor at age 28, the youngest in the school’s history. He has been a consultant to several presidential commissions, and has advised presidents, United Nations officials, prime ministers, governors, senators, and members of Congress. More than a million people have heard him lecture around the world. He is currently the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard.
Dershowitz is the author of 30 non-fiction works and two novels. More than a million of his books have been sold worldwide, in more than a dozen different languages. His recent titles include the bestseller The Case For Israel, Rights From Wrong, The Case For Peace, The Case For Moral Clarity: Israel, Hamas and Gaza, and his autobiography Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law.
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ASIN : B07NMHYNTR
Publisher : RosettaBooks (September 10, 2014)
Publication date : September 10, 2014
Language : English
File size : 2062 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
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Print length : 253 pagesBest Sellers Rank: #555,409 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)#197 in Terrorism (Kindle Store)
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Alan M. Dershowitz
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ is a Brooklyn native who has been called 'the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer' and one of its 'most distinguished defenders of individual rights,' 'the best-known criminal lawyer in the world,' 'the top lawyer of last resort,' and 'America's most public Jewish defender.' He is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Dershowitz, a graduate of Brooklyn College and Yale Law School, joined the Harvard Law School faculty at age 25 after clerking for Judge David Bazelon and Justice Arthur Goldberg. While he is known for defending clients such as Anatoly Sharansky, Claus von B'low, O.J. Simpson, Michael Milken and Mike Tyson, he continues to represent numerous indigent defendants and takes half of his cases pro bono. Dershowitz is the author of 20 works of fiction and non-fiction, including 6 bestsellers. His writing has been praised by Truman Capote, Saul Bellow, David Mamet, William Styron, Aharon Appelfeld, A.B. Yehoshua and Elie Wiesel. More than a million of his books have been sold worldwide, in numerous languages, and more than a million people have heard him lecture around the world. His most recent nonfiction titles are The Case For Peace: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Can be Resolved (August 2005, Wiley); Rights From Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights (November 2004, Basic Books), The Case for Israel (September 2003, Wiley), America Declares Independence, Why Terrorism Works, Shouting Fire, Letters to a Young Lawyer, Supreme Injustice, and The Genesis of Justice. His novels include The Advocate's Devil and Just Revenge. Dershowitz is also the author of The Vanishing American Jew, The Abuse Excuse, Reasonable Doubts, Chutzpah (a #1 bestseller), Reversal of Fortune (which was made into an Academy Award-winning film), Sexual McCarthyism and The Best Defense.
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Francoise
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential reading. Seminal. Keep it closeReviewed in the United States on November 8, 2023
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Hands-down the absolute best book on the subject. Seminal. This temporary price reduction is a magnanimous gesture on the part of the author and I think it’s absolutely beautiful.
Disabuse yourself of the well cultivated ignorance, cultivated by the biased media for the purpose of exploiting it.
Read this one slim volume in just two settings and you will know more than 99% of the blowhard bloviators who bang on and on about matters of which they clearly know nothing.
Get educated by one of the finest legal minds alive today. This is not as complicated as you may think it is.
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Joel B. Pollak
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent anthology! Worth buying for the Dugard debate alone.Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2014
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Alan Dershowitz continues his record of strong advocacy for Israel--and for lasting peace--with "Terror Tunnels." The book brings together many of the columns that Dershowitz published in print and online during the war. It also includes, for context, many of the columns he wrote in the years leading up to the war, from the end of the 2008-9 conflict, through the Goldstone Report controversy, and up to the present.
Dershowitz demonstrates conclusively that Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza was justified and its conduct exemplary. He allows Israel's opponents a chance to have their say: in one of the most remarkable parts of the book, he reprints a transcript of his recent debate with leading anti-Israel activist John Dugard. Undoubtedly, Dugard's attacks are the best possible representation of the anti-Israel/BDS movement. For all that, they are also intellectually vacuous, legally unsound, and basically uninformed on fundamental facts about the conflict.
The first third of the book reprises Dershowitz's writings about the Goldstone Report. Those familiar with that topic may want to jump ahead to Part III, where he begins his focus on Operation Protective Edge in earnest. However, the Goldstone Report is directly relevant, because it boosted what Dershowitz rightly calls Hamas's "dead baby strategy"--i.e. try to kill Israeli babies while using Palestinian babies as human shields, knowing that the international media will invariably provide coverage that portrays Israel's responses in the most unfavorable light.
One other small point is worth emphasizing: Dershowitz notes, in his introduction to the history of the conflict, that the Hamas rockets attacks began in October 2001, right after President George W. Bush (yes, Bush!) offered the first formal American support for Palestinian statehood. The entire history of Israel's wars of self-defense in Gaza needs to be read with that fact in mind. Palestinians rejected statehood even when it was offered by the U.S.A. (never mind Israel) and chose to attack Israeli civilians instead. Occupation is not, and has never been, the problem.
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Dr. Jack Kushner
4.0 out of 5 stars I strongly recommend this book for anyone interested in world events and ...Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2014
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Dershowitz is one of the strongest advocates for Israel. The book is very well written and the points are relevant and cogent. I strongly recommend this book for anyone interested in world events and history.
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ROBERTO
3.0 out of 5 stars Timely &RelavantReviewed in the United States on November 24, 2014
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I enjoyed historical background information. It was a quick read, not boring. I especially liked how up to date regarding recent timely happenings were discussed by the author. Certain information was repeated over and over again and that subtracted from my overall interest.
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Andrew A. Goldman
5.0 out of 5 stars a terrific collections of pithy relevant essays on the important subject of Isrel's continued existence in a hostile worldReviewed in the United States on September 20, 2014
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I believe that Israel has the right to defend itself from those who seek randomly to kill Israelis because they are Jews and to obliterate the state of Israel. That doesn’t obligate me to support all policy decisions and actions of the government of Israel. But it leads me to support actions necessary to support the security of Israel.
Alan Dershowitz has written and compiled a timely primer for those interested in the subject. It is divided into two parts. The first is a useful collection of his writings over the last few years that deal with the subject in various ways from the death of the Turkish nationals seeking to break the Gaza embargo to the utter failure of the Goldstone report to lay any claim to objectivity.
The second part of the book includes essays written since the unfortunate events of this past June wherein three Jewish youth were kidnapped and killed by Hamas. Professor Dershowitz makes (to me) the irrefutable arguments about culpability between those who encourage attacks to kill civilians (Hamas) and those who would go to great lengths to avoid collateral damage to civilians put in harm’s way as a deliberate and successful policy by Hamas (Israel).
Dershowitz’s penultimate chapter includes a debate with John Dugard, former dean of the South African law school, Witwatersrand, and past chairman of the United Nations Commission investigating human rights in Palestine and judge on the United Nations International Court of Justice. He is widely regarded as the world’s most distinguished accuser against Israel.
Dershowitz’s willingness to allow Dugard to frame the arguments against Israel allows the reader to to see both sides of the discussion and conclude for him or her self wherein lie the merits.
This useful book will help anybody not fully immersed in the subject to participate knowingly and trenchantly on the side of Israel’s continued existence. It is a wonder that Professor Dershowitz has been able to get this important book into print so quickly when it is so badly needed.
A must read!
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PA
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Assessments and Need To Know History, Particularly Right NowReviewed in the United States on November 12, 2023
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While Mr. Dershowitz' book covers events primarily from 2000 through 2015, the magnification and repetition of prior history in present events is stunning. I did not know the history of Gaza and the West Bank, and Mr. Dershowitz clearly lays it out. That Arafat rejected a most generous offer from the Israeli PM which would have funded $30 billion to build the Palestine economy, and chose to continue terror, is shocking to me but probably not to those who've lived through it all.
There are too many eye opening points to mention here. This is a must read.
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David Schiff
5.0 out of 5 stars as Dershowitz suggests - stay tuned for the next round with HamasReviewed in Canada on November 9, 2014
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Well written , with absolutely correct reporting of of events ,as I am sure that professor Dershowitz followed the events,in real time and in the context of recent history.
Sadly , I have no doubt that he is listened to , by "the converted". Dershowitz's narrative is succinct logical and very good read and would be tremendous value to the reader with an open mind . However even this great narrative of recent history has no chance against the malignant cancer of visceral antisemitism that is 2000 years old . Israel must remain strong and resilient as its " friends " moral ,political and economic power frays.
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Noel
5.0 out of 5 stars gave a good insight into the current happenings in Israel and the ...Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 19, 2014
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Riveting reading ... gave a good insight into the current happenings in Israel and the conflict in Gaza. Quite an eyeopener
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WJD
5.0 out of 5 stars A first hand account that's worth readingReviewed in Canada on November 16, 2014
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Dershowitz is a good writer. This is an engaging story if how the tunnels threaten Israel. They're very well buiĺt and designed for ling term use. The tunnels don't get the coverage they deserve in the Western press. They are sophisticated beyound imagining, with sleeping quarters, first aid stations, marshalling areas and on, and on. I admit I'm already in Isreal's favour, and this book merely adds to my support for Israel. This is a good read, and hepful as well.
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derek everitt
4.0 out of 5 stars Four StarsReviewed in the United Kingdom on December 30, 2014
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Good solid read.
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ordinary customer - will buy from wherever!
4.0 out of 5 stars All this needs to be repeated, fully documented and ...Reviewed in Canada on October 12, 2014
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All this needs to be repeated, fully documented and made a media mandate for all networks in America and NATO countries of Europe. The UN should be moved to.... um Bejing!
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