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Review: Israel on Trial
(Washington Free Beacon) Prof. Eugene Kontorovich - Israel on Trial: Examining the History, the Evidence, and the Law, by Roy K. Altman, a federal judge in Miami, rebuts the six claims he has most often encountered that aim to undermine the Jewish state. It challenges the claim that Israel is an illegitimate "settler colonial project" and focuses on Israel's supposed conduct. He provides excellent distillations of the abundant archaeological evidence for Jews' indigeneity in the Land of Israel and also shows how this has not impeded their willingness to make repeated territorial concessions in the name of peace, detailing six occasions on which the Jews agreed to the creation of a Palestinian state, only to have the Arabs reject it. He notes that "if anyone has colonized the Land of Israel, it has been [a] succession of Muslim armies." Israel's purported genocide consists of not preventing all civilian casualties while fighting a lawful war of self-defense against an enemy that purposefully puts civilians in the line of fire, and inflates their casualty statistics if, due to Israel's extraordinary precautions, not enough of them are killed. Jews are falsely accused of genocide for not allowing their own genocide. The writer is a professor at George Mason University Law School.