Among the greatest intellectual heroes of modern times; Raphael Lemkin lived an extraordinary life of struggle and hardship; yet altered international law and redefined the world’s understanding of group rights. He invented the concept and word “genocide†and propelled the idea into international legal status. An uncommonly creative pioneer in ethical thought; he twice was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful. I recommend this to anyone who wants to get a clearer ...By CustomerThis volume is fascinating. It tells the truth about what the Arabs did to their own people. The propaganda that the Palestinians have put out for the past few decades is proven to be just that: Propaganda.I recommend this to anyone who wants to get a clearer understanding of the problem in the Middle East and what the Arabs call the Nakba. They did it to themselves and this book proves it.Israel is now being condemned simply for BEING. They're told that they have to make peace with a terrorist group; Hamas. Hamas does NOT want peace with Israel; they want the total elimination of Israel and want to kill Jews wherever they are. How is anyone supposed to make peace with a group like that?Wired3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. An easy read.By SammyKarsh covers a lot of the same territory; I've previously encountered. I compared his accounts of the Israel Independence War against Morris's"1948." Unlike Morris; Karsh isn't give to to a a lot of "no doubts" and "probablies" to substitute for substance and proof. His title indicates that "Palestine's" Arabic speaking farmers were abandoned by their leaders;their educated business class who chose to depart and relocate to Cairo and Beirut (and are non the less deemed "refugees;") before partition; and by the surrounding Arab countries before the war and the invasion of Israel began and had reason prevailed they'd still be in the pre '48 villages. His thesis is that there was a willingness on the part of Arabs to live and let live in the two states as formulated by the UN. Since the leftist stridently and virulently anti Zionist narrative is now given like Moses receiving the Ten Commandments; anyone who wants a less vile and less propagandistic understanding of the circumstances that led totodays Hamassstan jihadi horror; and the general impasse and the repugnant and racist pogroms in Paris and elsewhere and the vile; racist "BDS" movement I encourage you to read this book. He's easy to ready unlike the convoluted and arcane blathering of someone like Said.3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. I liked this book.By BentennesseeGreat book. I read this book immediately after reading My Promised Land; which I also enjoyed but led me to seek other perspectives regarding the mass exodus of Palestinean Arabs leading up to the 1948 war; particularly from Lydda. This book puts this exodus in historical context with many citations; which I felt were minimal from the Shavit book. We learn about the conflicting goals; power struggles and ineptitude displayed within the Arab leadership decades prior to and leading up to 1948; and how they lay the groundwork for this stunning military victory. If you are looking to better understand the rationale for what is happening in Israel today; I suggest this book.
