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Alan Dershowitz • The Case for Israel
He had a plan for how to turn a public relations disaster and a crime against the Palestinian people into a public relations bonanza. It was a tried-and-true plan; it worked even more effectively this time than it had in the past.
Alan Dershowitz • The Case for Israel
millions of people can believe a totally false accusation.
Alan Dershowitz • The Case for Israel

Advocates often play games with the demographics in order to support their agenda-driven conclusions. In estimating the Arab population of Palestine at the time of the U.N. partition of 1947, advocates of the Arab cause sometimes include the population of what is now Jordan, as well as what is now the West Bank and Gaza. In assessing the fairness o
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Moreover, the concept of collective accountability for terrorism that is widely supported by the vast majority of Palestinians and their leadership is entirely consistent with law and morality.
Alan Dershowitz • The Case for Israel
made a remarkable decision to change the definition of refugee—only for purposes of defining who is an Arab refugee from Israel—to include any Arab who had lived in Israel for two years before leaving.41 Moreover, an Arab was counted as a refugee if he moved just a few miles from one part of Palestine to another—even if he returned to the village i
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This is so because the case against Israel currently being made on university campuses, in the media, and throughout the world relies on willful distortions of the historical record, beginning with the first arrival of Europeans in Palestine near the end of the nineteenth century and continuing throughout the U.N. partition, the establishment of th
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This would plainly have satisfied Security Council Resolution 242, which mandated return of “territories,” not all territories, captured in Israel’s defensive war with Jordan. Few, if any, Palestinian people would remain under Israeli occupation.