Review - Michael Neumann’s “The Case Against Israel”

Neumann makes the case for a two state solution in The Case Against Israel, 2006. Give this review a read. Buy the book. Argue about it (for it, against it …). Send me your arguments and I’ll post them here.

Excerpts:

“The book’s title should not mislead readers. Those who follow the horrific tribulations of that small real estate with its strategic and religious confluences will obviously recognize that the title is a play on, or a response to, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz’s The Case for Israel (John Wiley & Sons, August 2003). The argumentation is by and large a refutation of Dershowitz’s case though it is not a point-by-point rebuttal of the 32 questions Dershowitz attempted (poorly) to answer. In actuality, Dershowitz is only mentioned once in the entire book. Instead of rebutting a lawyerly discourse based on polemical diatribes, crass emotionalism, and the repetitive regurgitation of falsities, Michael Neumann focuses on what has been lost in our recent historical travails: reality-based analysis — historical facts, formal logic, ethics, behavioral rationality, philosophy, morality, and politics …”

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