Wars are generally fought for borders, for land, for political power, ideology or natural resources. The Arab war against Israel is different- it is a war of extermination. It's aim is to destroy Israel, and to expell or anihilate all of her Jews. Written in 1977, this book by Alvin Rosenfeld lays bare both the hate and the sinister and ingenious connivance of the Arab world to isolate and then completely destroy the State of Israel. The author lays down the bottom line and reminds us that there are 340 million Arabs (at the time of writing the author cites the figures of 150 million), massed against five million souls (by the author's 1977 figures then, 3 million). The 340 milllion are determined to ensure that the 5 million perish. Elementary decency would demand that we try to ensure that both the 340 million and the 5 million survive, but in order to do this we need to examine the words and deeds of those Arabs determined to see the elimination of Israel's five million Jews. The author covers the vote by the UN General Assembly on November 10, 1975, to equate Zionism with 'racism', 27 years after the UN voted to allow the re-establishment of the Jewish State on a small section of the Levant.The resolution was pushed by the Arab and Communist Blocs, and many votes of Third World countries were bought off by Arab oil. Three days after the vote the PLO planted a bomb in Zion Square in Jerusalem, killing seven teenagers and wounding and maiming scores of other Jews. This is an example of how moral denigration encourages physical elimination. Although Arab terrorists were shooting, bombing , bludgeoning and knifing Israeli women and children, long before the international Left decided to label Israel as 'racists' and now as 'Nazis'. But this certainly pours fuel onto the fire of hatred of the Israeli people, and causes countless deaths. Not only do the rabid anti-Zionists who boycott and demonize Israel display gross and racist anti-Semitism , but they also responsible to a large extent for terror against Israeli women and children. It is entirely in keeping in the character of Islamists or rabidly leftist anti-Zionists that they should carry a rabid hatred of Israel to the point of defending the killers of Israeli children. The same way, that the demonization of Jews by Hitler Goebbels and Der Sterner laid the way for the holocaust, I believe that the purpose of anti-Zionist propaganda is to pave the way for the genocide of Israel Jews. The author pulls no punches in quoting the Arab leaders and their outright calls fo mass murder and genocide. He also clearly details some of the atrocities carried out by the Arabs, such as the torture and cold-blooded murder of hundreds of captured Israeli soldiers by the Syrians during the Six Day War. The author quotes Nasr Al-Din al-Nashashibi, scion of a prominent and wealthy Palestinian family, in 1962: "I shall see the hatred in the eyes of my sons. I shall see how they take revenge. If they do not kn
not much has changed
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
This book could have been written today and it would still be very relevant, simply because nothing has changed except that now the leftist media has completely sold itself out to the Arabs. the previous reviewer claims the book is unfair because it refers to the Arabs in question as devious in character. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then guess what? IT'S A FREAKIN DUCK!!!!
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