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Article: Existence, At Least.(Right to Exist: A Moral Defense of Israel's Wars)(The Case for Israel)(Book Review)
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- National Review
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- October 13, 2003
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Right to Exist: A Moral Defense of Israel's Wars, by Yaacov Lozowick (Doubleday, 336 pp., $26)
The Case for Israel, by Alan Dershowitz (Wiley, 264 pp., $19.95)
Nations are often called upon to defend their policies, and sometimes even their history, but few need justify their existence. Nevertheless, Israel has been mired in this thankless task for the past 55 years. Not only has its right to exist been questioned, it has been accused of a multitude of international crimes, including colonialism and genocide. The Jewish state has been cast as the world's leading human-rights violator, charged -- in a cruel twist of history -- with using Nazi- like ...