Defending Israel

World-renowned lawyer Alan Dershowitz recounts stories from his many years of defending the state of Israel. Alan Dershowitz has spent years advocating for his "most challenging client"-the state of Israel-both publicly and in private meetings with high level international figures, including every US president and Israeli leader of the past 40 years. Replete with personal insights and unreported details, Defending Israel offers a comprehensive history of modern Israel from the perspective of one of the country's most important supporters. Readers are given a rare front row seat to the high profile controversies and debates that Dershowitz was involved in over the years, even as the political tides shifted and the liberal community became increasingly critical of Israeli policies.Beyond documenting America's changing attitude toward the country, Defending Israel serves as an updated defense of the Jewish homeland on numerous points-though it also includes Dershowitz's criticisms of Israeli decisions and policies that he believes to be unwise. At a time when Jewish Americans as a whole are increasingly uncertain as to who supports Israel and who doesn't, there is no better book to turn to for answers-and a pragmatic look toward the future.

Introduction: The Endless Battle1: From Palestine to Israel: My Earliest Memories of Zionism2: Israel's Quiet Period-and Mine3: Six-Day War: The Making of an Israel Defender4: The PR War on Israel Begins5: Chomsky Attacks Israel on Civil Liberties6: The Hard Left Denies Israel's Right to Exist7: Likud and the Liberals: Israel Moves to the Right8: Debating Extremists Left and Right: Vanessa Redgrave and Meir Kahane9: Oslo and the Murder of Rabin10: Clinton and Barak: Palestinians Reject Peace, and the Birth of BDS11: Sharon and Bush: Partners in the War on Terror12: Olmert Attacks Syrian Nuclear Reactor, Offers Peace13: Obama and Netanyahu Disagree on Iran and Jerusalem14: Trump and Netanyahu Agree on Iran and Jerusalem15: The New Anti-Semitism: Taking the Fight to Campus and CongressConclusion: Israel-The Next 70 Years