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In just one month, the number of innocent Arab victims surpassed the number of innocent Jewish victims.
Ari Shavit • My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
Israelis saw the unraveling of the Arab states created by Westerners and wondered why the West would want to make another artificial state run by a corrupt, nonelected regime. They watched Mahmoud Abbas name public squares after suicide bombers and extol the murderers of innocent Israelis. Americans traumatized by the jihadist bombers who killed fo
... See moreMichael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
It was a profound national crisis; Begin established the Kahan Commission to determine whether Israel was responsible for the massacre.
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
affected not only Israel, for the PLO essentially invented international terrorism and thus left…
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Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
Most Jewish murderers were members of fringe terrorist groups who defied the policy and instructions of the elected leadership of the Jewish community in Palestine.
Ari Shavit • My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
“What have you done to us?” Ben-Gurion shouted. “You, the nations who love freedom and justice, the fighters for democracy, liberty, equality, socialism? What have you done to the Jewish people as you stand before the endless, unceasing flow of our blood, without lifting a finger, without offering help, without commanding the killer, in language he
... See moreTom Segev • A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion
Educated Decisions
Löwy Juval • Righting Software
By 1967, the Jewish state had survived an onslaught of unrelenting attacks, had absorbed over a million immigrants,1 had emerged as
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
Those who take risks for peace are all too often assassinated – among them Lincoln, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Anwar el-Sadat and Yitzhak Rabin.